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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands. image courtesy VR First. Purdue University, USA.

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Valve Index: A good fit? Part 2 – Analyzing and improving the comfort of Knuckles controllers

The Ghost Howls

For weight comparison, my Oculus CV1 Touch controller weighed in a little lighter at 160 grams including 1 rechargeable battery. These come from a warehouse in the Netherlands , which is where Indices for European customers are stored. time lucky perhaps? Vive Wand compared with the Rift CV1 Touch controllers (Image by Rob Cole).