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  This virtual reality headset runs at human-eye resolution

  A flight simulator demo places the user inside a virtual cockpit. Looking around, it is possible to see all of the dials, switches and radar screens in realistic detail. When you look directly at a lever or button, you can even read the words written on it – something that VR usually struggles with.

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  Virtual reality as sharp as the human eye can see?

  Varjo has developed a prototype virtual reality (VR) headset that its makers claim gives an image 50 times sharper than most other headsets currently on the market.
  

  When I tested the prototype, the level of detail in the small central area of vision was certainly impressive – as close to the real thing as I’ve come across.

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  This startup wants to build VR headsets with ‘human eye-resolution’

  Earlier this month, Google virtual reality head Clay Bavor discussed the company’s efforts on a mind-boggling 20 megapixel screen that was currently under development. The screens would be a staggering 17x resolution improvement on displays in current generation VR systems like the Rift and Vive.

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  Has this stealth company solved vision-quality VR?

  When Urho Konttori handed me the VR headset, I almost laughed. The founder and CEO of some Finnish company I'd never heard of had just told me he and his team of 19 people had managed to leapfrog virtual reality 20 years into the future—and he gives me an Oculus Rift? "It's just the housing," he said.

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  This Startup Is Making Virtual and Augmented Reality So Crisp It Looks Real

  I’m looking around a hip city dweller’s home through the lenses of an Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset: there are posters on the walls, sweaters on an industrial clothing rack, a cool orange couch, and gray beanbag chairs.

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  Varjo Promises Human-Eye Resolutions For VR This Year

  I am standing in a virtual living room rendered via Unity. Except I am seeing things I never have before in VR. There is a virtual television on the wall to my left displaying a 4K video of a city. The floor, the couch pillows, the clothes hanging on a rack to my left, are shown in such extreme detail that I am actually seeing a life-like world. It’s a glimpse of VR’s future.

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  This Finnish Startup Says It’s Building Tomorrow’s VR Displays Today

  The biggest stumbling block to widespread adoption of high-end virtual reality systems, in both the consumer and business markets, may be the relatively low-resolution screens today’s headsets offer–and that tomorrow’s headsets, and next year’s, and even the next few year’s after that, are expected to offer as well.
  

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  A new startup from Nokia employees is trying to fix VR's biggest technical problem

  One of the biggest limitations of current virtual reality technology — whether you’re talking about Samsung’s mobile Gear VR or a full home system like the Oculus Rift — is resolution. And progress toward solving this problem is slow, because companies making VR headsets are at the mercy of advances in display technology.

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  Varjo Demonstrates 20|20 Human Eye Resolution VR: Hands-On!

  Startup Varjo Technologies is coming up with a VR product that provides something that the industry didn’t think would be available for years of not a couple decades in the future: human-eye resolution VR experiences. We tried this new VR display technology, and it shows immense potential.

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