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Comprehensive Glossary of the Most Frequently Used VR Terms

ARPost

Thus, we prepared for you this glossary which, we hope, will help you understand 100% of the information we share in our articles. This is a technology used by head-mounted displays (HMD) to determine the position of the user’s eyes versus their head. Head Mounted Display (HMD). Eye Tracking.

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Update: Fitness-focused ‘HTC Vive Air’ Is Just a Concept

Road to VR

The original article remains unaltered below for the sake of clarity. Original Article (8:30 AM ET): According to the page, the headset is called ‘Vive Air’ and is set to launch to consumers in Asia, Europe, and North America sometime this year.

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Accommodation and Vergence in Head-mounted Displays

Doc-Ok

These are another two (relates ones) of those frequently-asked questions about VR and head-mounted displays (HMDs) that I promised to address a while back. As explained in this article , the screens of all currently available VR headsets have a fixed optical distance, typically a few meters away from the user.

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The Display Resolution of Head-mounted Displays

Doc-Ok

What is the real, physical, display resolution of my VR headset? Using flat planes in 3D projective space yields a nice rendering trick , but that’s a topic for another article. While projection onto flat planes is inherent in 3D graphics, nobody said that the planes had to be flat in 3D affine space.

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Measuring the Effective Resolution of Head-mounted Displays

Doc-Ok

So, why do current-generation head-mounted displays appear so low-resolution? Take a look at the pictures I took in the article I already linked above. Here’s the short answer: In VR headsets, the screen is blown up to cover a much larger area of the user’s field of vision than in desktop settings.

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Nintendo Announces Labo VR Kit With Shareable Gaming Experiences

VRScout

To be perfectly honest, I don’t quite know how to start this article. Nintendo enters the VR industry in the most Nintendo way possible. I’m still a little shocked by the announcement myself. Then again, this is Nintendo, a company whose entire business model revolves around subverting the expectations of its fans.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.02.18): Ray-Ban Meta sold 2M devices, Meta may be working on humanoid robots, and more!

The Ghost Howls

My article about Android XR granting permissions for the camera frames has earned me mentions in important magazines like Road To VR , Upload VR , and Android Authority ! The article explores which applications they like the most (spoiler: its mostly fitness and social). Im back in Italy, tired but happy.