McKnight’s Senior Living April 11, 2024
Aaron Dorman

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...

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