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The Benefits of Virtual Reality in Banking

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For example, it can be used to teach young adults about financial responsibility. Saatchi & Saatchi Sri Lanka , for example, made a virtual reality campaign for Hatton National Bank in 2015. High-resolution imagery and low-latency head-tracking brought people into a virtual environment.

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HTC Announces Vive Flow, a Compact VR Headset Focused on Casual Entertainment & Wellbeing

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Tracking & Input. The headset supports 6DOF head-tracking and users can pair an Android phone to be used as a 3DOF controller (head-based pointing can be used as a fallback). Hand-tracking won’t be supported at launch, though it may come in a future update. Image courtesy HTC.

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Watch: Tobii Tease Unnervingly Effective Vive Eye-Tracked VR Demo Ahead of GDC

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We wrote just today that eye-tracking used inside virtual reality headsets, used to detect the gaze of the user, could play an extremely important part in making more realistic VR scenes at higher resolutions possible through the use of foveated rendering, but eye-tracking has important implications for a more human aspect of virtual reality.

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‘Hallelujah’ Experience Bridges Gap Between 360 Video And VR

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As entertaining as they can be however, most examples of the still-budding medium lack many of the features that add the extra level of immersion shown by more advanced VR experiences. They’re simple to access, easy to watch and plentiful.

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How Does VR Create the Illusion of Reality?

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Specifically, why do virtual environment in VR look more “real” compared to when viewed via other media, for example panoramic video? Most attempts to answer it fall back on technical aspects, such as stereoscopy, head tracking, etc., 4:36 — Handling user movement, or: why head tracking is necessary.

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XR Today’s Guide to Stopping VR Motion Sickness

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VRCs avoid sickness by reviewing refresh rates, head-tracked graphics, render scaling, headset positional tracking, multiple locomotion styles, and head-tracked user interfaces (UI). Meta Platforms ensures that each of its officially distributed Quest experiences passes a series of virtual reality checks (VRC).

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Latest Lumus Waveguide Shows Retina Resolution & 50° FOV in AR Glasses Form-factor

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In theory, that means if you were holding an augmented reality book in front of you at a normal distance, you’d easily be able to make out the letters on the page (assuming the image processing pipeline applied during head tracking doesn’t sacrifice any clarity).

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