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Mobile Virtual Reality

Also known as: Mobile VR, Smartphone VR

Virtual reality systems delivered through a smartphone and consumer-grade accessories (wireless headphones, simple hand-held mounts) rather than a dedicated head-mounted display and PC rig. For accessibility, mobile VR is significant because it uses devices that blind and low-vision users already own, lowering the cost and skill barrier to VR-based orientation-and-mobility training, virtual site tours, and entertainment. Mobile VR typically relies on the phone's inertial sensors and camera for six-degree-of-freedom tracking and on spatial audio plus vibration for non-visual feedback.

Category: Virtual Reality · Mobile Accessibility · Assistive Technology · Blind and Low Vision

Related: Virtual reality · Spatial Audio · Haptic · Smartphone Accessibility · Orientation and mobility

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