LG Bets on AI to Help Ease Simulation Sickness

Several companies are working on attempting to improve the display quality for virtual reality (VR), with many concentrating on attempting to improve the resolution and refresh rate, but this does come with an attendant additional load on the processor and graphics card. Electronics company LG are trying out a different solution, one which involves artificial intelligence (AI). LG Display have been working together with Sogang University in South Korea to create an AI-powered algorithm that can reduce latency and motion blue in VR content. High latency has been shown to be one of the factors that can cause simulation sickness symptoms, along with motion blur. Higher-resolution displays can even exacerbate this problem since they require more calculations which can increase the latency. The LG technology uses an AI algorithm that converts low-resolution video into higher resolutions in real time.