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HaptX Secures $12M Financing to Produce Next Generation of Haptic Gloves

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HaptX, a producer of haptic VR gloves, today announced it’s secured $12 million in its Series A financing round. Founded in 2012 (then known as AxonVR), HaptX has been focused on creating haptic gloves for use in VR, training, and robotics. HaptX will be showing off its latest work in haptics at CES in January 2020.

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Ubisoft’s ‘Far Cry’ Gets Its Own Free-Roam VR Game

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Much like the 2012 game, Far Cry VR has you and your friends taking on the roles of innocent tourists who—after a series of unfortunate events— find themselves on the run from an army of henchmen in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. Image Credit: Zero Latency.

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App Lab Gem ‘Dead Second’ Update Adding Manual Reload, Dual Wield, & New Levels

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It’s solidity is surely thanks to the experience of pioneering VR developer Sean Edwards, the mind behind the very early VR game Lunar Flight (2012) , and his studio Spunge Games. Oh and if you happen to have a bHpatics device, Dead Second now includes support for the vest, head, and arm haptic devices.

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AxonVR Raises $5.8 Million Seed Investment for Advanced VR Haptics

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million seed investment, which is claimed to be the largest secured by a VR haptics company to date. With a few exceptions , haptics in VR usually amounts to using vibration as a proxy for a touch event. To accomplish this, AxonVR has created a haptic skin that has hundreds of dots that are linked to pneumatic actuators.

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Cloudhead Games CEO: Apple Vision Pro is an AR Headset Wearing VR Clothes

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Based in British Columbia and founded in 2012 Cloudhead’s pioneering approach to VR gave rise to broadly adopted movement standards including Snap Turns and Teleportation. Inputs and Haptics are incredibly important to Virtual Reality as a major tenant in reinforcing immersion and tactile interaction with virtual objects.

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XR Today’s Virtual Reality Guide for Enterprises

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In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. Enhanced AI solutions from companies such as Varjo and Tobii pave the way for things like eye tracking at incredible speeds and better sensor or haptic feedback controls. Enhanced Headsets.

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Researchers Command Adult-Size Robot Using Vive Controllers

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The robot used in these Tokyo experiments, JAXON, is a veteran of DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, a prize competition sponsored by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects that took place 2012 to 2015. He even teases the idea of using VR headsets and haptic feedback suits to truly step into the shoes of our mechanical counterparts.