The Butterfly Trackers operate on inertial measurement units, translating small changes in orientation and acceleration into precise movement data. Unlike optical tracking systems, which depend on ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a wearable with batlike sonar that could improve upper-body tracking in virtual reality and other applications. The Cornell team fitted a generic pair ...

MMORPGs and Virtual Reality games have one major thing in common: they transport us to new worlds. VR does this by tricking yourself that you are physically in a new space, while MMORPGs do it through ...

Incorporating eye-tracking into virtual reality (VR) allows researchers to gain an insight into human behaviour, attention, and cognition within virtual spaces. Eye-tracking applications in VR are ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Bloomberg reports Apple’s headset is set to launch this spring with controls you can use without a handheld ...

New technologies are coming in virtual reality headsets, and terms are getting bandied about like everybody already knows what they are. Here are most of the terms you're hearing, and what they mean ...

Adding to the cost and complexity of VR has been the need for fixed external sensors to enable positional tracking. Oculus Rift uses one small sensor for human-scale tracking, while the Vive relies on ...