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Varjo XR-4 hands-on preview: high resolution and raytracing are an explosive mix in VR

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Additional details on the device From this render, you can see the shape of the lenses of the headset (Image by Varjo) Before we went to the demo room, a Varjo representative made a little presentation of the XR-4. This is of course not required for the Secure edition It is possible to add Ultraleap hand tracking for +499€.

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Tomorrow's Tech Today: Takeaways From Augmented World Expo 2019

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RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes. Enterprise will be the biggest driver of smartglasses revenues for the next five years," said Tim Merel of Digi-Capital in a main stage presentation.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.15): Apple kills its AR glasses, Oculus full-steam ahead on 2nd gen VR and much more!

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All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. We don’t know what Oculus will present, but we have some hints. And you can also enter them, as if they were your house!

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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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The 6-minute film presented an exploratory – and largely dystopic – vision of how our reality could soon be overloaded and overlaid with information. Matsuda himself subsequently began working in AR following the film's release, leading design teams at both Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) and Microsoft.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.22): Sony reveals PSVR2 controllers, FRL shows the wristband of the future, and more!

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Facebook is also working with haptics, and it has presented two prototypes of the wristbands that could apply vibrations or pressure sensations on the wrist. Image by Microsoft). After the news went viral, Microsoft has clarified that it was just “a translation bug” and that Xbox is not adding VR support at the moment.

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Analyzing Oculus Santa Cruz patent images

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attaching Leap Motion through an adapter). Someone noticed that it looks a bit like the Microsoft Surface charger and that little line drawn inside it may be the led related to the charging operation. I bet on the last possibility since it makes everything coherent with all the media present on the web regarding the device.

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Experiential Technology Event Shows How Far VR Has To Go

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Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. The headset used sensors to detect my fingers, using software from Leap Motion. It discards data that it doesn’t need and presents something that we can grasp. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi. That suggests the solution for challenges of VR.