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Ever wondered what all those techie words and acronyms actual mean?... well you're in the right place to find out! We have an extensive list of the most common tech words used in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)
Your avatar is a virtual representation of yourself in a game. These are often customisable and can be anything from humdrum cannon fodder to fantastical creatures.
This is short for motion capture, the process of transferring people’s physical movements into information that can be used to animate characters in video games and films.
Untethered headsets are standalone devices - they are completely wireless. Though they aren’t yet as powerful as tethered head-mounted displays (HMDs), they do allow for greater freedom of movement. The Oculus Quest is an untethered headset.
A headset is tethered when it needs to be connected to a powerful gaming computer to work. They often use external sensors for tracking. The Valve Index is a tethered headset.
This is a measure of how many times per second that a display can update its frame buffer, which contains information on all of the pixels in a frame. This isn’t to be confused with the frame rate, as the refresh rate includes all the instances that the same frame is created.
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