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Students Hack Positional Tracking onto Gear VR with SteamVR Tracking

Road to VR

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only.

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Actress Elizabeth Banks Brings Pedigree To VR Animation ASTEROIDS!

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Cheez is voiced by Banks and will add to a film that is an official selection for the Sundance Film Festival that takes place in Park City, Utah from January 19th to the 29th. A sneak peak at the film is available on Samsung Gear, Google Daydream, and the Oculus storefront starting today.

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Facebook Opens 360 Live Streaming Video To All

VRScout

We saw the first hint of 360 live streaming back in December when Facebook partnered up with NatGeo to launch Live 360 from the Mars Desert Research Station facility in Utah. Then we here at VRScout followed suit the following month for the second ever 360 live stream , capturing President Obama’s Farewell Address.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Partnering with National Geographic to show off the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in full 360 degree glory, Facebook took its first steps into live spherical video. If you have a Samsung Gear VR, you can now connect with your Facebook friends through Oculus Home. If anyone can do it, it’s Jimmy Fallon.

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Smart Glasses? It’s all about perspective.

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Imagine your Youtube friends enjoying your breathtaking death ride on a mountain bike somewhere in a canyon deep down in Utah. Devices like the Samsung Gear VR and the Oculus Rift belong to our last category called immersive eyewear. They are designed to record and stream the action from the wearer’s point of view.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek’s Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. I think– I don’t know if you guys have plugins for Shopify yet, but I mean, there’s a whole market there of smaller companies that now with things like the Samsung Galaxy S10 or whatever it is, the one that has the scanning capability. Jon: Right. Jon: Yeah, right. Jon: Oh yeah.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek’s Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. I think– I don’t know if you guys have plugins for Shopify yet, but I mean, there’s a whole market there of smaller companies that now with things like the Samsung Galaxy S10 or whatever it is, the one that has the scanning capability. Jon: Right. Jon: Yeah, right. Jon: Oh yeah.