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Report: Apple Racing to Build Software & Services for Upcoming Mixed Reality Headset

Road to VR

Apple TV : both immersive sports content and traditional video content – the latter presented in virtual environments, such as a desert or the sky. Apple Books : will allow users to read in virtual reality. Fitness+ : will let users exercise while watching an instructor in VR.

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The XR Eye & Hand Tracking Vendors for 2024

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. The Swedish company has produced a number of eye-tracking solutions, including the Tobii Pro Glasses 3.

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Why we should care about ergonomics in virtual reality

The Ghost Howls

As we move into the realm of immersive computing, the focus of the Ergonomist will shift from the desktop computing environment to the immersive computing environment which we access through virtual and augmented reality headsets. Hacking the Vive to customize it to the user’s face shape (Image by Rob Cole).

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial’s Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

For example, if I’m going through some sort of instruction or training exercise where my environment really matters, then we can understand why it might be important to jump into a VR headset and limit the distraction from the real environment around me, and replace it with an entirely virtual environment.

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial’s Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

For example, if I’m going through some sort of instruction or training exercise where my environment really matters, then we can understand why it might be important to jump into a VR headset and limit the distraction from the real environment around me, and replace it with an entirely virtual environment.

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial's Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

For example, if I'm going through some sort of instruction or training exercise where my environment really matters, then we can understand why it might be important to jump into a VR headset and limit the distraction from the real environment around me, and replace it with an entirely virtual environment.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: One of the tools that I think we’re just starting to see come online is eye tracking and motion tracking, where we’re really able to get data points about humans that we’ve never had before. And we challenge them with virtual environments, for example, to see how they react.