Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Researchers at The Human Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam, Germany, published a video recently showing a novel solution to the problem of wearable haptics for augmented reality. The post Researchers Electrically Stimulate Muscles in Haptic Designed for Hands-free AR Input appeared first on Road to VR.

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VRScout

MARCH 20, 2021

Currently, entering your password and username or typing out a message in VR means awkwardly selecting keys using your motion controllers. Those sensors are used to detect the rapid touch of your fingertips hitting a physical flat surface to provide haptic feedback as you type out words on a virtual keyboard.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Whether or not to include controllers to support legacy VR titles. Whether to allow users to full-dive into Virtual Reality, freely move around, and be active in the medium. Inputs and Haptics are incredibly important to Virtual Reality as a major tenant in reinforcing immersion and tactile interaction with virtual objects.

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VRScout

MAY 10, 2020

The lack of any haptic feedback makes it significantly more difficult to grasp objects than with a controller; grab too loosely and the object falls from your hand, tighten your grip too much and you’ll send it flying across the map when it clips through your player model. It definitely takes some getting used to at first.

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AR Insider

MARCH 22, 2021

This week, Facebook Reality Labs goes haptic, VR training and SXSW updates. For AR smart glasses to work as an all-day everyday device, AI and haptics need to be work with advanced optics within a new OS and user interface. My two controllers lit up with gratitude. W elcome back to Spatial Beats. Great script.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Using a combination of VR and haptic feedback technology, the program immerses players, both amateur and pro, in a virtual environment where they can participate in a variety of realistic drills and challenges designed to improve their “read and react” capabilities.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2021

SenseGlove, a Dutch-based producer of VR haptic gloves, has revealed an early prototype of their second glove, the SenseGlove Nova. SenseGlove’s first glove was called the DK1 and were tethered haptic gloves that use an exoskeleton attached to each finger for the force-feedback. Cas & Chary Present. Motion Tracking.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

To ensure the experience is immersive and realistic, virtual reality systems leverage a combination of infrared LEDs and motion sensors, cameras, and screens, which allow a headset to gather relevant information and present it to the human eye. True virtual reality doesn’t simply fill your field of view with new information.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2016

Striker VR’s ARENA Infinity is a haptic VR gun which can simulate various weapon fire modes and other haptic effects. Aimed at the Digital Out-of-Home VR sector, the wireless peripheral has on-board haptics based on a linear actuator.

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XROM

JUNE 2, 2023

The Leap Motion Controller 2 is the ideal hardware for experiencing Ultraleap’s world-class hand tracking. Key improvements over the original Leap Motion Controller include higher resolution cameras, an increased field of view, and 25% lower power consumption, all in a 30% smaller package for optimum placement and convenience.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

For instance, VR/AR headsets and virtual reality headsets that include mixed reality capabilities, such as the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3, are becoming increasingly common. If you want to maintain complete control over the level of immersion users have with digital experiences, it might be worth looking at these headset options, too.

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HaptX

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a new platform with an ambitious goal: the world’s first system for full-body haptic and force feedback for users in virtual environments. NSF grant to create full-body haptic feedback for VR and robotics appeared first on HaptX.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 29, 2024

Current legislation, which predominantly considers physical interaction as a prerequisite for sexual assault, might be inadequate for dealing with crimes in virtual environments. The need for laws that recognize and criminalize non-physical but psychologically damaging forms of abuse in virtual spaces is urgent.

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2021

Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). This is a virtual reality environment, delimited by 3 to 6 walls. To create the VR environment, projectors display the elements of the world on the walls. The user controls the elements of a CAVE with their movements. Computer-Based Headset.

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VRScout

MARCH 5, 2018

Whole experiences are built around immersing the eyes in headsets to explore virtual environments. Now it appears that Microsoft is working on a cane controller that could someday allow visually impaired people to explore new worlds. This VR cane is opening new worlds for the visually impaired.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. I was impressed at how quickly the Quest was able to calibrate my fingers and bring them to life inside the virtual environment.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Virtual reality tools from companies like Neuromersiv can help victims of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) regain control of their extremities, The Australian Department of Health and Aged Care announced on Monday. The solution also uses haptic feedback to signal when the patient is completing a task.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This Thursday, haptic feedback technology company HaptX secured $32 million USD to further commercialise its products following a rise in client demand. link] #haptics #VR #robotics #innovation #startups #funding. He added that the firm’s haptic glove hardware is critical in developing Web3 and metaverse services.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The Touch controllers have also received some improvements in terms of ergonomics and haptics. These new controllers feature a beefier design, making it easier to form a tight grip. No longer do I feel as though my controllers are going to slip out of my hand during extra sweaty sessions. Credit: Vertigo Games.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 19, 2024

