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VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk

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According to Laverde, this began in 2015. While doing demos, people new to VR technology would repeatedly put both controllers into one hand to reach out and try to touch digital artefacts. For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. There are still use cases where a controller is better and vice versa.”.

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Ridley Scott’s ‘The Martian’ Gets A Full VR Experience On Vive, PS VR This Week

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Ridley Scott’s 2015 sci-fi blockbuster, The Martian , is considered a return to form for the legendary director. This isn’t a simple 360 degree experience like other Fox VR projects such as Wild ; it’s a full VR production that uses position-tracked controls. It’s built in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Currently available for free on the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift (sorry, mobile VR users), Blocks is a new app from Google that lets anyone create 3D objects without training. First launched in the spring of 2015, Kaleidoscope emerged as a global virtual reality festival — bringing audiences all over the world premiere VR content.

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Exclusive: Here’s How Fantastic Contraption VR Devs Generated More Than $1 Million

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It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls. Learning New Skills.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

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The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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Fated coming to Oculus Rift April 28th

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Back in 2015 we were fortunate enough to get some hands-on time with an early build of FATED: The Silent Oath and came away impressed by its characters, animation and atmosphere. Now the first trailer for the game has been released alongside a launch date for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive: April 28 th.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster. CES 2015: Consumer VR Takes Shape. CES 2015 brought yet more impressive advancements from VR and AR fields, and some notable setbacks.