Technologies and breakthrough news in vr hardware

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Technologies And Breakthrough News In VR Hardware Virtual Reality is spreading like fire in the forest which eventually results in the virtual reality news, breakthroughs and increase in the number of the hardware devices in the physical arena. The main focus right now of the researchers is on the hardware devices and technology to present the Virtual Reality hardware in a better form. There are many types of hardware that have already been developed or some have been used to make applications for the Virtual Reality platform. Let us discuss some of the Virtual Reality hardware technology in detail. Image Generators: Generation of Images consumes a lot of time. There are many vendors in the market which are selling image generator cards for computer level machines and most of them belong to i860 Intel processor family. Cards usually range starts from$2000 to $10,000. Control Devices: it is the main element that encourages the interaction inside the virtual World by tracking the position of some real time objects for example your head or hand. There are many methods prescribed to track and control the position. Latency is the problem being caused in position tracking. Conventional mouse, trackball and joystick are regarded as the simplest control hardware as these are two dimensional devices which can be used in programming for 6D control. For accurate and small Virtual Reality use Inertial Trackers have been developed. Stereo Vision: Stereo Vision is often included in the Virtual Reality system and is accomplished by developing two images, one for your each eye. There are many technologies behind it that can present those two images at a time. The images go through various Polaris filters. The anaglyph images use red and blue glasses to give no color stereovision. Head Mounted Display (HMD): It is the only hardware which is closely associated with Virtual Reality. There can be some helmet and goggles in which small video screen is placed inside them so that they can see the images designed by stereo version. Most HMD’s use two displays which provide stereoscopic imaging. There are many other technologies in the hardware section that have been developed or have been used in Virtual Reality. There will be a lot of news that will be following in the realm of Virtual Reality hardware.


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