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AxonVR Raises $5.8 Million Seed Investment for Advanced VR Haptics

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million seed investment, which is claimed to be the largest secured by a VR haptics company to date. With a few exceptions , haptics in VR usually amounts to using vibration as a proxy for a touch event. To accomplish this, AxonVR has created a haptic skin that has hundreds of dots that are linked to pneumatic actuators.

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Patent Hints At Further Oculus Research Into VR Hand Controllers Beyond Touch

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A patent application filed today by Oculus indicates the Facebook-owned virtual reality team is researching new kinds of hand controllers. However, this new patent demonstrates that Oculus is not content to rest upon those laurels and is currently working to design newer and more powerful VR hand controllers.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.03): Quest 2 sales spark a debate on kids and VR, Apple hires XR communication rep, and more!

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Another area of concern is that current VR headsets have no parental control tools , and so kids can use them to play horror games or enjoy porn content, and this is not healthy for their wellbeing either. limiting the time spent in VR) and also offer them parental control tools. bHaptics announced TactGlove haptics glove.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.17): HTC announces Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, PSVR 2 to feature eye tracking, and more!

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base stations) Controllers : Vive Wands. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands. 749 for just the headset, $1399 for the full bundle with the headset, wands controllers, and base stations. technology (with support for Steam VR 1.0

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Facebook Is Recruiting Experts in Psychophysics To Hack Your Mind for VR

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” The successful candidate will work at a special Oculus research office in Redmond, Washington. However, for a virtual reality team like Facebook’s Oculus, the hiring of a psychophysicist indicates an interest in developing more immersive experiences, haptics and hardware. Tagged with: facebook , oculus.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

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Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. Image provided by Rob Cole). Second-generation base station (2.0)

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Y-12 National Security Complex and HaptX partner to advance U.S. Government training missions

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Groundbreaking glovebox training application leverages virtual reality and multi-user haptics On Sept. HaptX co-founder, Professor Robert Crockett, made the announcement in Washington D.C. during his presentation on haptics to U.S. HaptX co-founder, Professor Robert Crockett, made the announcement in Washington D.C.