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What’s The Deal With The HTC Vive Air?

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Four onboard cameras allow for inside-out tracking, removing the need for external trackers, such as ones used for the HTC Vive and original Oculus Rift respectively. The breathable and quick-drying fabrics improve ventilation in the heated exercise. Image Credit: IF Design. ” Sounds great, right?

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

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The breathable and quick-drying fabrics improve ventilation in the heated exercise. The innovative lightweight structure allows users to forget the presence of the head-mounted display to focus on virtual content. The quick-release design allows the removal of ergonomic soft components for washing.

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Palmer Luckey's Anduril Is Taking Over The US Army IVAS Program, Replacing HoloLens

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Luckey founded Anduril Industries after Facebook fired him from Oculus , the previous company he founded which became Meta's Reality Labs division. I am, after all, the best head-mounted-display designer in the world. I can hardly believe I managed to pull it off.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

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More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending. Where it gets more interesting is panning back to a longer time period in which R&D efforts had time to gear up, including Oculus Reality Labs in Seattle, led by Michael Abrash.

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Why we should care about ergonomics in virtual reality

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Examples of head measurements (Image by Rob Cole). Other examples are scuba diving masks or full-face motorcycle helmets, although neither of these have the added complication of housing a head-mounted display that relies on a good fit for the correct optical presentation of the display to the eyes.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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But despite the option to “jack in” in the distant future, plenty of people will still opt to use the treadmill and haptics combo for the exercise benefits. Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus.

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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. I’ve been busy finalizing the upcoming 4.0