{"id":566604,"date":"2019-02-06T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&p=566604"},"modified":"2021-10-13T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:33:27","slug":"world-scale-vr","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/world-scale-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"World Scale VR"},"content":{"rendered":"
New Virtual Reality (VR) headsets will allow users to wander large environments using continuous inside-out optical tracking.\u00a0This technology opens up the opportunity to see applications spread over large spaces and time intervals, in a World Scale.\u00a0A user wearing an HMD, may decide to play a game over multiple rooms in their house or even outdoors, incorporating multiple players. In AR a group of workers may wander in a large space and share the same content (through HoloLens). To be able to do so, there is a need to incorporate the information of the real world, both affordances and targets, as well as obstacles and dangers, in a way that will be consistent with the presentation of the experience.<\/p>\n
A continuous sensing HMD, will also have an immense value for people of special needs. Ranging from learning locations of needed objects over time, to the better representation of the world (sharp contrast, zooming, audio enhancement, detection of possible dangers, such as approaching cars when an elderly person crossing a street, haptic display, and more).<\/p>\n
There are multiple challenges to World Scale VR, some are new and some become more important when in World Scale.<\/p>\n
A team of Microsoft researchers has joined efforts to explore the systems needed to enable World Scale VR and the new interaction paradigms from an HCI perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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