Future VR Technology

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A new virtual reality (VR) and  augmented reality (AR)  headset, named the “20|20” has been announced by Finnish company  Varjo , which until this point has been developing it clandestinely. The team, composed of individuals from Microsoft, Nokia, Intel, Nvidia, and Rovio, have developed a headset that “replicates how the human eye naturally works, creating a super-high-resolution image to the user’s gaze direction.” according to  the maker’s press release . It has 70 megapixels per eye — in comparison with the roughly 1.2 megapixels per eye of the Occulus Rift and HTC Vive. This will deliver a resolution, according to the press release, “more than 70X beyond any currently shipping or announced head-mounted display ( including Magic Leap ).” The headset will be on sale late this year. No press have, of yet, tried it — but  Sean O’Kane of The Verge   was given a demo by Urho Konttori, the CEO and co-founder of Varjo. The experience...

Virtual reality was imagined as a human simulation technology long before the most recent wave of innovation that brought us the Oculus RIFT and the wave of innovation that followed. Now, rendering high framerate graphics using multiple, stereoscopic points in virtual reality is matching the speed and accuracy of robotic sensors and cameras. By modeling physics, motion, and material interactions, virtual reality is poised to become a simulation tool for training automatons - robots, drones, and diagnostic gear - before they need to perform in the real world. That’s one small step for robotics, but it foretells a much bigger step forward for artificial intelligence. Russell Foltz-Smith Recent advancements point to a potentially disruptive combination of virtual reality and artificial intelligence which will unlock a future with safe and competent intelligent machines, able to learn exponentially through self training and intelligent, realistic simulations. Ongoing acad...

In what will be the first of many lengthy articles about  Destiny 2 , I’m ready to share my initial thoughts about the full release. I managed to snag early access yesterday morning, and forgoing work and sleep, I probably have 15 hours or so in already. That’s been enough to beat the central campaign and explore a number of the game’s other facets, and it’s time to share some early impressions, though obviously as we learned from  Destiny 1 , this is a series that requires a  lot  of time put in to get the “full” experience. Destiny 2  makes a hell of a first impression, and it’s very difficult to see the game as anything other than a massive improvement from vanilla launch, and also a step up from where we last left the game post- Rise of Iron  after three years. It’s been streamlined well, many of its weakness have been bolstered into strengths, and it remains just as fun as  Destiny 1  ever was to play, thanks to some post-beta dam...