VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The devices at the time included: HTC Vive wands that shipped with the Vive headset. Oculus Touch controllers were just announced to ship late in 2016. Xbox gamepads shipped with the Oculus Rift headset. Oculus Go Controller. Oculus Touch hand controllers. Xbox controller. Steam compatible controller.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Considering that Facebook is very smart also in leaking misleading info (as it has happened with the “Monterey” headset ), this can also be a move from Menlo Park to create hype for the upcoming Oculus Connect 6 and the AR glasses that will be teased there. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre.

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

It currently supports the following devices and XR systems: SteamVR: HTC Vive and Windows MR headsets. Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest. Leap Motion. The VIRTUOSO SDK for XR development is available as a full open-source release for the Unity game engine on Github. Sense Glove. bHaptics TactSuit.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2019

This is what the homepage of Oculus website shows now (Image by Oculus). As we were all expecting (also thanks to the amazing speculations of the Best Buy guys on Reddit :D), Oculus has launched both the Oculus Quest and the Rift S during the keynote of the F8 event , that happened at 10AM PT. Oculus For Business.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Hand-tracking looks likely to play a big part in that future, and Leap Motion is one of a few companies leading the charge in this department. Leap’s latest, well, leap is to bring its controller-free hand tracking tech to mobile VR headsets. Tagged with: hand tracking , leap motion , qualcomm , standalone.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

As for resolution, the company maintains the screen door effect (SDE) is diminished with the headset’s dual 1440×1600@90 Hz LCD displays, a 70 percent increase in pixels over consumer devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Front IR window for optional embedded Leap Motion controller. image courtesy Sensics.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This doesn’t look like Oculus Quest” and in the text puts a link to an Imgur album with 4 photos featuring various half-assembled VR headsets. We don’t know if it is just a reference design for external partners (like HTC) or it is an actual headset that Valve is producing. So, we are at premium 1st gen levels.

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VRScout

AUGUST 26, 2016

Launched back in 2012, Leap Motion first introduced us to their new way of interacting with computers in three dimensions. At the time, the Leap Motion sensor sat on your desk or was built into your keyboard, allowing for natural hand and finger movement tracking. There was one thing — the device never really caught on.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

It is a square one, so it seems that the system takes the undistorted view of one eye, exactly as the Oculus Go does when recording a video. From my tests, the image on the screen appears slightly distorted, so there will be something to fix on HTC’s side. Better integration with HTC phones. Image by HTC).

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

HTC – Vive. Oculus – Rift. Leap Motion – Leap Motion. Leap Motion – Leap Motion. Oculus – Touch. Nominees for VR Headset of the Year. Razer – OSVR. Sony – Playstation VR. Starbreeze – StarVR. Merge VR – Goggles.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). As long as it works….

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

One of the biggest drawbacks of HTC Vive headsets with regard to Oculus Rift are the controllers: while Oculus Touch is ergonomic and can emulate the hands quite well, Vive has controllers that are quite big and are usable only as wands. Oculus Touch Controllers. Knuckles EV2.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 5, 2016

Leap Motion adds a whole new level of expression to your virtual avatar – so you can point, wave, or dance. UE4 has built-in Vive support, and with the new official plugin release in Unreal Engine 4.11 , it’s easier than ever to get started with Leap Motion + Vive. Have a question about Leap Motion + HTC Vive?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

FlyInside Flight Simulator isn’t hitting Steam or the Oculus Store yet though, as the company is launching beta access for both their free trial version and a paid ‘pro version’ first through their website starting today to get the valuable feedback and start building a community around the fledgling flight sim.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

And that’s ok, it is still a new technology and it has already made big steps forward (I remember all the computer crashes I had at the Oculus DK 2 times!), Recently I had a big issue with my VR controllers in SteamVR (both with Oculus and Vive) and so I’m writing this post to try to help you in solving it. ASUS AI Suite 3.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is currently producing its DK1 device , that can be used both with Vive systems (in this case, a Vive Tracker is attached to the gloves to provide the positional tracking) or Oculus systems (in this case, the Oculus Touch controllers are used). It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training.

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Next Reality VR

JUNE 1, 2016

The Oculus Rift's virtual experiences become a little less immersive when you're barely moving in a chair with a headset on, playing on a gamepad—but you don't have to accept that reality anymore. But Leap Motion has a universal mounting kit for their motion sensor that lets you control nearly any virtual reality headset with gestures.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. The headset has an inside out tracking system enabled by Intel’s amazing RealSense technology.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. The headset has an inside out tracking system enabled by Intel’s amazing RealSense technology.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Markers can be used to define where to show virtual elements, and in the demo that I tried were used to show virtual Chinese artworks in a room; Leap Motion device on Realmax glasses. RealMax can mount a Leap Motion device, so you have the power of using naturally your hands to interact with AR elements. I liked it a lot.

