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A Hands on Look at the State of Input in VR

VRScout

Many mobile headsets, like the Google Daydream View and Samsung Gear VR, become fully functional as soon as you slide your compatible smartphone into them. The latter two are not yet globally available, with the Vive Focus only available in China and the Oculus Go still only being sent to developers. Samsung Gear Controller.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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Baofeng Showcases Mobile VR Headset With Positional and Finger Tracking

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

on stage today in Beijing, China. Baofeng Group, a Chinese mobile communications giant, announced their fifth generation VR headset, the Mojing 5.0, The post Baofeng Showcases Mobile VR Headset With Positional and Finger Tracking appeared first on UploadVR.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.23): Facebook works on its OS, Oculus Link official cable released, Huawei VR glasses available, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Huawei VR glasses are now available in China. Huawei has finally released its 3DOF glasses in China for 2999 Yuan (around $430). More info (TESTED video on Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Summary of most important points of the video by Upload).

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HTC Aims to Create a ‘Mobile OpenVR’ in China with Vive Wave VR Platform

Road to VR

While HTC is only releasing the headset in China, and not in the West as previously announced, the company is using Vive Focus as the impetus for its own mobile VR platform that aims to resolve what HTC calls a “highly fragmented” mobile VR market in China, and become a common platform and storefront across disparate hardware vendors.

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Best VR Headsets in 2018

VeeR VR

Dominic Brennan from Road to VR estimates that Santa Cruz is using the same 1,440 × 1,600 displays that are also found in the Samsung Odyssey and Vive Pro headsets. For those of you that will not be able to attend in San Jose, California you can watch the event live streamed in virtual reality on your Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR!

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Vive Focus enter version 2.0 at VEC 2018

The Ghost Howls

This is a great feature, even if I think that to be really great it has to be properly tuned with the companion app: while doing demos with my Gear VR, that automatically shows the notifications of my Samsung phone, I was really afraid of what my friend could send me. Mister President while talking about how China is doing very well in VR.

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