VRScout
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Oculus Touch controllers were just announced to ship late in 2016. With an emphasis on active experiences and the success of tracked controllers, keyboard and mouse input has become virtually nonexistent. Samsung Gear Controller. Oculus Touch hand controllers. Xbox gamepads shipped with the Oculus Rift headset.
Upload VR
FEBRUARY 19, 2023
Eiche joined Owlchemy in late 2015 as a producer before the 2016 launch of Job Simulator, one of VR’s most well-known and highest selling titles. All our tech is insanely re-usable,” co-founder Alex Schwartz told us in 2016 of the hundreds of hours needed to build the simulation subsystems in their games. “We
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Road to VR
JANUARY 7, 2022
Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. Phone as controller, hand-tracking. On my Samsung S10, I got about two hours max before my battery drained to 30%. Cas & Chary Present. Battery Life.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
But Samsung isn’t stopping there… THE NEXT GENERATION OF GEAR VR MAY COME WITH CONTROLLER. Although not yet officially confirmed by the Korean company, a recent FCC filing indicates that the next version of the Samsung Gear VR will boast its own controller. this year , which is a 142% increase from 2016.
Road to VR
JANUARY 3, 2024
Instead a ‘look-and-tap’ system relying on eye and hand-tracking is the core input method, and by all accounts ( including mine ) it works very well. The headset has some wholly unique capabilities not seen on other consumer VR headsets, like eye-tracking, head-haptics, and adaptive triggers.
Upload VR
JUNE 9, 2023
Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. It doesn’t preclude any other input system," one of Google's hand tracking experts, Andrew Eiche at Owlchemy Labs, told us earlier this year. "
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FEBRUARY 23, 2017
It even had support for eye tracking, which we now know was through a partnership with none other than SMI. However, there was one thing that was missing, hand tracking. In fact, Intel was already demoing hand tracking this year at CES with their Project Alloy prototype.
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