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Virtuix: VR Hardware From Commercial to Consumer

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The Austin-based company will sell the product to consumers in US markets later this year. Over the years, the Austin-based firm gained experience distributing immersive products to end-users in enterprise sectors like entertainment and training. The Omni One product is shipping to Virtuix’s investor community.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone from Austin, Texas, where I am attending the SXSW! The emulator lets them simulate the presence of a headset and do tests easily without having to continuously put on and off a visor. I’m having fun, listening to interesting talks, meeting new people… basically everything I always do at these events!

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HaptX News | February 2023

HaptX

The HaptX SDK provides SteamVR support, plug-ins for Unreal Engine and Unity, and a C++ API, along with a trove of haptic effects, templates, and demos, making it easy to create haptic VR experiences for HaptX Gloves. “Our fingers touching felt… well, oddly real, like sensing someone’s finger touching your glove.” Army medics.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

Los Angeles and Austin, TX-based startup called The Wave VR is building “the world’s first social VR music platform,” according to CEO Adam Arrigo, “[and] it lets anybody from aspiring DJs to Deadmau5 to put on online virtual shows that are fully interactive. THE WAVE DANCES ONTO THE MUSIC SCENE AND RAISES $2.5M. OWLCHEMY LABS LANDS $5M.

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Survios is quickly showing that they may be the heavyweight champ of VR game development

Cats and VR

During the Unity GDC party, Electronauts Audio Engineer showed the party potential of the VR software while mixed along side a scratch DJ. Insanely satisfying #Electronauts @Survios #GDC pic.twitter.com/Gj4m3ugEH3 — Austin Creed (@XavierWoodsPhD) March 22, 2018.

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Making Holograms a Reality Through Volumetric Capture, with Intel’s Raj Puran

XR for Business Podcast

Being able to simulate hazardous environments without putting anybody in harm’s way during a training scenario or training exercise is the ideal situation. There was a division of the Coast Guard that was doing training on search-and-rescue simulations. So, had I had a VR simulator, I probably saved myself a lot of money.

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Making Holograms a Reality Through Volumetric Capture, with Intel’s Raj Puran

XR for Business Podcast

Being able to simulate hazardous environments without putting anybody in harm’s way during a training scenario or training exercise is the ideal situation. There was a division of the Coast Guard that was doing training on search-and-rescue simulations. So, had I had a VR simulator, I probably saved myself a lot of money.