Road to VR
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Today at the Steam Dev Days conference in Seattle, Valve is showing off brand new prototypes of its Steam VR controllers. Today’s HTC Vive controllers are bulky compared to what’s coming. The controllers can be seen dotted in uncovered SteamVR Tracking sensors, just like prototypes of the original controller.
Road to VR
JUNE 25, 2018
Alongside the reveal of the revamped Knuckles controllers that Valve shared last week, third party developers have confirmed they’ve begun receiving the new EV2 version of the controller. Knuckles EV2 is the latest iteration of Valve’s in-development VR controller. ” Image courtesy @AntonHand.
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Road to VR
OCTOBER 3, 2018
” Images seem to support the claim that the dev kit itself hasn’t slimmed down substantially however, as the kit itself is still heavily reliant on a central control box and of-the-shelf Vive Trackers to give the user’s hands positional tracking. million in seed funding in its opening financing round in late 2016.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 8, 2016
What this means is that when you place a virtual object on your hand, you would feel pressure at many points of contact instead of just a general vibration from a controller. Using a Vive controller in my other hand, I was able to place a variety of objects on my virtual hand and feel the corresponding pressure response from the HaptX skin.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 1, 2019
Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Facebook paid between $500 million and $1 billion for the early-stage company, CNBC reported, acquiring technology that could potentially control computer glasses without a touchscreen, keyboard, or mouse.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Business leaders gathered at this year’s Seattle based IMMERSE Summit ( previously Sea VR ) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. SEE ALSO Madrona Venture Group on Why Seattle is a Hotbed for VR and AR.
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. 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.
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