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HaptX Secures $12M Financing to Produce Next Generation of Haptic Gloves

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HaptX, a producer of haptic VR gloves, today announced it’s secured $12 million in its Series A financing round. Founded in 2012 (then known as AxonVR), HaptX has been focused on creating haptic gloves for use in VR, training, and robotics. HaptX will be showing off its latest work in haptics at CES in January 2020.

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Ubisoft’s ‘Far Cry’ Gets Its Own Free-Roam VR Game

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Much like the 2012 game, Far Cry VR has you and your friends taking on the roles of innocent tourists who—after a series of unfortunate events— find themselves on the run from an army of henchmen in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. Image Credit: Zero Latency.

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Cloudhead Games CEO: Apple Vision Pro is an AR Headset Wearing VR Clothes

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Based in British Columbia and founded in 2012 Cloudhead’s pioneering approach to VR gave rise to broadly adopted movement standards including Snap Turns and Teleportation. Inputs and Haptics are incredibly important to Virtual Reality as a major tenant in reinforcing immersion and tactile interaction with virtual objects.

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AxonVR Raises $5.8 Million Seed Investment for Advanced VR Haptics

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million seed investment, which is claimed to be the largest secured by a VR haptics company to date. With a few exceptions , haptics in VR usually amounts to using vibration as a proxy for a touch event. To accomplish this, AxonVR has created a haptic skin that has hundreds of dots that are linked to pneumatic actuators.

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BISim tells us how XR is relevant for the Army

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Military simulations are one of the fields where virtual reality has always been an important technology , even before that VR had its new renaissance in 2012. haptics suits ) or does a VR headset suffice? haptic feedback vests) have been used for several years. Does the military personnel also use some XR accessories (e.g.

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XR Today’s Virtual Reality Guide for Enterprises

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In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. Enhanced AI solutions from companies such as Varjo and Tobii pave the way for things like eye tracking at incredible speeds and better sensor or haptic feedback controls. Enhanced Headsets.

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UltraLeap Gemini review: use both hands in VR!

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UltraLeap has evolved its hands-tracking runtime since its initial launch in 2012, and every major release of the runtime introduces a big jump ahead regarding the tracking accuracy. UltraLeap Gemini is the 5th iteration of the Leap Motion/UltraLeap hands-tracking runtime for Windows PCs.