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A brief history of VR and AR

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At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, David Em made strides in the creation of explorable virtual landscapes, while the Ames Research Center iterated on VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion.

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For Science!

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release of the Vrui VR toolkit (it looks like I will have full support for Oculus Rift DK2 just before it is obsoleted by the commercial version, haha), and needed a short break. Fancy virtual environments are left as an exercise for the reader. That was some serious Oculus face. No, there won’t be any pics.

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Keeping VR users from hurting themselves

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At its core, Chaperone is a combination user interface / software / API system that brings relevant parts of users’ physical environments into their virtual environments. The method of claim 1, wherein said location of said user is determined by continually monitoring the location of a portion of said head-mounted display.