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‘Sense Arena’ is a VR Hockey Trainer That’s Being Adopted by NHL Teams

Road to VR

However, Sense Arena pitches itself as being a cognitive training tool as much as being about working on technique. No other tool gives you an indication of the right box control on the fly. Walk around yourself and study how you made or didn’t make your saves. Box Control. Shot Replay. Training Plans.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.19): Vision Pro is slated for January, Quest 2 is selling incredibly well, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info Photorealistic graphics are not fundamental to having a good VR experience A new study has revealed that to make the user feel part of a VR world and feel connected with it, it is not fundamental to have AAA graphics, but it is more important to create agency for the user in the world and to foster emotions in him.

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Suffolk, Carnegie Mellon Universities Join Transatlantic VR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Taking part in this research project will enable us to expand our offering to students and help more learners benefit from these programmes” Conor O’Leary, who studies computing , explained that he had found the Bodyswaps technology “really useful.”

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info Neuralink gets FDA approval for in-human clinical studies Neuralink , Elon Musk’s company which is working to build a brain-computer interface device, has got FDA approval to start testing its technology on humans. I’m curious to see how successful they will be with the PSVR community.

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Vigilant amateur asteroid hunters keep watch for menacing space rocks

Mashable VR

That's what has allowed Stephens, who lives about 100 miles from his group's 13-telescope observatory, the Center for Solar System Studies , to conduct astronomy from home, glancing at his computer screens every half-hour or so. The Center for Solar System Studies conducts research on asteroids with an observatory of 13 telescopes.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

The Ghost Howls

I’ve read that initial sensor placement needs to be within 1mm of the plotted Point location for SteamVR’s tool to work with during the calibration phase (this is done post-assembly). Tooling up injection mold tooling and assembly isn’t inexpensive even for a simple gun design. Image by Rob Cole).

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30 Best VR Games for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive in 2018

VeeR VR

This game engages the player through interactive dialogues and futuristic tools. You will be on a mission to pick up scientists studying an anomaly near Jupiter, and you must use holographic logs scattered throughout the landscape to survive and escape the planet. Arizona Sunshine. Publisher(s) : Oculus VR, Oculus Studios.

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