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Sega’s Infamous ‘Desert Bus’ Is Coming To VR

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Originally developed as a mini game within the unreleased Sega CD title Penn & Teller’s Smoke & Mirrors, Desert Bus is a painfully realistic bus simulation that tasks players with keeping their vehicle on the road during a real-time trip from Tucson Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada. How long is the journey you ask?

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.02): Meta Quest 3 launched, Vive Ultimate Tracker leaked, and more!

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In a future update, Meta will use the tracking cameras to track the full body of the user and provide a decent estimation of the pose of the torso, the elbows, and the arms, and a simulated pose for the legs. Yes, the Quest 3 will be able to provide some sort of very rough full-body tracking , which is great for social VR experiences.

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HTC Partners With Autodesk to Bring Professional Design into VR

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The 2016 Autodesk University event kicked off in Las Vegas yesterday, and the design software company wasted no time in making some big announcements for the VR industry. Forge, the company’s cloud-based developer platform, is now coming to the HTC Vive via the Viveport platform.

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HTC VIVE Releases VIVE XR Elite Business Edition

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HTC VIVE, one of the top extended reality (XR) manufacturers in the market, announced on Wednesday it had launched its VIVE Business+ solution. link] — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) June 7, 2023 The new device will allow enterprise users to deploy, manage, and analyse entire fleets of HTC VIVE headsets. Exciting times are ahead!

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Watch: This Mobile VR Crane Simulator Showcases the Future of Industrial Training

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Industrial Training International is readying their VR Mobile Crane Simulator for the March ConExpo Event in Las Vegas. The simulator uses an Oculus Rift headset in combination with a modular rig, in order to significantly reduce the costs of training, compared to both real-world and older VR solutions.

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Holoride: A Comfortable Ride In VR With Gamepad In Hand

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At CES 2023 in Las Vegas we tried out Holoride, a startup working to add “thrill to every ride” with a VR platform made for use while riding in fast-moving vehicles. The untracked gamepad controller in my hands was mapped onto a simulated handheld game system.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

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Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. The big news of the week is that CES 2021 won’t be physically held in Las Vegas, but will have just a digital edition. Top news of the week.

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