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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. Oculus Rift powered the virtual experience. Moreover, virtual reality simplifies finance solutions for consumers.

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A Hands-On Review of AltspaceVR

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Users of the desktop app now had the option to sign in via a Microsoft account, but Steam users were largely unaffected, as would be Oculus users beginning in another two years. Although, because AltspaceVR avatars don’t have arms, sometimes hand tracking makes things a little more awkward. A headset also enables head tracking.

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Oculus Update Adds Room-scale ‘Guardian’ Feature, Async Spacewarp and User Reviews

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In readiness for the imminent launch of Oculus’ ‘Touch’ motion controllers, the company have rolled out the new ‘Guardian’ feature, their version of SteamVR’s Chaperone VR boundary system for room-scale VR. SEE ALSO Oculus Touch Will Support 360 and Room-scale Tracking With Extra Cameras.

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Qualcomm releases XR2 5G reference design, paving the way for the headsets of the future

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Today, instead, the XR2 reference design has been shown , and with it also some examples of possible AR and VR glasses based on it. Qualcomm also says for example how to design the device so that to handle the heating of the chipset in a proper way. It features two internal cameras, one for each eye to support eye tracking.

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

Road to VR

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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Hands-on: ‘iRacing’ Gets Initial Oculus Rift CV1 Support

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We ported the support from DX9 into our new DX11 engine which was a large rewrite, but we also had to rewrite other large portions of it to work with the latest Oculus SDK. The sense of scale is immediate, due to the seamless head tracking and excellent stereoscopic 3D. See Also: Top 5 Racing Sims for the Oculus Rift.

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Oculus Chief Scientist Predicts the Next 5 Years of VR Technology

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The annual presentation at Oculus Connect by Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, is always a highlight of the company’s annual developer event, projecting a forward-thinking and ever inspirational look at the future of virtual reality. Add virtual humans, and it becomes an equally powerful group working tool.