{"id":32251,"date":"2016-11-28T10:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T18:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/mits-new-method-of-radio-transmission-could-one-day-make-wireless-vr-a-reality"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:02:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:02:13","slug":"mits-new-method-of-radio-transmission-could-one-day-make-wireless-vr-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/mits-new-method-of-radio-transmission-could-one-day-make-wireless-vr-a-reality","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s new method of radio transmission could one day make wireless VR a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-new-method-of-radio-transmission-could-one-day-make-wireless-vr-a-reality.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to use one of today\u2019s major VR headsets, whether the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, or the PS VR, you have to accept the fact that there will be an illusion-shattering cable that tethers you to the small supercomputer that\u2019s powering your virtual world.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers from MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) may have a solution in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/enabling-wireless-virtual-reality-1114\">MoVr, a wireless virtual reality system<\/a>. Instead of using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to transmit data, the research team\u2019s MoVR system uses high-frequency millimeter wave radio to stream data from a computer to a headset wirelessly at dramatically faster speeds than traditional technology.<\/p>\n<p>There have been a variety of approaches to solving this problem already. Smartphone-based headsets such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/11\/18\/13670182\/how-google-daydream-view-vr-headset-was-made\">Google\u2019s Daydream View<\/a> and Samsung\u2019s Gear VR allow for untethered VR by simply offloading the computational work directly to a phone inside the headset. Or the entire idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2016\/11\/10\/13588864\/msi-vr-one-backpack-newegg-price-availability\">VR backpacks<\/a>, which allow for a more mobile VR experience by building a computer that\u2019s more easily carried. But there are still a lot of limitations to either of these solutions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2016\/11\/28\/13763912\/mit-radio-transmission-millimeter-wave-wireless-vr\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2016\/11\/28\/13763912\/m...ireless-vr<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to use one of today\u2019s major VR headsets, whether the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, or the PS VR, you have to accept the fact that there will be an illusion-shattering cable that tethers you to the small supercomputer that\u2019s powering your virtual world. But researchers from MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1512,6,44,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59647,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251\/revisions\/59647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}