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Vive Tracker Powers Google Daydream Wireless Room Scale Hack

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In the blog, Creative Director Adam Amaral noted that the experience wasn’t as solid as the traditional Vive setup and, since there are no Daydream games that have implemented positional tracking tech, the team used its demo for Cover Me instead. Tagged with: google daydream , Master of Shapes , vive tracker.

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Watch A Smartphone Turn Into A Controller For HoloLens

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The studio wanted the kind of control you can get with VR controllers like the HTC Vive’s six degree of freedom (6DOF) wands but for HoloLens. As AfterNow’s Jesse Vander Does notes in a blog post , the company asks that “interactions should be a comfortable 1.5 Tagged with: HoloLens , microsoft.

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Here Are 22 Games And Experiences That Support Gear VR’s New Controller

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According to an Oculus blog post today: “With the controller, you can use your hand to point, drag and drop, tilt, shoot, and more, making it easier than ever to interact with VR games and experiences. The full list from the blog includes the following, but you can see a constantly updated list of titles at this link: A Night Sky.

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Facebook Livestreaming From Gear VR Arrives In Latest Oculus Update

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According to a blog post published today on the official Oculus website: We want to make it easy to share memorable virtual moments with your friends and family on Facebook. Whether you want to share the suspense of Face Your Fears or show off your sorcery skills in Wands , you can take your friends along for the ride.

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Valve Turns Destinations Into Social VR Platform With Trading And Quests

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From a blog post about the update: Travel to various Destinations to find hidden item caches using the new Cache Finder tool. The update requires hand controllers like the Oculus Touch or Vive wands for the new features. ” Tagged with: Destinations , social , toybox , valve. You can even trade with other visitors.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

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Tundra is a company that offers many devkits employing the same sensors used by the Vive wands and now it is going to launch a Kickstarter campaign about a new upgraded version of the Vive Tracker. It will help me in keeping my blog alive and improving it day by day. We’re in 2021, but this guy is living in 2077. Funny link.

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‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Hits HTC Vive Without Motion Controls

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Valkyrie on Vive does not support the kit’s position-tracked wands, which are sold with the unit itself. In an announcement blog Lead Game Designer, Andrew Willans, stated that the developer couldn’t find a button mapping combination that was as intuitive as a gamepad.