XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 31, 2023

Not so long ago, Virtual Reality (VR) was considered by many to be a futuristic concept. Here’s how professionals can get started with Unity 3D tools for VR development. What are the Tools Unity Can Provide for VR Development?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 26, 2022

HaptX opened on Tuesday preorders of its Gloves G1, an enterprise-grade haptic device for $4,500 per pair – a decrease in cost compared to previous models. Jake Rubin, Founder and CEO of HaptX , believes that haptics are the cornerstone of next-generation human-machine interface (HMI) technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). Image by Rob Cole). Header image by Rob Cole).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Last Friday, Meta publicly announced the acquisition of Berlin-based haptics developers Lofelt. The Lofelt purchase enables Meta to double down on its haptics research leading into the proposed October release window for the upcoming Quest device. Fresh Acquisition Amidst FTC Crack-Down.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

A large adoption rate for augmented and virtual reality in 2020 has broadened the audience and age groups interested in the latest technologies. One of the biggest international events dedicated to the augmented and virtual reality will take place at the beginning of September in Chengdu Financial City in Sichuan, China.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 21, 2025

The study proved that when playing passive virtual reality experiences, you can alter the physical rotation a lot when compared to the virtual one without the users noticing. The table acts as haptic feedback for the hands , making the game more immersive. It seems cool, but there is a thing Im not a huge fan of.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is an exoskeleton for your hands that is able to provide you haptics sensations. Theoretically, the SenseGlove can be used outside VR, but practically speaking it is inside the virtual reality that it shines , because it is able to give more realism to your VR experiences by offering more realistic touch sensations.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2022

In this article, I will tell to you my first impressions of the Lenovo ThinkReality A3 AR glasses and the Acrtronika Skinetic haptic suit that I tried on the Laval Virtual show floor. Skinetic is the first own product of the company, which is meant to give haptic sensations to VR users. Actronika Skinetic. Hands-on impressions.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It’s a while I’m connected on Linkedin with Cyril Tuschi , a prize-winner filmmaker turned Virtual Reality entrepreneur. This is simply amazing because it would offer an experience that is virtual reality, but a virtual reality completely rooted in your real reality.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“With HaptX Gloves G1, we’re making it possible for all organizations to leverage our lifelike haptics,” HaptX founder and CEO, Jake Rubin, said in a release shared with ARPost. The Gloves G1 are available in four sizes and feature improved haptics and ergonomics, as well as wireless mobility.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The sense of touch is an essential step in enhancing virtual reality immersion. Streamlining the development and integration of haptics and interactions is a necessary step to scale the use of Haptics in digital content, and including a haptic device that can raise the immersion of any XR project.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Thanks to the improvements in haptics , depth of field, and other factors, users can feel that they are actually interacting with real-life objects. Ultraleap (previously Leap Motion), a company focused on developing haptics technology for the immersive experiences industry, has recently launched Gemini. Watch Gemini in Action.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The award for Best Developer Tool was presented by Khronos Group President Neil Trevett to Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity (MRTK-Unity) by Microsoft. ?. Best in Show Virtual Reality. AWE co-founder and Futurewei Technologies Director of AR/VR Tish Shute presented the award to Masterpiece Studio. Awesome Award.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And especially we started seeing some fantastic experiments made by developers with it: I’m linking here below my favorite one (which you MUST absolutely see) about someone making a “scratchable” virtual reality that unveils the real reality that is beyond it. HaptX announces the new generation of its haptic gloves.

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AR Insider

JULY 26, 2021

Sketchfab is integrated into Epic’s popular Unreal Engine game and special effects paltform, and notably, all of its competitors, starting with Unity, Snap’s Lens Studio, Facebook’s Spark AR, and even Tilt Brush. Haptic VR Glove Company HaptX Raises $12 Million in New Funding. In short, they are everywhere spatial content is made.

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ARVR

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Haptics club is an Open community about #Haptics. Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. Hrafn Thorisson has worked in the field of virtual reality (VR) experiences since 2013. Hrafn Thorisson has had an intense interest in virtual reality (VR), specifically since he was a kid.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Whether to allow users to full-dive into Virtual Reality, freely move around, and be active in the medium. Unity engine support is promised but with no plans for motion control support, Apple has cut out any possibility of porting most of the existing or future VR catalog to its platform.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2021

This article was extracted from the Recommended Practices for Haptics in Enterprise VR published by the Haptics Industry Forum. What should be considered while planning to include haptics in a VR training solution? ? Why should you include haptics in your VR training solution? ? Application maturity. Skills transfer.

