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Future VR Haptics May Use Chemicals on the Skin to Make You Feel

GizModo VR

As a potential way to simulate a human’s ability to feel physical sensations, researchers have developed haptic VR hardware that applies chemicals to your skin to trigger… Read more. Virtual reality experiences are never going to feel like the real world until we’re able to engage all of our senses, not just vision and hearing.

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Exclusive: How NVIDIA Research is Reinventing the Display Pipeline for the Future of VR, Part 1

Road to VR

Our innovation on virtual experiences includes technologies that you’ve probably heard a bit about already, such as foveated rendering, varifocal optics, holography, and light fields. The renderer uses an algorithm called ‘path tracing’ that photo-realistically simulates light in the virtual scene.

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Innovation: XR Today Expert Round Table

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Manufacturers, first responders, retailers, and educators employ XR hardware and software to create positive impacts for users and their clients. These “consumers and enterprise teams” in the genre use systems of systems to provide value with XR via phones, tablets, computers, heads-up displays (HUD) systems, or holography.

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