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VR Design Tool ‘Gravity Sketch’ Launches in Early Access

Road to VR

VR-optimised 3D creation tool Gravity Sketch is now available on Steam Early Access. Developed by a group of design engineers at the Royal College of Art, the software is ‘for everyone’, but its feature set has particular relevance to creative professionals, and could become an invaluable tool for industrial design visualisation.

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Lowe’s ‘Holoroom’ Lets Customers Test Drive Power Tools in VR Before Buying

Road to VR

Using an HTC Vive and a specially made controller, the ‘Holoroom Test Drive’ allows anyone timid around power tools to put on a VR headset to learn how to use the tools in a safe virtual space. Haptics were also added to the tool to enhance realism.

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Sixense’s MakeVR Now Available On HTC Vive

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Longer, in fact, than the platform its debuting on today, the HTC Vive. Since a cancelled Kickstarter campaign in early 2014 — which raised $66,294 of its $250,000 goal — Sixense has refined MakeVR, expanding beyond its initial Oculus Rift support and adapting its controller support to include the HTC Vive wands.

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Oculus Quest Shortage Is A Good Sign For VR

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Devices such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and the Oculus Go all deliver a great VR experience, but neither of those devices really caught on and generated the excitement that the Oculus Quest has. It may not be selling like the Elsa doll did in 2014, but in relation to the past sales of other headsets, it’s making some big waves.

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XR Cloud Streaming to Break Down Enterprise Barriers, says Innoactive

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Seidl noted: Back when we started in 2014, the enterprise discovered gaming engines as a tool to speed up access to custom-developed VR simulations. ” We developed our product, and in the next step, we added cloud streaming because back then, it was just HTC VIVE and clients used to deploy VR training to a PC.

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Gravity Sketch’s Wild VR App Will Let You Draw in Mid-AirBACK IN.

AllThingsVR

Gravity Sketch’s Wild VR App Will Let You Draw in Mid-Air BACK IN 2014, a London-based startup called Gravity Sketch released a prototype for an impressive virtual reality sketching tool. It builds on the work Gravity Sketch has been doing since 2014, and is a significant upgrade to the iPad app the company released this past March.

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Bigscreen Debuts World’s Smallest VR Headset

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Founded in 2014, Bigscreen launched its social VR platform allowing users to stream movies, play video games, and collaborate across PCs with friends and colleagues. It operates across major platforms such as Meta Quest 2 and Pro, SteamVR headsets such as the Valve Index, HTC VIVE, and Windows Mixed Reality (MR) head-mounted displays.