{"id":144166,"date":"2022-08-16T00:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/researchers-find-way-to-shrink-a-vr-headset-down-to-normal-glasses-size"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:29:56","slug":"researchers-find-way-to-shrink-a-vr-headset-down-to-normal-glasses-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/researchers-find-way-to-shrink-a-vr-headset-down-to-normal-glasses-size","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find way to shrink a VR headset down to normal glasses size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dGzj-AgI6RI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ignore the ribbons, this is a very promising breakthrough for VR.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers from Stanford University and Nvidia have teamed up to help develop VR glasses that look a lot more like regular spectacles. Okay, they are rather silly looking due to the ribbons extended from either eye, but they\u2019re much, much flatter and compact than your usual goggle-like virtual reality headsets today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA major barrier to widespread adoption of VR technology, however, is the bulky form factor of existing VR displays and the discomfort associated with that,\u201d the research paper published at <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&mid=44270&u1=pcg-us-1176065191901962800&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.nvidia.com%2Fpublication%2F2022-08_holographic-glasses-virtual-reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\">Siggraph 2022<\/a> (opens in new tab) says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignore the ribbons, this is a very promising breakthrough for VR. Researchers from Stanford University and Nvidia have teamed up to help develop VR glasses that look a lot more like regular spectacles. Okay, they are rather silly looking due to the ribbons extended from either eye, but they\u2019re much, much flatter and compact than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144166","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}