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MAY 10, 2017

Individuals from companies such as HTC Vive, NVIDIA, Osterhout, Unity, castAR, Qualcomm, Leap Motion, Meta, Verizon, Dell, Oculus, and more will be among the over 300 featured speakers in attendance. In addition, over 300 speakers are on the agenda from a wide range of companies in and around the AR and VR industries.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Between Google’s Tilt Brush and Blocks and Oculus’ Medium and Quill you might not think there’s much room for more creative experiences within VR. With my left motion controller (in this case Oculus Touch) I can change the tools in my hand to suit a variety of different needs.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

Virtual Battlespace 3 , a professional simulation experience from Bohemia Interactive Simulations, today added support for the Oculus Rift’s consumer version (CV1) and the HTC Vive as part of its v3.9.2 Others have also replaced other wide field of view display solutions with the Oculus Rift.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2016

The upgraded OLED panel has a resolution of 2160×1200 and refresh rate of 90Hz, bringing the screen’s on-paper specs up to that of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The $220 screen upgrade kit, sold at the OSVR Store , offers HDK 1.3 & 1.4 The display found in the HDK 1.3 is 1920×1080 running at 60Hz.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

AltSpaceVR is the first cross-platform social VR application that supports both the Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. Now that all of these VR headsets have had their consumer launch, then AltSpace VR has been one of the top places in VR to have social interactions.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

One part of the characteristics of VRTK is its management of the project/scene for specific platforms (Oculus, Vive, etc.). Creating remote MR productions Hand Tracking Thanks to the release of the Oculus Quest, one of the most popular UI in XR today is the hand tracking input. The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

But that first version of the glove required a third-party tracking system like Leap Motion in order to translate the movement of the user’s hands into virtual reality. The latest Gloveone prototype integrates its own tracking system which utilizes IMUs arranged along each finger and along the user’s arm and torso.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

Oculus Go launch. We all knew that Oculus Go would have been launched at F8 and this has been the case. And not only online on Oculus website, but also on Amazon and Best Buy supermarkets : before the conference, lots of people started posting on Reddit the pictures of the Go being already inside Best Buy shopping centers.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. This transforms your phone into a VR headset screen, simulating devices like the HTC Vive. The experience within the headset will be at least a couple of frames behind what you would experience on the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 22, 2016

Hands-On: Manus VR Arm And Finger Tracking System Now In Production Regardless of whether or not you prefer the HTC Vive or the Oculus Touch , or maybe the PlayStation Move controllers , the fact remains none of these solutions actually offer 1:1 tracking for your entire hand.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

With the recent release of the Oculus Rift CV1 and 1.3 SDK, you’ll also want to check out Oculus’ migration guide. Unreal Engine 4.11 doesn’t currently have Oculus 1.3 Once it arrives, the new official Leap Motion UE4 plugin should work with it right away. Do Leap Motion demos work with the 1.3

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This system makes the headset dependent on static hardware, however, and so top engineers at Oculus , HTC and Google are all racing to crack the inside-out code first. This take on AR is what Oculus’ chief scientist, Michael Abrash called “ Augmented Virtual Reality.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2016

SEE ALSO HTC Announces Vive 'Business Edition' for $1200. There’s also a pair of fans to prevent fogging, and an optional integrated Leap Motion module built into the headset for hand interactions without the need for controllers. Pre-production models of the Sensics Goggles for Public VR use the familiar OSVR headstrap.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

A Rift from Facebook-owned Oculus or a Vive from HTC can track your head throughout a room, but these “outside-in” systems require careful placement, or mounting, of sensors around the perimeter of the room for a full experience. The Santa Cruz inside-out tracking prototype from Oculus.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 5, 2016

If you want to adapt your older kit to the Oculus Rift CV1 and HTC Vive, here’s a quick guide that will help: Thicker Adhesive Strips. If you have an Oculus Rift, you’ll want to get a longer extender as well. Unlike the Oculus Rift CV1, the HTC Vive has an onboard USB port that’s fully compatible with the Leap Motion Controller.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Mobile VR – iOS and Android. What Are the Key Features of MRTK-Unity?

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