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China shows its masterplan to lead Virtual Reality in 2025

The Ghost Howls

We all know that China is a country that is betting big on Virtual Reality. Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. Introduction.

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Hands-On With Valve’s Knuckles Prototype Controllers

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Editor’s Note: Valve has started shipping the prototype Knuckles controllers to select VR developers in limited quantities. User interfaces in virtual reality start with your hands. It’s like the Moore’s Law of motion control; each incremental improvement in tracking brings with it new possibilities.

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VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk

ARPost

While doing demos, people new to VR technology would repeatedly put both controllers into one hand to reach out and try to touch digital artefacts. Hand tracking is not really meant to necessarily replace controllers,” said Laverde. There are still use cases where a controller is better and vice versa.”. Keep Coming Back.

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Manus VR brings full arm tracking to HTC Vive.

Cats and VR

For now, the HTC Vive brings you the most immersive right out of the box VR experience out of any on the market HMD due to its excellent motion controls. The Manus is the first consumer data-glove specifically designed for virtual reality. Personally, I want to see the VR boxing games of the future.

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Manus Brings Your Entire Body Into VR With its Polygon System

Peter Graham

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process.

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Oculus Quest’s Hand Tracking Could be its New Killer Feature

Peter Graham

Hand tracking has always been one of those options that sound nice in principle, but would you actually pay for it, adding a Leap Motion device or something a little more extravagant like a data glove? It has long been known that Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) has been working on hand tracking technology for a while now.

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CES 2020 Hands-on: Getting to Grips With HaptX

Peter Graham

There’s nothing like a bit of haptic feedback to truly make you feel like part of a virtual reality (VR) experience, whether that’s a simple controller shake as you impale an enemy or feel the thump against your chest when you take a hit in experiences like The VOID.

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