Road to VR

AUGUST 13, 2017

Oculus has added new documentation to their developer knowledge base detailing the ‘buffered haptics’ feature of the Oculus SDK, a method for programming more advanced haptic feedback from the company’s Touch controllers. The SDK supports two approaches to controller haptics, Buffered and Non-buffered.

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Haptic Controllers Oculus Knowledge Base 231

Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This afternoon, Linden Lab (the makers of virtual world Second Life) made an announcement : Wouldn’t it be cool if you could animate your avatar in real time? Or imagine if your avatar could reach out and touch something in-world or perform animations? What if you could wave your arm and your avatar could mimic your motions?

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Controllers Virtual World Knowledge Base Data 52

VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

For example, he used an oscillating fan so that the viewer could feel the wind blowing on their face. From this point in VR’s history, it is ‘just’ resolution and fidelity boosts to get to our modern consumer-based headsets. KARMA was the first knowledge-driven AR application.

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AR Head Mounted Display Augmented Reality Virtual Reality 40