Long car journeys may soon become a lot less boring if you get the chance to play virtual reality (VR) games in the passenger seat. And you might not even get carsick.
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The company holoride, which promises to “turn vehicles into moving amusement parks,” recently announced that it will be fitting VR headsets to some Audi SUVs and sedans this summer. The company claims it can reduce the motion sickness that plagues both regular drivers and VR users.
"Motion sickness typically occurs when passengers consume visual media in a moving vehicle, such as watching a movie or reading a book, because what they are viewing does not align with the motion of the car," Rudolf Baumeister, holoride's director of marketing and communications, told Lifewire in an email interview. "At holoride, we have developed our technology so that the real world and the virtual world are synchronized."
In June, Audi models equipped with the company’s MIB 3 infotainment system will ship with the software needed to sync with Holoride-compatible headsets. The Holoride system blends the physical world of rear-seat passengers with augmented reality for games that mimic the movement of the real car.
