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VR Film Festivals Look To Inspire Fresh New Talent For Hollywood

VRScout

Japan’s very first VR-focused international film festival, Beyond the Frame Festival , is currently underway thanks to a partnership with HTC Vive. Of course, you can also use your HTC Vive to jump into VIVEPORT and experience each film in VR. Beyond the Frame Festival and FIVARS tease the next generation of media artists.

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SenseGlove Debut Nova 2 Haptic Glove

XR Today - Virtual Reality

More on SenseGlove SenseGlove debuted the initial model of its Nova device at CES 2021, compatible with HTC VIVE, Meta Quest, and Pico Neo headsets. SenseGlove is currently running pre-orders for its product starting at €5,999. Following a successful showcase, SenseGlove opened global shipments of the Nova product in May 2022.

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Valve Index turns one: all the tweaks and tricks from one year of usage!

The Ghost Howls

I was puzzled by this omission, as their previous collaboration with HTC saw the Vive released in 2016 with both narrow and wide facial gaskets to offer 2 fitting options out of the box. . This is not ideal in the long term as it may cause similar damage to that seen on the HTC Vive when used with PU cushions.

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A chat with Grigore Burdea about the past, the present, and the future of VR

The Ghost Howls

He was Valedictorian at the Technical University of Bucharest (Romania) and subsequently graduated with a PhD from New York University (USA). According to a study by HTC, VR is 44% more addictive than flat gaming , for instance. This is something we should be careful about when the technology will be more widespread.

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Hands-on: ‘Marble Land’ Promises Hours of Complex Physics-based Puzzles, Launching on All Major Platforms

Road to VR

Marble Land is a physics-based puzzle game from Devious Technologies , a Bucharest, Romania based studio. We got a chance at this year’s Gamescom to pop into the unique little puzzler, which is slated to launch in the next few months on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream.

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Valve Index: A good fit? Part 2 – Analyzing and improving the comfort of Knuckles controllers

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Known as “Knuckles” during their long development, these have been highly anticipated by the SteamVR community as an alternative to the HTC Vive “Wand” controllers with their simple ‘hand tool’ design and crude yet unreliable trackpads. Index controllers staying attached to the hand (Image by Rob Cole). So what is going on here?

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Top 37 VR Film Festivals to Attend in 2018

VeeR VR

Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. exhibiting a number of new-but-unknown feature films, documentaries, animations, and shorts that have gone on to significant box-office success and multiple Oscar nominations.

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