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Road to VR
JANUARY 16, 2018
Kite & Lightning, the studio behind some of VR’s earliest experiences, is one of 13 developers receiving a portion of over $200,000 in ‘Unreal Dev Grants’, a program set up by Epic Games to showcase and provide financial support to projects using Unreal Engine 4. The game is currently in closed beta.
ARPost
APRIL 8, 2020
Hand Tracking in VR Technology – It’s Come a Long Way. 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.
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VRScout
JUNE 10, 2016
In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M. Their facial tracking modification technology eventually enabled the popular “Lenses” feature. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive….
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved. THE FAMOUS ICELANDIC ECCENTRIC EMBRACES VR.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 23, 2017
That’s a lot of investments for a fund that was announced in December 2015. Before Presence, Mahajan was the founder and chief technology officer of MyMiniLife (which Zynga acquired) and the founder and CEO of Toro (which Google grabbed). Above: Phil Chen was a co-creator of the HTC Vive and is a partner at a Presence Capital.
Road to VR
JULY 28, 2016
The newly revealed design differs from the most recent prototype by doing away with the rigid plastic wrap-around piece (as on the right), and opting for a head strap and cable-management system that appears to be similar to the HTC Vive’s. The technology is generally considered a necessary ‘next step’ for VR headsets.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 11, 2017
It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. The sound technology combined with the movements of our hands and heads made our conversation, even between avatars represented as the simplest of shapes floating in space, feel remarkably like the real thing.
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