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Virtuix: VR Hardware From Commercial to Consumer

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This directional input device allows users to walk, run, and crouch within a VR environment without controller inputs. The Austin-based company will sell the product to consumers in US markets later this year. The Omni One product allows users to explore VR by walking on the treadmill in any direction to reach complete immersion.

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Scraper: First Strike looks like an interesting VR action game

The Ghost Howls

Scraper is an original RPG sci-fi shooter that places gamers in the future megacity of New Austin, Texas, where they must battle renegade robots in high-rise skyscraper complexes to save humanity. And how are you thinking taking in count the evolution that headsets and controllers will have in these two years?

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Hands-On With Rewind’s Eye-Tracking Shooter, ‘Project Falcon’ for FOVE 0

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Its war-torn city wouldn’t be out of place in a Gears of War game (it’s built inside developer Epic’s Unreal Engine 4), and it’s quite unlike anything else the studio has made thus far. To do this, I’m simply looking at them and pulling triggers on a controller.

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Virtuix Faces Problems and Does the Right Thing

VRWorld

Omni is a physical reverse-shape spherical platform which allows that actual physical movement – walking, running, controls and reflects such movement in VR applications. Officially, Virtuix comes Unity and Unreal Engine 4 SDK, speeding the integration in the game or some other VR application.

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VR Training Case Study: Y-12 National Security Complex

HaptX

These allow workers wearing protective, arm-length gloves to handle hazardous and sensitive material in a controlled environment. ORETTC Instructional Technology Lead Austin Arnwine, with support from ORETTC Senior Manager Mary Lin and ORETTC Director Ashley Stowe, devised an innovative solution: a virtual glovebox simulator.