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Patent Hints At Further Oculus Research Into VR Hand Controllers Beyond Touch

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A patent application filed today by Oculus indicates the Facebook-owned virtual reality team is researching new kinds of hand controllers. The company’s current solution for bringing your hands with you into a VR experience is Oculus Touch. Tagged with: Haptics , oculus Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.02): PSVR likely not to come in 2021, new info revealed on Decagear, and more!

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I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Oculus Quest is putting pressure to the Chinese VR ecosystem. PSVR 2 is probably coming in 2022 and with a slow transition. All the reviewers are amazed.

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Facebook Is Recruiting Experts in Psychophysics To Hack Your Mind for VR

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A recent job posting to the Oculus career page indicates that Facebook’s 2014 virtual reality acquisition is currently searching for postdoctoral research scientists with experience in psychophysics. ” The successful candidate will work at a special Oculus research office in Redmond, Washington.

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Oculus Is Building an AR Incubation Team to Prototype New Hardware

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When you think of Oculus you typically think of one thing: virtual reality. Today, flush with Facebook’s seemingly endless resources, Oculus is at the forefront of the VR industry’s research and development. The Oculus product roadmap as shown at last year’s F8 conference. ” Read the Full Job Description.

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Oculus Is Building an AR Incubation Team to Prototype New Hardware

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

When you think of Oculus you typically think of one thing: virtual reality. Today, flush with Facebook’s seemingly endless resources, Oculus is at the forefront of the VR industry’s research and development. The Oculus product roadmap as shown at last year’s F8 conference. ” Read the Full Job Description.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

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cable extender left over from my ownership of an Oculus Rift CV1 with a 3-camera tracking setup. After removing two haptic motors, a rechargeable battery, and numerous flexes, it was ready to accommodate the Vive Tracker. The standard 1.2 This was quickly solved using a five meters long active USB 2.0 Image by Rob Cole).

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The Jetset with Headsets: How XR Will Revolutionize Air Travel, with Neutral Digital’s Greg Caterer

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They’re compelled by, for example, seeing somebody within a pod have, effectively, a game-style — very fun, very memorable — experience within an Oculus Rift headset, the entire experience being reflected on the screen. Have you used haptics or scent machines or anything like that? That’s got a lot of pull.