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How does Virtual Reality Work? The Ultimate Guide

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Have you ever wondered, “How does virtual reality work?” What components does a “virtual reality” experience need to be truly immersive? In recent years, the “virtual reality” world has evolved drastically. So, how does virtual reality work, and why is it such a significant tech evolution?

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6 Reasons to Buy Virtual Reality Headsets in 2024

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Virtual reality headsets have taken the world by storm in recent years. Manufacturing, healthcare, and even retail brands now use virtual reality to design products at speed, deliver excellent customer service, and empower collaboration. Initially, many headset vendors focused on the consumer landscape.

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The Best VR Gloves in 2024: Harnessing Haptic Feedback

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In the last few years, there’s been less hype around VR gloves and haptic accessories in the extended reality space. However, as the adoption of virtual reality grows in the business landscape for training, product development, and collaboration, this is beginning to change. What are VR Gloves and How Do They Work?

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

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HTC’s Marios Bikos: “The HTC VIVE Tracker allows you to not only track objects in VR (getting tracker pose in real-time) but also use the POGO pins to simulate input buttons (Grip/Trigger/Trackpad/Menu) as if you were using a Vive controller.”. The image below shows a layout of the pogo pins, with Pin.3 3 as the Grip button, Pin.4

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Immersive Technology Beyond Gaming: How Is It Changing Financial Services?

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Immersive technology has two main categories with varying levels of immersive experiences – virtual reality and augmented reality. VR offers full immersion by cutting out the physical world, while AR offers partial immersion by overlaying virtual elements in a real-world setting. Virtual Reality.

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7 Benefits of AR and VR for People With Disability

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There are now many applications of augmented reality and virtual reality for disabled persons. Virtual reality helps us travel to exotic places, even to alien worlds. This virtual reality experience includes day-to-day environments and situations. They find it awkward and overwhelming.

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The New Age of Learning Science with Virtual Reality: A Literature Review

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Virtual Reality: A New Age of Learning Science Virtual reality is not a new, hot-off-the-press concept. In fact, computational photography researcher, Steve Mann, invented “wearable computing” in 1980 (Interaction Design Foundation, 2019). Virtual reality has been a known concept for the past 32 years.