{"id":130482,"date":"2021-11-12T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T02:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/varjos-unique-masking-tool-lets-you-bring-the-real-world-into-vr"},"modified":"2021-11-12T18:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T02:22:38","slug":"varjos-unique-masking-tool-lets-you-bring-the-real-world-into-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/varjos-unique-masking-tool-lets-you-bring-the-real-world-into-vr","title":{"rendered":"Varjo\u2019s Unique Masking Tool Lets You Bring the Real World into VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/varjos-unique-masking-tool-lets-you-bring-the-real-world-into-vr3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Varjo\u2019s XR-3 headset has perhaps the best passthrough view of any MR headset on the market thanks to color cameras that offer a fairly high resolution and a wide field-of-view. But rather than just using the passthrough view for AR (bringing virtual objects into the real world) Varjo has developed a new tool to do the reverse (bringing real objects into the virtual world).<\/p>\n<p>At AWE 2021 this week I got my first glimpse at \u2018Varjo Lab Tools\u2019, a soon-to-be released software suite that will work with the company\u2019s XR-3 mixed reality headset. The tool allows users to trace arbitrary shapes that then become windows into the real world, while the rest of the view remains virtual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varjo\u2019s XR-3 headset has perhaps the best passthrough view of any MR headset on the market thanks to color cameras that offer a fairly high resolution and a wide field-of-view. But rather than just using the passthrough view for AR (bringing virtual objects into the real world) Varjo has developed a new tool to do [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}