Questions tagged [virtual-reality]
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What vergence angle is commonly used for "infinitely far away" objects in stereoscopic displays?
I think that VR / AR experts will know the answer to this.
At what vergence angle are "infinitely far away" objects such as star field textures drawn in head-mounted VR / AR displays ?
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What stops the auto-generated 3D worlds of Google Earth Pro from being MUCH more detailed and accurate?
I'll admit it blew my mind when I first realized that you could actually enter a "first-person mode" in Google Earth Pro, and not just view the 3D maps from a floating camera in the air. But ...
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Calculate the position and rotation of a quad in 3d space given a 2d projection of that quad from a camera
I am trying to build a VR tracking system with a laptop webcam, and I have succeeded in identifying, and tracking paper markers I put in front of my webcam. For context I am using OpenCV with the ...
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Render Duplicate Miniature Scene Replica
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I am working on project for implementing and user test a World-in-Miniature (WIM) interface for VR. A WIM essentially is a replica of the scene the user is currently in, but in miniature.
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What methods/technologies to reduce required performance for virtual reality are there?
I'm interested in virtual reality, but according to some sources, less than 1% of computers in use today have the necessary performance to run modern VR games, granted many of them are not intended ...
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Real 3D interior room from 360 images
If I have 360 images of an interior room from all different angles, would it be possible with current 3D software technology to create a real 3D representation of that room, where the camera could ...
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OpenGL Framebuffer with multiple Depthbuffers inside
I am trying to put multiple depthbuffers into one Framebuffer.
I want to use VR and render both eyes at the same time:
that means, in the geometry stage I want to clone the incoming triangle to two ...
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Cloud based VR would be the future?
According to the following assumptions, I think Cloud based VR would be the future:
1) Real world scene rendering needs ray tracing or other complex computing graphics technologies. It needs a lot of ...
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Are non manifold meshes problematic for Virtual Reality?
A simple question. I know that non-manifold meshes are problematic for physics simulations, boolean operations, and 3D printing. I was wondering if they can be problematic for a virtual reality ...
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VR and frustum culling
When rendering VR ( stereo view ) environments, do you guys recommend just doing 2 frustum checks for determining what is to be drawn during the frustum culling pass or is there some other check that ...
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Where do computer graphic engineers look for job ads?
This is kind of a meta-question: We are a neuroscience lab looking for an engineer to develop virtual environments for experiments. Since it's not our usual field of job advertisement we do not know ...
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What is "Scanline Racing"
I've heard a lot of people working on VR talk about scanline racing and that it's supposed to help improve latency for motion-to-photon. However, it isn't clear to me how this can be done with OpenGL....
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What is the definition of "motion to photon" in VR?
The rough definition of "MTP" is clear. But the exact one is not. You can refer to these links:
What is Motion-To-Photon Latency? | chioka.in
Motion-to-photon latency | xinreality.com/wiki.
But from ...
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Rendering Crystal Clear 3D Text in VR
Would it be possible to make text significantly more legible in VR? I know there are hardware limitations, but are there hanging fruit techniques that aren't being employed in 3D that are in 2D (...
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How can I intercept and filter all frames coming out of SteamVR?
I'm trying to investigate the effect of certain image operations on how VR scenes are perceived. To do this, I'd like to run an off-the-shelf SteamVR application, capture the frames as they come out ...
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