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Toward Truly Glasses-sized AR: First Look at DigiLens’ AR HUD Reference Headset

Road to VR

While the company is focused on automotive and wearable HUD devices in the near term, it’s also focusing on longer term on enabling AR headsets with more immersive fields of view. Image courtesy DigiLens. Waldern also says that such displays could be used equally well in a VR mode by simply blocking out the incoming light.

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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

TechCrunch VR

It was quite the demo (see the video below). Ultrahaptics went on to raise $23 million, begin to interest car companies , and later absorb the much-hyped Leap Motion, which, it turns out, was a match made in heaven, by uniting both hand tracking and mid-air haptics. ” Then there’s automotive.

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5 Experiments from Leap Motion’s Internal Hackathon (Including the Augmented Reality Workspace)

Leapmotion

Recently, Leap Motion kicked off one of our internal hackathons, where small teams pitch and develop quick demos over the course of two days. During the video, you can see a blue glow effect, which is part of our Image Hands asset. Occasionally, you get surrounded by a burst of thousands of stars. Utility: Swipey Joe McDesktop.

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Massive XR Environments and Transforming Education with Alvin Wang Graylin

XR for Business Podcast

HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin discusses what this means for everything from automotive design to helping children learn about the universe. Speaking of game changers, one of the other things you guys announced at VEC this year is six degrees of freedom video. Alan: I’m speechless. That is a game changer. This is incredible.

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Massive XR Environments and Transforming Education with Alvin Wang Graylin

XR for Business Podcast

HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin discusses what this means for everything from automotive design to helping children learn about the universe. Speaking of game changers, one of the other things you guys announced at VEC this year is six degrees of freedom video. Alan: I’m speechless. That is a game changer. This is incredible.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

90% of people getting a Quest for Christmas are new users for VR; Facebook has released 3 videos related to the 3 talks that it should have performed at GDC. Another great UX post by Leap Motion. This proves that the ecosystem is healthy and that developers can earn real money there; Quest is making more people discovering VR.

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