VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

We get to see a VR headset, facial tracking gear, haptic gloves and bodysuit, and most importantly for Wade’s sprinting, an omnidirectional treadmill. It wasn’t long ago that the best method of moving around games and virtual worlds were two joysticks or a set of keyboard keys and a mouse. Driving and Flight Simulators.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2021

VR remote collaboration solutions are those that place a user and/or their avatar into an immersive virtual environment. FundamentalVR is a full 6-degree-of-freedom and haptics-enabled VR solution specifically targeted at the medical industry. A Note on Some Platforms We Left Off the List. FundamentalVR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. Zuck and another Meta employee entered an empty virtual world, and Zuck started saying what he wanted to see in it and the AI answered by crafting exactly what he wanted. “I

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

One of the videos from Oculus Connect 5 that stuck in my mind till tody is when Michael Abrash showed a real space transformed into a virtual one that has exactly the same shape, but a different mood. A real space can be turned into a virtual one with the exact same layout (Image by syncreality). SyncReality’s Vision.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

In the pre-mission setup phase, players are outfitted with a VR backpack PC, haptic vest, hand and foot trackers, and a VR gun peripheral. Haptics from the vest and the gun pack a significantly greater punch than what than the the rumble found in consumer VR controllers. Photo by Road to VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 5, 2022

The SenseGlove Nova is a wearable haptic glove that enhances VR experiences by using pressure sensors to track the movement of fingers and allowing users to feel tactile feedback in their VR environment. XR Today takes a closer look at eight of the world’s top immersive wearable solutions. SenseGlove Nova.

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VRScout

JULY 15, 2019

Combining the immersive capabilities of VR with physical obstacles and the latest in haptic technology, The VOID has quickly become one of the leading providers of location-based immersive entertainment. VOID CFO Jeff Ruggels will also be leaving in the near future as part of a long-planned move from the company.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

To pull this off correctly requires a careful blend of graphics, animations, audio, and haptics that work together in deliberate concert to suspend disbelief and engross the user. Creating a VR that truly immerses the user is no easy feat. Fujii is a joyful interactive adventure and a masterclass in rich VR interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2023

Apple TV : both immersive sports content and traditional video content — the latter presented in virtual environments, such as a desert or the sky (sport broadcasting tech could come from the acquisition of NextVR) Apple Books : will allow users to read in virtual reality. This is ideal for watching VR movies while in bed.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

When creating the new “Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond” title, Respawn wanted to reboot an entire franchise for access in the Oculus VR platform. The VIVE Pro headset allows users to see a virtual environment where they can interact with a realistic ice rink, running around a room with full freedom. Alta VR, AWS, and Oculus.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The degree of immersion in virtual reality vs augmented reality. In VR, the user is completely absorbed in a virtual environment and minimises boundaries and markers. Users may utilize visual, sound, and haptic (touch) stimuli to create an immersive manufactured world. Due to this, VR and AR in the following ways: 1.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

AltspaceVR allows people to host and attend live shows, meetups, and classes from anywhere around the world in virtual reality although not the most suitable tool for business and virtual reality collaboration. You can spawn up to five virtual screens from your computer whether in private mode alone or when sharing them with a team.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. This new industrial-grade system offers the most realistic haptics experience to date. It marks the first commercial availability of our industry-leading microfluidic haptic technology platform.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

VSDK is a Unity-based solution for developers looking to create naturalistic user interactions whilst supporting a wide variety of headsets (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest) and peripherals (bHaptics TactSuit, Leap Motion, and ManusVR gloves.).

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 7, 2017

The system is used for tracking movements inside virtual reality environments, and provides freedom of movement inside virtual reality environments, whether users are walking, running, crouching, turning and gesturing. At Miami University , the platform is used to create shared virtual spaces.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Every new VR headset brings amplified visual fidelity, with Oculus Quest 2 , Pico Neo 3 , Varjo VR-3 and other remarkable VR devices enabling life-like quality of visuals. More experiences incorporate haptic feedback gloves like Noitom , Manus or full body motion capture systems like Noitom that help enhance the extent of immersion.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Much like our UI Widgets , it’s a set of interface elements – switch, lever and potentiometer – that can be embedded in any virtual environment. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further?

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

It can still be found on Oculus Share, although it’s quite old now. I’ve also built a couple of smaller proof-of-concept pieces that people may have seen on the leapmotion or oculus subreddits. I’ll also be building fun demos for their CAVE (cave automatic virtual environment) throughout the year.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the most exciting piece of VR hardware to hit the market since Facebook’s original standalone VR headset, offering incredible visuals, increased processing power, and a smaller, lighter design—all for a lower price than the first-generation model. Improved haptics also offer more engaging interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

One of the things that blew me away was the photorealism that you guys have created of 3D models and virtual environments, of being in an airplane. By having training so scalable, you can deploy training to wherever you can put an Oculus Rift and a laptop. Have you used haptics or scent machines or anything like that?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. Quest hand tracking is perfect for slower experiences with light interaction. ” Image Credit: Facebook.

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VRScout

MAY 26, 2021

In the early days of modern VR, navigating throughout a virtual environment meant operating a standard joystick located on your motion controller. Over the past few years we’ve seen several interesting attempts at enhancing VR locomotion through the use of haptic accessories. Feature Image Credit: Cybershoes.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

One of the things that blew me away was the photorealism that you guys have created of 3D models and virtual environments, of being in an airplane. By having training so scalable, you can deploy training to wherever you can put an Oculus Rift and a laptop. Have you used haptics or scent machines or anything like that?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Oculus introduces new Party features.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. This technology could be in the form of a head mounted display, motion tracking, haptic systems in gloves or suits, locomotion, consoles or image capture. TRON (1982). Arcade (1993).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there's a bit of-- with the launch of the Oculus Quest it'd starting to get locked down a lot more, they're starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

And especially, they have much better finger sensing (they can now detect how your index finger is bending with great precision) and have very advanced haptics , which can give high-definition haptic feedback in different portions of the hand. All work-related updates of Meta Connect (Oculus blog). Quest For Business.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

People have started understanding the value of virtual events, and of having a virtual environment where we all can meet and live amazing experiences together. Maybe Oculus planned to showcase Del Mar at GDC. More info (Rumors on Oculus Del Mar) More info (One of the source articles on Reddit).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

For example, when Oculus released their touch controllers in December, I was amazed by how much more real and complete each experience felt, driven simply by the fact that I could see and articulate my hands within VR. The result for me and other Oculus owners was a dramatic increase in the fun factor and time spent in VR.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking. The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. It’s a significant feature that makes virtual objects seem as if they’re really in the room with you. He's what he said: "That’s a model we’ve definitely explored.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

It ruins not only the reputation of the company, but of the reputation of what virtual reality is doing today. There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

It ruins not only the reputation of the company, but of the reputation of what virtual reality is doing today. There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

It ruins not only the reputation of the company, but of the reputation of what virtual reality is doing today. There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in.

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