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Smart Fabric Technology Brings Touch Haptics To The Oculus Quest

VRScout

The glove-like accessory allows standalone VR users to feel virtual objects. The latest iteration of its one-size-fits-all Forte Data Glove can now be combined with the Oculus Quest controllers, integrating BeBop’s hand tracking technology with the Quest’s 3D tracking. Image Credit: BeBop Sensors. Image Credit: BeBop Sensors.

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Google & Snap

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Zuckerberg also stated that the Quest 2 successor is in development already and that smartglasses and AR glasses will come in the near future. The CEO said they have but one competitor, Apple, which hasn’t yet announced any XR, AR or VR, products. In November, OpenBCI announced Galea which is BCI designed for VR/AR headsets.

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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

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Augmented reality may be the future of games, but there are some huge problems that stand in its way. So we decided to gather three of the biggest AR visionaries and product makers to show us the path to the future at our GamesBeat Summit 2017 event last week. But he still can’t make AR glasses with awesome visuals for just $500.

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Hands-On: Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 Is A Serious Improvement, Pre-Orders Now Shipping

VRScout

One thing to mention for the sake of clarity: Microsoft views any type of immersive tech as MR. As it was told to us during their launch event, MR is considered a two-sided coin with AR on one side and VR on the other. The potential of the larger FOV really stood out during a demo of Spatial ’s collaborative AR software.

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The Fathers Of Virtual Reality-a post about VR on Fathers Day.

Cats and VR

In any case, before then, he had set up VPL Research – an organization which spearheaded research into virtual reality and 3D illustrations which likewise sold the intitail virtual reality apparatus, for example, virtual reality glasses, data gloves and later, the full data suit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier.

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CES 2020 Interview: Bebop Sensors has got the Touch

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Bebop Sensors has attended CES for several years now with VRFocus last testing the Forte Data Glove back in 2018. Back then the glove was more about demonstrating its bend sensor technology rather making a commercial product. In fact, at the time the company said it had no plans of going into full production.

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China shows its masterplan to lead Virtual Reality in 2025

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We all believe that 5G will be able to disrupt AR and VR, because it will allow us to have very light headsets with all the rendering performed on the cloud , and of course China should invest on it as well. – Perceive interactive devices. – Content collection production equipment. – VR+ manufacturing.