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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.26): Facebook aims at the Metaverse, Quest 2 goes MR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Acquiring it, Epic secures a great source of assets for the developers using its Unreal Engine, and also the connection with many talents. New research is carried on about haptics. My friends at HaptX , that are making cool haptic gloves for VR, have just received new funding of $12M to continue working on their amazing hardware.

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Zero Latency Shoots For Multiplayer VR Arcade Network With 24 Locations In 2017

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Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year. The team is expanding the number of players for future games to eight.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

Or Unreal if that’s your language. They get haptic feedback while they’re using the chainsaw and they understand viscerally the link between deforestation and using non-recycled paper or not recycling. For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR. I learned how to do the coding.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.09.12): Meta Quest Pro leaked, Snap working on future Spectacles, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The device, which should compete with Meta Quest Pro, is expected to feature: RGB cameras to offer AR passthrough High-quality haptics on the controllers thanks to the use of LRA (Linear Resonant Actuators), which are motors able to provide strong and detailed haptics Automatic IPD adjustment. VR Modding reaches a new milestone.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

We were talking about haptics, and how haptic vests and gloves can be used across enterprise for simulation of training, but also scent machines, and different spatial audio and things. I got the chance to use the Ultra Haptics, [which]. Literally from Sydney, Australia to New York, L.A., This is happening everywhere.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

We were talking about haptics, and how haptic vests and gloves can be used across enterprise for simulation of training, but also scent machines, and different spatial audio and things. I got the chance to use the Ultra Haptics, [which] is this device where it uses ultrasonic waves to give you the sense of touch.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?'s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

We were talking about haptics, and how haptic vests and gloves can be used across enterprise for simulation of training, but also scent machines, and different spatial audio and things. I got the chance to use the Ultra Haptics, [which] is this device where it uses ultrasonic waves to give you the sense of touch.

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