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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

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Colaianni told me, “the outstanding nomination process for the VR Awards 2017 is anything to go by, future years will continue to build upon the astounding work our nominees have been producing.” Leap MotionLeap Motion. Industrial Training International – ITI Crane Simulator. Cerevrum Inc.

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10 Projects That Have Us Excited About the Next Generation of VR & AR

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Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion. Not wanting to wait for the future to one day show up, Leap Motion has designed its own prototype AR headset which is made to give developers a development platform which represents the input and output experience that future AR headsets will hopefully one day provide.

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5 Potential Gear VR ‘Killer Apps’ Demonstrated During Samsung Contest

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The Grand Prize now in hand, Prenneis says the team have a number of upgrades planned for the immediate future, including a customizable interface, real-time 3D support, and integration of gesture control for Oculus Touch and Leap Motion. The full version is expected to be released in 2017. Follow the developers on Facebook.

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Microsoft May Leapfrog Facebook and Google in VR With HoloLens Tracking

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Microsoft has positioned itself across the entire space, and will drive mixed reality into the enterprise in 2017.” Voice input is something Microsoft can do , but hand-tracking is a separate and enormously difficult problem despite companies like Leap Motion working hard at it.

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PowerClaw is a Haptic Glove Ready To Freeze, Burn, and Shock You (Virtually)

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All of this however was done without any sort of tracking, a duty that PowerClaw has rested on the backs of optical hand tracking devices like Leap Motion. The company will be releasing their SDK and a number of development examples upon release of the haptic gloves, which is slated for delivery in February 2017.

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Dexmo force feedback gloves show the future of hands presence in VR

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Production stages of Dexmo gloves: Idea was conceived in 2014, the working prototype was realized in 2016, the product was ready in late 2017 and the shipping is ready now in 2019. Basically, the glove is able to simulate the forces that objects apply to your hands in the real world. Force-feedback. That’s like magic.

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