XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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. BCI might seem like new-fangled tech, but research has been in the works for longer than you might expect.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. This new industrial-grade system offers the most realistic haptics experience to date. It marks the first commercial availability of our industry-leading microfluidic haptic technology platform.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

More recently, I had the opportunity to try the Ghostbusters experience at the VOID in Utah. Included in this rig is what’s known as a haptic vest which vibrates in the appropriate places when you get hit by objects thrown by the ghosts you’re trying to subdue. William: “Are you real?” Angela: “Well, if you can’t tell, does it matter?”

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

For example, there’s a piece at the beginning, where you can pick up a gun as the start of your mission, and there’s a physical gun in front of you, as well as being in the VR experience — the way that the physical world and the virtual world have been meshed and embedded together is mind-blowingly powerful.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

For example, there’s a piece at the beginning, where you can pick up a gun as the start of your mission, and there’s a physical gun in front of you, as well as being in the VR experience — the way that the physical world and the virtual world have been meshed and embedded together is mind-blowingly powerful.

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