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Design and development of a portable virtual reality headset

23 Mar 2016-pp 15

TL;DR: The design and the development of hardware and software of a portable Virtual Reality Headset is described using a small credit-card sized, yet a powerful computer, Raspberry Pi®.

AbstractThis paper describes the design and the development of hardware and software of a portable Virtual Reality Headset. The portability of the device is achieved using a small credit-card sized, yet a powerful computer, Raspberry Pi®. It is responsible for the execution of the main software and display of the rendered images on the screen. The Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) present in the device tracks the user's head movements and communicates with Raspberry Pi using the Arduino® platform. This technology focuses on developing a dedicated hardware platform for the Virtual Reality purposes. Throughout the design phase of the project, cost was kept minimal without compromising on the performance of the system.

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TL;DR: The Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications as mentioned in this paper provides a comprehensive set of contributed articles that address the principles required to define system requirements and design, build, evaluate, implement, and manage the effective use of VE applications.
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