Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Microsoft Research has devised two novel methods for more realistic haptic feedback on virtual reality controllers. Haptic feedback in general-purpose controllers has been limited to vibration feedback since the introduction of the Rumble Pak for the Nintendo 64 in 1997. They call it NormalTouch and TextureTouch.

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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2017

A new video produced by IKinema showcases Orion , their new full-body animation system that uses HTC Vive tracking hardware. By attaching Trackers in the most effective places, combined with inverse kinematics, a form of full-body motion capture can be generated; HTC themselves recently released code to illustrate this technique.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The last main entry in the series was Half-Life 2 (2004) with smaller episodic editions arriving in 2006 and 07′ While it isn’t the Half-Life 3 sequel fans have long yearned for, the fact that Valve has confirmed Half-Life: Alyx is of comparable length to Half-Life 2 indicates this is no VR experiment.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Globally only China has really experienced adoption at scale for VR and while I am not personally aware of what the market looks like in China, I have trusted friends from companies such as HTC who inform me that VR technology is widespread in that market.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 29, 2017

8:23 PM @Papapishu ✔: My HTC Vive review: Good immersion. s shitposting on 4chan in 2006 are today’s silicon valley billionaires buying elections for lulz. 12:26 PM @the_rami ✔: The whole situation with Oculus and Luckey just makes me so sad that I want to escape into some sort of HTC Vive-powered virtual reality.

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