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Why we should care about ergonomics in virtual reality

The Ghost Howls

Examples of head measurements (Image by Rob Cole). Other examples are scuba diving masks or full-face motorcycle helmets, although neither of these have the added complication of housing a head-mounted display that relies on a good fit for the correct optical presentation of the display to the eyes.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. Future solutions will get rid of clunky wired headsets and move onto glasses that can project a high-definition image onto the eye, a la Magic Leap, and eventually contact lenses that contain tiny screens.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Of course, anybody who has a warehouse can be hugely benefited, because you take the functionality of that pad, the barcode, the RF gun, and you put it all in a head-mounted display. Magic Leap a lot of great people running off doing different things. Those are the kinds of apps that Magic Leap wants to enable.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Of course, anybody who has a warehouse can be hugely benefited, because you take the functionality of that pad, the barcode, the RF gun, and you put it all in a head-mounted display. Magic Leap a lot of great people running off doing different things. Those are the kinds of apps that Magic Leap wants to enable.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech. There's going to be definitely a gradual reveal here. Stefan: Yeah!

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech. There's going to be definitely a gradual reveal here. Stefan: Yeah!

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech. There's going to be definitely a gradual reveal here. Stefan: Yeah!

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