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Pearl – Google Spotlight Studios. Tilt Brush – Google. Tilt Brush – Google (Winner) . Blocks – LeapMotion. Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories (Winner). Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories. Best Overall: Tilt Brush – Google (Winner) . Speech Center VR – Cerevrum Inc. Ctrl – Breaking Fourth.
Oculus Touch controllers were just announced to ship late in 2016. Google Daydream View plus 3DOF controller. Many mobile headsets, like the Google Daydream View and Samsung Gear VR, become fully functional as soon as you slide your compatible smartphone into them. Google Daydream Controller. LEAPMotion.
The annual Proto Awards, set up to highlight and honour the best and brightest the VR industry has to offer, is over for another year, with Google’s Tilt Brush walking away as the overall winner. Pearl – Google Spotlight Studios. Tilt Brush – Google. Most Innovative: Tilt Brush – Google (Winner). The Lab – Valve.
She shot a video of of her co-worker in VR trying out the latest LeapMotion Orion update, and tweeted it out saying “This is the future.” — Eva (@downtohoerth) February 19, 2016. — Nicolas Debock (@ndebock) February 21, 2016. ” She says , “Today, we are literally this guy.
It has bought the hand-tracking company LeapMotion various months ago for $30M since the two hardware are a perfect fit the one for the other. The bad is that they are just audio smartglasses, that only provide audio directly to your ears and nothing more; Iristick has started offering its smart glasses that look like Google Glass.
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Above: David Holz, founder of LeapMotion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. The headset used sensors to detect my fingers, using software from LeapMotion. We saw 40 percent more VR startups created in 2016, but the headsets that debuted during the year only generated about 6.3 Image Credit: Dean Takahashi.
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Motion tracking is either done by the smartphone’s sensors or built-in headset sensors; thus, there are no cables hindering free movement. The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. April 2016.
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It sounds kinda absurd and it makes me feel like in 2016 again, but there must be a reason if Sony plans to do such a revival. Google is still into XR. Ultraleap (formerly LeapMotion) has just released the fifth version of its hands-tracking engine. I have no idea and I’m curious to see where this is going.
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diagonal, which feels so 2016. Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. I think it can become just the nth XR project that Google will abandon. Digilens shows a reference design for AR glasses.
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