Published: 13 February 2024
Mass-market appeal of HMDs is challenged by bottlenecks that can be solved only by collective efforts from component suppliers and device manufacturers. Product leaders should capitalize on supply-side innovations to overcome cost, form factor and efficiency challenges for improved product offerings.
A collective effort from the entire supply chain is imperative to increase the mass-market appeal of head-mounted displays (HMDs), where advancements in supply-side technologies address inherent issues such as cost, form factor, social acceptance and efficiency.
Eye tracking and foveated rendering, alongside advancements in display technologies, are playing a major role in increasing the immersiveness of HMD devices without adding unreasonable cognitive and power load.
ARM-based PC class processors, with their higher performance per watt, are narrowing the differences in features and performance between tethered, high-performance HMDs and all-in-one, lower-performance designs.
To address the inherent issues currently restricting HMD
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Kanishka Chauhan, Jon Erensen, Evan Brown, Tuong Nguyen, Ben Lee
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