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Global Virtual Reality Industry to Reach $7.2 Billion in Revenues in 2017

Road to VR

billion globally by the end of 2017, of which, head-mounted displays (HMDs) will account for $4.7 The report also offers disruptive trends to watch in 2017, such as: New VR headsets powered by Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system will spark demand by enterprise firms for VR-related hardware, software and services.

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Big XR News from Meta, Deloitte, Snap, and Virtuleap

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Next year, Apple will debut the Vision Pro following years of hype, and Microsoft will also start rolling out its industrial Metaverse services. One of the significant changes is the removal of Android and iOS notifications, which effectively separates Meta’s head-mounted displays (HMDs) from messages on smartphones and other devices.

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Attention Tracking Key to XR Research, CORTEXR Says

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Getting ‘On Track’: History and Study. Research agency Gorilla in the Room published a study in September, which showed attention data and metrics were scalable with headsets and their technologies and crucial to the immersive economy. Despite this, issues limit eye-tracking integration for some head-mounted displays.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

AR Insider

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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What is an Immersive Experience?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

With head-mounted displays, users can detach their senses of sound, sight, and space from their surroundings to fully ‘immerse’ in simulated, computer-generated realities. Studies have shown immersive VR training environments offer a 75 percent increase in retention rates than traditional training methods.

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Report: Using Extended Reality in Healthcare

Tech Trends VR

The goal is to use focused study and mental rehearsal to transfer fleeting and poorly represented knowledge from the prefrontal cortex to long-term memory stores in the hippocampus and associated medial temporal lobe structures. The prefrontal cortex is where working memory and attention reside.

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Hand and Eye-Tracking: XR Today Expert Round Table

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Under the hood of any quality virtual, augmented, or mixed reality head-mounted display (HMD) is a hand and eye tracking platform designed to run a human-computer interface (HCI) capable of seamlessly joining man with machine and delivering seamless immersive experiences.