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Trinity VR’s ‘DiamondFX’ Batting Simulator is Made for the Major Leagues

Road to VR

One of the more off-beat uses of HTC’s newly announced Vive Tracker came from Trinity VR who have taken the Vive Tracker, as announced by HTC at CES this week, slapped it onto a real baseball bat and were using it to demonstrate their baseball simulator. “We’re able to do this through a system called Pitch FX.

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Valve’s Only VR Title, ‘The Lab’, is the Highest Rated Game on All of Steam

Road to VR

For many with the HTC Vive, the game has become a go-to starting point to introduce friends and family to VR thanks to its polish and breadth of experiences. The Lab has topped Steam’s list of top rated titles , beating out other Valve classics like Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011).

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Official: Sony Sold Nearly 1 Million PlayStation VR Headsets in 4.5 Months, Despite Limited Stock

Road to VR

Speaking with the New York Times recently , Andrew House, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, confirmed the PSVR sales data. As the first company to offer such information, it means that Sony is not only happy with the figure, but likely confident that they’re well ahead of the competing Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

ARPost

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. Founded in 2007, the company first turned heads with its 2012 Hunger in LA experience. Anybody can make nominations, which are then judged by a massive panel.

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A Brief History of VR

VeeR VR

They created many VR devices including, the Data Glove, the EyePhone, and the Audio Sphere. When they licensed the data glove to Mattel to create the Power Glove, this is one of the first instances of an affordable VR device that was readily available to the general public, costing just $75 USD. .

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‘Half-Life: Alyx’ is the Best Rated PC Game of 2020 & Best Rated Steam VR Game of All Time

Road to VR

At least, that’s what review data is showing. But the results are in and there seems to be widespread agreement that it’s a damn great game. Not just a great VR game, but a great game among all games. SEE ALSO 'Half-Life: Alyx' Post-credits Scene Clearly Sets the Stage for More 'Half-Life' in VR.

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Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

XR for Business Podcast

Martin: I started 13 years ago now in 2007, and I was hired to try to make use of computer graphics into a volume production, instead of just doing a few models or images a year or two, large volumes. So it took like from 2007 to 2012. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. Martin: Yeah.

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