This price includes Meta’s more advanced “Touch Plus” controllers, eliminating the tracking rings from the Quest 2 versions. Meta Quest Pro Review: The Controllers As noted in other enterprise-grade headset reviews , controllers can make a big difference to the level of immersion you feel in virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. Zuck and another Meta employee entered an empty virtual world, and Zuck started saying what he wanted to see in it and the AI answered by crafting exactly what he wanted. “I

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VRScout

MAY 26, 2021

In the early days of modern VR, navigating throughout a virtual environment meant operating a standard joystick located on your motion controller. Over the past few years we’ve seen several interesting attempts at enhancing VR locomotion through the use of haptic accessories.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 5, 2022

The SenseGlove Nova is a wearable haptic glove that enhances VR experiences by using pressure sensors to track the movement of fingers and allowing users to feel tactile feedback in their VR environment. SenseGlove Nova can be used with Meta Quest and HTC VIVE headsets by mounting the controllers on gloves. SenseGlove Nova.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. It’s interesting to see that Neurable is still around and kicking: a few years ago there was a bit of hype around it when it created an EEG-based “mind controller” for the HTC Vive.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

Nintendo ultimately sold 1 million of the things, but the technology just wasn’t there, and the dream controlling gameplay with a robo-glove appeared to have died along with it. With the newfound (relative) prominence of virtual reality, perhaps it’s time give the idea another go.

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ARVR

JULY 22, 2020

The interactions and mechanics that are effective inside a virtual environment often requires a lot of testing and feedback to feel great. Providing better haptic feedback In the context of VR, haptic feedback refers to the vibrations a controller makes. This is where Half-Life: Alyx became really useful.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 22, 2023

The metaverse — a persistent, shared digital environment where we can move from activity to activity with the same avatar, digital assets, and preferences — brings together technologies like augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and digital twins to create a more immersive, realistic and engaging internet.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 12, 2019

The Dexmo force-feedback glove is an exoskeleton that you wear to have true fingers presence in any virtual environment. It can be used both with a standard screen or an AR/VR headset, but I think that virtual reality is where this device really shines. Dexmo haptic feedback. Force-feedback. Dexmo fingers tracking.

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VRScout

JANUARY 8, 2019

It’s only day one of the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and already we’ve seen the unveiling of two never-before-seen HTC Vive headsets, as well as new controllers and tracking capabilities for the ultrawide Pimax 8K. If the Audi E-Tron accelerates, the ship in the experience does the same,” states Audi.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2018

Using an HTC Vive and a specially made controller, the ‘Holoroom Test Drive’ allows anyone timid around power tools to put on a VR headset to learn how to use the tools in a safe virtual space. Haptics were also added to the tool to enhance realism.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2021

VR remote collaboration solutions are those that place a user and/or their avatar into an immersive virtual environment. The browser-based VR remote collaboration experience can be entered with a headset, but it also works with WASD controls on a laptop or desktop, or with touch controls on a smart device. FundamentalVR.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In particular, they’ll do this by leveraging IMAX’s proprietary modular “Pod” design to bring an experience that is optimized for full-body interaction in a virtual environment in both single and multi-user mode.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

With spatial solutions , such as haptic feedback and computer vision, companies empower users to interact with digital content and tools like never before. With spatial technologies, users won’t have to rely on computer keyboards and XR controllers to convey instructions to machines. This promotes the development of muscle memories.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 5, 2022

The PSVR 2 device will include ground-breaking eye-tracking navigation that allows users to move within a virtual environment and navigate spatial menus without needing a handheld controller. The upcoming product will include various features to enable high-quality immersive experiences.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

The VIVE was designed from the ground up for room-scale VR, allowing you to interact with virtual environments and objects using two wireless hand-controllers that have haptic feedback and 360° motion tracking.

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