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Mark Zuckerberg Teases Prototype Oculus VR Gloves

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Oculus wants your AR/VR experience to not only be a 360 immersive visual experience that includes real time head tracking and full immersive audio during your VR experience, but would also include real time hand tracking as part of the virtual and augmented experience. That’s what I’m doing here.”.

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Facebook Wants to Build an AR Headset to Supercharge Your Hearing, Create a Custom HRTF from a Photograph

Road to VR

Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is the newly adopted name of team at Facebook which is building immersive technologies (including Oculus headsets). Facebook Reality Labs Research (FRLR) is the research & development arm of that team. The glasses monitor the sounds around the user as well as where they’re looking.

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Drop of Doom VR Ride Comes To Six Flags

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This isn’t the first time Six Flags has experimented with combining virtual reality with its rides. The virtual reality coaster also used Oculus-powered Gear VR headsets which were synced to the action of the coaster. Once the clock strikes zero, you’re transported into space via full virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. Great times ahead for augmented reality! Many industry analysts are so skeptical about it , and personally I’m doubtful as well.

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Acer Windows VR Headset Review

Road to VR

The confusion comes from Microsoft using ‘Mixed Reality’ as an umbrella term to describe a spectrum of AR and VR technology. Setup is truly a breeze with native support under Windows 10 and no external sensors required for tracking.

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Top 10 VR headsets to spice up your Thanksgiving

Hypergrid Business

Oculus Quest 2. The Oculus Quest 2 standalone virtual reality headset is the best in all categories given its room-scale VR capability, a large library of games, fast performance, and good resolution, especially for its price point. Tracking: Inside-out tracking and hand tracking. One potential downside?

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Magic Leap One first impressions review: it’s not a leap, but a step

The Ghost Howls

I mean, on the Oculus Touch you have a middle finger trigger, that is used to grab stuff by closing your hand and the index finger that is used to trigger actions: when you use a VR gun, everything is more or less like in the real world. The Oculus Quest touch controllers: this is how I want manual interface in XR. Should you buy it?