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Comprehensive Glossary of the Most Frequently Used VR Terms

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See Also: The Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Terms You Need to Know. We compiled a list of frequently used terms that are most likely to appear in: VR head-mounted display specifications; Game descriptions; Articles about VR technology ; Instructions for setting up your computer for VR experiences. Eye Tracking.

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Virtual Reality vs Augmented Reality: Understanding 6 Key Differences

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The degree of immersion in virtual reality vs augmented reality. In VR, the user is completely absorbed in a virtual environment and minimises boundaries and markers. The user must their adjust the lenses with eye-tracking technologies, depending on the unique movement of each eye.

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How Does VR Create the Illusion of Reality?

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actually come together to create realistic-looking virtual environments? Specifically, why do virtual environment in VR look more “real” compared to when viewed via other media, for example panoramic video? 4:36 — Handling user movement, or: why head tracking is necessary.

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Why we should care about ergonomics in virtual reality

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Examples of head measurements (Image by Rob Cole). Other examples are scuba diving masks or full-face motorcycle helmets, although neither of these have the added complication of housing a head-mounted display that relies on a good fit for the correct optical presentation of the display to the eyes.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

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Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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Hand and Eye-Tracking: XR Today Expert Round Table

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Under the hood of any quality virtual, augmented, or mixed reality head-mounted display (HMD) is a hand and eye tracking platform designed to run a human-computer interface (HCI) capable of seamlessly joining man with machine and delivering seamless immersive experiences.

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NVIDIA Turing Propels VR Toward Full Immersion

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Its ray-traced audio technology creates a physically realistic acoustic image of the virtual environment in real time. At SIGGRAPH, we demonstrated the integration of VRWorks Audio into NVIDIA Holodeck showing how the technology can create more realistic audio and speed up audio workflows when developing complex virtual environments.