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What’s The Deal With The HTC Vive Air?

VRScout

The breathable and quick-drying fabrics improve ventilation in the heated exercise. The innovative lightweight structure allows users to forget the presence of the head-mounted display to focus on virtual content. The quick-release design allows the removal of ergonomic soft components for washing.”

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Update: Fitness-focused ‘HTC Vive Air’ Is Just a Concept

Road to VR

The breathable and quick-drying fabrics improve ventilation in the heated exercise. The innovative lightweight structure allows users to forget the presence of the head-mounted display to focus on virtual content. The quick-release design allows the removal of ergonomic soft components for washing.

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How Virtual Reality Can Assist the Elderly

VRScout

Most premium handsets are the compatible device for head-mounted displays as they offer powerful features that enable high-definition VR apps to run. VR For Exercising. Virtual reality doesn’t only offer brain exercise, but also helps them become motivated to exercise.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

Compared to the above exercise, there are fewer assumptions required for the portion of the ramp-up that’s attributable to spatial. Even fewer assumptions are required in evaluating the fact that the majority of those 169 filings are in the ‘Heads-Up Displays’ sub-category — a catch all for headworn AR and VR hardware.

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Apple Revives AR Smart Glasses Push with New Patent

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

According to filings with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPO) last week, the Cupertino-based firm has outlined plans for a head-mounted display (HMD). With it, the company could use its digital crown feature to display notifications and images, listen to music, and others.

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Happy New Year

VR Playhouse

More people will own HMDs (Head Mounted Displays). Exercise 3x/week. We buckle our seat belts in anticipation of 2015. What we can expect from VR this year: Increased interest in virtual reality worldwide. Major growth in VR content, which will provide the education on what thrills and what doesn’t inside the headset.

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For Science!

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Fancy virtual environments are left as an exercise for the reader. Now, a confession: While I have uncountable many-hour sessions in screen-based VR under my belt, this was the longest time I’ve ever worn a head-mounted display (almost) continuously, by far, and it was a bit of a chore.