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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

These headsets offer users cutting-edge technologies, often with 6 degrees of freedom, spatial audio , foveated rendering, and bespoke hand, face, and eye tracking for avatar movement and gaming. Manufacturers have also improved pixel densities and image sharpness using pancake lenses. The History of VR.

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Digital Frontier: Where Brain-computer Interfaces & AR/VR Could One Day Meet

Road to VR

In 1997, a bio engineering professor at the University of Utah named Dr. Richard Norman developed the ‘Utah Array’, an implant with 256 electrodes designed to rigidly attach to the brain. The headset has an eye-tracking based UI that sometimes feels like magic.

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