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VR Prototyping for Less Than $100 with Leap Motion + VRidge

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63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. This transforms your phone into a VR headset screen, simulating devices like the HTC Vive. The experience within the headset will be at least a couple of frames behind what you would experience on the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.

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Volkswagen Launches Custom VR Exhibit At Historic Brand Tower

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We’ve seen the company use the technology before on everything from collaborative group meetings between team members to a simulator that lets you drive an Audi in a sandbox track. Volkswagen Group is back again with yet another VR project that continues to prove just how much faith the German automaker truly has in the immersive medium.

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Bohemia’s ‘Virtual Battlespace 3’ Military Sim Adds Rift CV1 and Vive Support

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VR was utilized in military simulations long before it became a cheaper, consumer-level technology, but now that headsets are in homes, one well-known simulator is going to use them. Battlespace 3 isn’t a game that you simply pick up from Steam, it’s a full blown simulator intended for training and professional use.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

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HTC – Vive. Leap MotionLeap Motion. Industrial Training International – ITI Crane Simulator. Nominees for VR Headset of the Year. Oculus – Rift. Razer – OSVR. Sony – Playstation VR. Starbreeze – StarVR. Nominees for Mobile Headset of the Year. Homido – V2.

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SenseGlove review: a nice DK1 for force-feedback in VR

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Inside the box you find: 1x SenseGlove right 1x SenseGlove left 1x SenseGlove linkbox 1x power cable 1x USB connector cable short (2m/ 6.5ft) 2x USB connector cable long (3m/ 10ft) 2x HTC tracker mounts including screws 1x manual. This way your gloves are powered and can communicate with your PC; Setup of the HTC Vive system.

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 1: Cave, zSpace, Brogent hands-on

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I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. So, it is good for instance to show you the various parts of the human body, but it is not good to simulate a full surgery operation. It felt like magic.

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How to fix Vive controllers not working inside SteamVR games

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Otherwise, contact HTC support to have your Vive fixed (good luck with that). The system will guide you in updating the firmware if any new firmware is available; How to update the firmware on your HTC Vive devices. Leap Motion driver and runtime. Header image by HTC). I so uninstalled WalkinVR and Riftcat VRidge.