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Feelreal Wants to Add Smell & Haptics to Your VR Headset, Kickstarter Coming Soon

Road to VR

You might have caught a glimpse of the Feelreal mask prototype when it made headlines back at GDC 2015 , the smell-o-vision add-on for VR headsets that promised to bring plenty of scents to your nostrils and haptics to your face. Today the company announced that Feelreal is definitely for real, and coming to consumers via a Kickstarter soon.

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Hands-on: VR Goes Skydiving at iFLY – The Ultimate Haptic Simulation

Road to VR

I went to the company’s SF Bay location to try the iFly VR experience first hand, and came away feeling like I got to experience the ultimate haptic simulation. Once I was in position, with the instructor there ready to pull me into the chamber, he hit a button on the headset which switched the view to the pre-recorded 360 video.

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AmazeVR Secures $9.5M to Bring Immersive Concerts to VR

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AmazeVR , a Los Angeles-based company creating on-demand VR video, has raised $9.5 Founded in 2015, AmazeVR previously focused on building out its 360 video subscription service for VR headsets, which features a variety of content. million in funding to refocus its efforts to create virtual VR concerts.

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SXSW: Hands-On with Temporal World and From The Main Square

The Ghost Howls

She told me that the jacket was a haptic device that was custom-made by her. Me wearing the haptic jacket at the booth of the experience The experience started with something that resembled a point cloud scanned from an office where Chloé was sitting down on a chair. The experience is a story that unfolds around you.

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Location-Based VR Horror Experiences With DarkCorner

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There’s a reason the horror genre is so popular among VR developers and 360° video creators. That’s exactly what the folks over at Dark Corner are attempting with a slew of pants-wetting 360° videos supported by some captivating physical add-ons. Real-world interactive elements bring immersive horror to new levels.

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The sentences about XR I’m tired of hearing

The Ghost Howls

360 Videos are not VR / Smartglasses are not AR. The best way to trigger someone from the XR communities is talking about 360 videos and define them VR , or writing a post on smartglasses, and share it with the #AR tag. 5-10 years Believable haptics? Many marriages have broken because of this. 5-10 years AR Cloud?

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’24: Legacy’ Prequel Comes to VR

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And in true 24 style, the is one of the more violent and fast-paced VR experiences we’ve seen yet in a 360° video. “The Raid” launched this week and can be viewed on Gear VR or on the web as a 360° video.