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What’s the future of SteamVR tracking?

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Motion capture If you want a cheap system for motion capture you can use Vive Trackers and full-body VR to record animations of yourself moving. The hardware to support it will still be carried on by startups for which it can be a lucrative market.

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Mindshow Is Relaunching As An Animation Tool For Professional Productions

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Mindshow is a virtual animation studio, allowing the user to set up scenes and puppeteer virtual characters using their VR head, hand, and body tracking hardware. Baron was a founding executive at Hulu, and formerly an executive at Fox Digital Media, Paramount, and Microsoft.

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‘Driver4VR’ Emulates Vive Trackers With Kinect for Cheap VR Body Tracking

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Since the launch of the Vive Tracker earlier this year, impressive full-body motion capture has been demonstrated through the use of three Tracker units , in combination with the two tracked controllers and headset.

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Rumor: Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Consumer AR Headset

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Apple continuously advertises a number of job positions dealing with AR software and hardware. And as a consumer-oriented company, Apple doesn’t typically launch expensive developer hardware like how Microsoft and Magic Leap have done with their respective headsets, the HoloLens 1 & 2 and Magic Leap One.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 1: Everything you need to know about Vive Trackers

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They also had a disassembled Vive headset, Vive controller and Vive base station on display, giving me a rare glimpse into the inner workings of this new SteamVR hardware. In June 2019, Valve entered the hardware market themselves with their Index PCVR system, sold direct to consumers through Steam. Additionally, base station 2.0

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The 2023 Polys WebXR Awards Recap

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In-person hosts, producers, presenters, and an audience gathered at ZeroSpace , an XR stage and motion capture studio in Brooklyn. Their actions on the stage were volumetrically captured and displayed in The Polys’ AltspaceVR environment, similar to the launch of Microsoft Mesh.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.21): Quest 2 released, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Leap Motion 2 on sale, and much more!

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Sony has confirmed once more than PlayStation 5 will work with the same hardware of the PSVR. Microsoft finally enables Research Mode on HoloLens 2. A group of creatives is proposing a live motion capture VR opera based on the murder mystery steampunk opera “Miranda”. No info has been given about the PSVR 2. Check it out!