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Set-up Instructions for Vrui with HTC Vive Head-mounted Display

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If you use a Linux distribution that is not Ubuntu-based, such as my own favorite, Fedora , or another desktop environment such as Gnome Shell or Cinnamon , you will have to make some adjustments throughout the rest of this guide. Installing Vrui. OpenVRHost: Tracked device with serial number LHR-CCB9BBDB is now connected.

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MR Headsets: XR Today Expert Round Table

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In 2023, we may see the exploration of new battery materials and evolving support of connections to high-bandwidth, low-latency networks like telco 5G to reduce compute and power needed on the actual head-mounted display. RTX also enables real-time physics, which enhances interactions between objects in virtual environments.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

AR Insider

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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Report: Using Extended Reality in Healthcare

Tech Trends VR

xR technologies come in two major forms: virtual reality (VR) in which the learner is immersed in a completely new virtual environment and augmented reality (AR) in which the learner is in a combined real and virtual environment where digital information is overlaid onto the learner’s field of view.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, David Em made strides in the creation of explorable virtual landscapes, while the Ames Research Center iterated on VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). The company believed it had purchased a front row seat to the future.

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Exploring the Vast Worlds of Immersive Entertainment, with The Stinger Report’s Kevin Williams

XR for Business Podcast

There’s an issue here in our industry that we have a concern about putting head-mounted displays and glasses on people’s heads if you’re dealing with thousands of guests. Do you want to have a head-mounted display, or would you rather have the images projected onto the surface you can interact with?

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Exploring the Vast Worlds of Immersive Entertainment, with The Stinger Report’s Kevin Williams

XR for Business Podcast

There’s an issue here in our industry that we have a concern about putting head-mounted displays and glasses on people’s heads if you’re dealing with thousands of guests. Do you want to have a head-mounted display, or would you rather have the images projected onto the surface you can interact with?