McKnight’s Senior Living April 11, 2024
Virtual reality is becoming more and more popular among older adults. Could the next innovation allow them to experience VR from their smartphone?
A full-color, three-dimensional display can be generated off of a smartphone screen, according to new research.
Such a breakthrough would make it even easier, and cost-effective, for senior living providers to offer VR and augmented reality content for residents or allow for new telehealth opportunities.
The technology would involve only a smartphone screen and a second screen called a “spatial light modulator” to create the multi-layered image.
In another potential benefit to older adults, the new smartphone-generated three-dimensional display could be easier on the eyes than the current visual displays used with current VR headset...