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Leap Motion Introduces Support for OSVR: A New Open-Source Platform for AR/VR

Leapmotion

For early adopters, every new hardware purchase feels like a gamble, supported by only a fraction of available experiences. For developers, time is wasted on hardware support when it could be spent on game design. Now available under the Apache 2.0 Now available under the Apache 2.0

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

VR was a big part of last year with new experiences, hardware and companies pushing the technology to the forefront of our everyday lives. As for VR hardware, Naylor says, “I’m looking for something that allows the aforementioned content to reach its full potential whilst making itself as accessible as possible to consumers.”.

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Review OSVR HDK2

VR Bites

from Razer. The result was somewhat disappointing, so Razer assisted to show me their latest model. Razer helped me out of that illusion. They clearly stated that the HDK is designed for developers and semi-professionals who like to hack hardware and software. Time to discuss the hardware. Controllers.

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Varjo XR-4 Series Review: Next-Level Mixed Reality Headsets

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

As a leader in industrial-grade VR/XR software and hardware, Varjo already has an outstanding reputation in the enterprise landscape. Varjo’s newest headset (available in various styles) sincludes multifocal passthrough cameras, controllers co-developed by Razer, and even integration with the powerful NVIDIA Omniverse.

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OSVR Roadmap: Creating an Ecosystem of Interoperable VR Hardware and Software

VRGuy

Created by Sensics and Razer, OSVR includes two independent components: 1) the OSVR software platform and 2) the open-source Hacker Development Kit VR headset. Since the OSVR launch in January this year, nearly 250 organizations including Intel, NVIDIA, Xilinx, Ubisoft, Leap Motion, and many others have joined the OSVR ecosystem.

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All you need to know about the leaked Valve VR headset: is Half-Life 3/2 coming?

The Ghost Howls

Valve has now a hardware production plant and it is already manufacturing the Knuckles by itself, but it is not clear if they are able to produce a VR headset at scale. This will be something similar to what happens with current Razer Hypersense headphones, for instance (kudos to /u/fourierspacetroll for this idea).

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OSVR Co-founder on the Future of Open Source Virtual Reality

Road to VR

Sensics and Razer launched OSVR 18 months ago with the intent of democratizing VR. Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. The OSVR headset—called the Hacker Development Kit—has seen several major hardware improvements. OSVR is an open source software platform and VR headset.