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

On Thursday, May 27th, key players from the haptics, hand tracking, and VR training industries gathered to discuss the scaling of haptics in VR training applications. It addressed how a company can leverage haptic technology across all their virtual training scenarios thanks to Interhaptics and Innoactive technologies.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2024

update which better streamlines cross-platform support, letting team members more easily edit and collaborate in both mixed or virtual reality, but also now the web. Spatial design and prototyping app ShapesXR (2021) just launched its 2.0 ShapesXR 2.0

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ARVR

AUGUST 13, 2021

The Haptics club is an Open community about #Haptics. Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. Lucas De Bonet has been working on a “Do It Yourself” VR haptic glove project for fun, and it got a lot of attention on the internet. However, the haptic feedback will be slightly more challenging.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 5, 2017

The first time I tried a Tactical Haptics virtual reality controller was at GDC 2016. The idea of believable haptics in VR seemed like something we wouldn’t be getting for a long time. Impressive VR haptics are already on their way and could be in your living room in 2018. I wasn’t expecting much.

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

An Epic Games MegaGrant Brought VIRTUOSO SDK to the Unity World. Not only does it speed up XR development, but it also removes compatibility issues, without affecting the quality of graphics, haptics, and other game interactions. This open-source SDK is only the beginning for us. Supported Devices and Future Releases. Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. As usual, these are all speculations, so let’s see what will actually happen.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 20, 2023

Around the world, technologies in the extended reality landscape have gained increasing attention from virtually every industry. In the last few years, we’ve seen virtual reality transform from a novel concept connected to the gaming and entertainment space to a crucial corporate tool.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

For example, could you provide the player haptic feedback in addition or instead of visual or audio cues? Talking about the actual implementation, are there any libraries and plugins already available for Unity/UE4 that can give indie studios accessibility solutions already ready out-of-the-box? You can find it here: [link].

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Who We Are Push the boundaries of the virtual reality industry with us as we create a cross-platform, VR video streaming metaverse. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

Furthermore, this demo made me realize once more how interacting with objects without a clear sense of haptics and without realistic physics can be an illusion-breaker at the beginning, because you realize how your hands can’t interact with the virtual world as you do with the real one. UltraLeap Unity SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2020

The controllers as-is are 3DOF ones , and so they aren’t very useful for virtual reality. Use with virtual reality. With it, you have both full fingers tracking and haptics feedback. I have had a tour of the Unity SDK for Etee controllers, and I think that it gets the job done. Use without VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Sony promises amazing haptic sensations on the controllers, that should be able to provide “impactful, textured, and nuanced” sensations. Facebook is also working with haptics, and it has presented two prototypes of the wristbands that could apply vibrations or pressure sensations on the wrist. It will so have inside-out tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Roblox has a huge user base (like 50M daily users) and bringing it to VR, maybe together with the launch of Quest 3, would give Virtual Reality an infusion of lots of new young users. Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. MLK: Now Is The Time commemorates Martin Luther King in Virtual Reality. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2022

On the software side, we’ll be enabling users to bring tightly time-locked data into development engines like Unity and by building on open-source protocols like BrainFlow , the raw data will be available in most common programming languages as well. Galea is the culmination of OpenBCI’s six years (seven in February [2021]!)

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Virtual Reality tools can provide phenomenal digital environments where users can collaborate, explore, create, and communicate. It may even be possible to connect spatial sound with haptic feedback tools. AR and MR solutions are excellent for combining the real world with digital content.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Alice and I had been working with Unity to study game design and were excited to use and develop our skills in a practical application. This hands free input device affords the kids a calming physical in game activity that doesn’t rely on haptic feedback to tether them to the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. Image by Unity Technologies). Other relevant news. Image by Mojo Vision).

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

Planet Whack , is a whac-a-mole-inspired game, where two players participate in the same VR space trying to hit cartoon worms emerging from a sphere, with the giant beach ball providing haptic feedback. The system uses Samsung Gear VR headsets for visual output. The usual limitations of this mobile VR solution—i.e.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Yes, this is the passthrough version of The Unity Cube! Imagine pairing it with the synesthetic Beat Reality experiment I showcased some days ago : I could go around in the streets, with a Quest and a bHaptics suit, and see the world around me pumping at the rhythm of the music, while feeling haptic sensations all around my body.

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