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Experiential Technology Event Shows How Far VR Has To Go

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I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. The headset used sensors to detect my fingers, using software from Leap Motion.

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2016’s Proto Award Winners Revealed, Tilt Brush Receives Top Honour

Road to VR

Now in its 3rd year, the annual Proto Awards have shadowed Oculus’ developer conference Connect since the first event, with an aim to celebrate the best that this new immersive industry has to offer. Bullet Train – Epic Games. Blocks – Leap Motion. Bullet Train – Epic Games. But who else made the grade?

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“Our Kids Are Going to Get Really Weird” – David Holz on AR/VR in 2022

Leapmotion

At last week’s SVVR conference, Leap Motion CTO David Holz talked about how the third generation of VR/AR devices will pipe everything from ultrasonic depth sensing to infrared night vision directly into our consciousness. If you bring a wheel on the train, you probably seem pretty crazy.”. But that’s going to change.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. Dean, welcome to the show, my friend. Dean: Thank you.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. Dean, welcome to the show, my friend. Dean: Thank you.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. Dean, welcome to the show, my friend. Dean: Thank you.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. Dean, welcome to the show, my friend. Dean: Thank you.