VR Headset With Custom Face Fitting Gets Even More Custom

The Bigscreen Beyond is a small and lightweight VR headset that in part achieves its small size and weight by requiring custom fitting based on a facial scan. [Val’s Virtuals] managed to impr…

VR Headset With HDMI Input Invites A New Kind Of Cyberdeck

Meta’s Quest VR headset recently got the ability to accept and display video over USB-C, and it’s started some gears turning in folks’ heads. [Ian Hamilton] put together a quick c…

Meta Cancels Augmented Reality Headset After Apple Vision Pro Falls Flat

The history of consumer technology is littered with things that came and went. For whatever reason, consumers never really adopted the tech, and it eventually dies. Some of those concepts seem to p…

Meta Doesn’t Allow Camera Access On VR Headsets, So Here’s A Workaround

The cameras at the front of Meta’s Quest VR headsets are off-limits to developers, but developer [Michael Gschwandtner] created a workaround (Linkedin post) and shared implementation details …

Robust Speech-to-Text, Running Locally On Quest VR Headset

[saurabhchalke] recently released whisper.unity, a Unity package that implements whisper locally on the Meta Quest 3 VR headset, bringing nearly real-time transcription of natural speech to the dev…

Re-imagining Telepresence With Humanoid Robots And VR Headsets

Don’t let the name of the Open-TeleVision project fool you; it’s a framework for improving telepresence and making robotic teleoperation far more intuitive than it otherwise would be. I…

Giving People An Owl-like Visual Field Via VR Feels Surprisingly Natural

We love hearing about a good experiment, and here’s a pretty neat one: researchers used a VR headset, an off-the-shelf VR360 camera, and some custom software to glue them together. The result…

Bats Can No Longer Haunt Apple VR Headsets Via Web Exploit

Bug reporting doesn’t usually have a lot of visuals. Not so with the visionOS bug [Ryan Pickren] found, which fills a user’s area with screeching bats after visiting a malicious website…

DIY Eye And Face Tracking For The Valve Index VR Headset

The Valve Index VR headset has been around for a few years now. It doesn’t come with eye or face tracking, but that didn’t stop inspired folks like [Physics-Dude] from adding DIY soluti…

A Master-Class On Reverse-Engineering Six AR Glasses

Augmented reality (AR) tech is getting more and more powerful, the glasses themselves are getting sleeker and prettier, and at some point, hackers have to conquer this frontier and extract as much …

Studie zur VR-Nutzung: Was Eltern besorgt – und worüber sie sich Sorgen machen sollten

Eltern sollten sich mehr Sorgen über die Nutzung von Virtual-Reality-Headsets ihrer Kinder machen. Das sagen zumindest Forscher.

Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works

One thing going slightly viral lately is footage of Disney’s “HoloTile” infinite floor, an experimental sort of 360° treadmill developed by [Lanny Smoot]. But how exactly does it …

Make 3D Scenes With A Holodeck-Like Voice Interface

The voice interface for the holodeck in Star Trek had users create objects by saying things like “create a table” and “now make it a metal table” and so forth, all with imme…

The BBC Micro, Lovingly Simulated In VR

The BBC Micro was many peoples’ first exposure to home computing, and thanks to [Dominic Pajak], you can fire up this beloved hardware in WebXR. Is it an emulator? Yes, but it’s also mu…

Virtual-Reality-Brillen: Meeting im Raumschiff

VR-Brillen sollen das nächste große Ding werden. Wie sie unsere Arbeit bereichern können und sich auf unsere sozialen Beziehungen auswirken.

Experiencing Visual Handicaps And Their Impact On Daily Life, With VR

Researchers presented an interesting project at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces: it uses VR and eye tracking to simulate visual deficits such as macular degenerat…

Apple Vision Pro’s Secret To Smooth Visuals? Subtly Substandard Optics

The displays inside the Apple Vision Pro have 3660 × 3200 pixels per eye, but veteran engineer [Karl Guttag]’s analysis of its subtly blurred optics reminds us that “resolution” d…

Aus dem All auf die Erde: ISS-Astronaut nutzt VR-Brille, um Natur zu erleben

Auf der Internationalen Raumstation gibt es hauptsächlich High-Tech-Equipment, mit dem die Astronauten dort arbeiten.