Full slide notes can be seen at: http://vrguy.blogspot.com/2014/04/ieee-vr-presentation-next-technical.html The annual IEEE conference on virtual reality took place in Minneapolis at the end of Mar 2014. It was a unique opportunity to meet some of the leading VR researchers in the world, to showcase new product innovations and to exchange views on the present and future of VR. I had the pleasure of sharing the stage in "the battle of the HMDs" panel session at the conference, together with David A Smith, Chief Innovation Officer for Lockheed Martin, Stephen Ellis who leads the Advanced Displays and Spatial Perception Laboratory at NASA and Dr. Jason Jerald of NextGen Interactions. Below are a (slightly edited) version of my slide and a free-form version of the accompanying text. The audience was primarily VR researchers, so if one thinks of "R&D" as "Research and Development", this talk was aimed more at the research side then the development side.

1. The Next Technical
Frontiers for HMDs
Yuval Boger, CEO
www.vrguy.net
Full slide notes at:
http://vrguy.blogspot.com/2014/04/ieee-vr-presentation-next-technical.html
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2. The HMD Value Pyramid
Context
Sensing
Baseline
Technology
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3. Baseline VR/AR Technology
Optics Display Ergonomics
Wireless
video
Processing
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4. Sensing
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5. Context
• Context turns data from multiple
sensors into information
• Examples:
• Compound gestures
• Proximity to objects, people
• Activity: walking, excited
• Facial expressions
• Emotional state
Source: Microsoft patent filing
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