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‘Brilliant Sole’ Wants to Put a VR Controller in Your Shoes

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Enter Brilliant Sole , a North Carolina-based VR startup working to bring VR controllers to the soles of your feet. SEE ALSO Hands-on: 3DHaptics Achieves Compelling Directional Haptics with Simple Hardware. The post ‘Brilliant Sole’ Wants to Put a VR Controller in Your Shoes appeared first on Road to VR.

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Looking at VR in Senior Living Communities for Alzheimer’s Awareness Month

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The company helps these facilities deploy hardware pre-baked with a growing library of content either created or curated for use by seniors. However, a novel deployment case recently rolled out in a community in North Carolina – not a senior living community, just a community. Access Rendever … at Your Local Library?

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NVIDIA Research At SIGGRAPH Aims To Fix VR Headset Limits

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The second demonstration, Membrane VR, a collaboration between University of North Carolina, NVIDIA, Saarland University, and the Max-Planck Institutes, uses a deformable membrane mirror for each eye that, in a commercial system, could be adjusted based on where a gaze tracker detects a user is looking.

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The best home security systems (and the one company you'll want to avoid)

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The average home security system typically includes a camera or two, some motion sensors that can make out infrared energy, a handful of sirens (either built into the sensors and cameras or standalone devices), and a base hub syncing all of the hardware. You'll control the latter manually or using a companion smartphone app.

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How Is Virtual Reality in Online Education Used?

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hardware and software. Hardware Most of the VR systems available today incorporate a headset or a visor that takes up the user’s whole field of view, as well as optional accessories, such as controllers, gloves, and distance sensors. Thus, the hardware is made by tech companies and the software by developers.

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How Augmented Reality Can Make Aviation Safer and Better

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No, the real weak link in the chain isn’t a plane’s hydraulics or engines or control surfaces as one might expect, but is in fact the pilot itself. Even a glancing look at the controls of a Cessna 172 can confound a student pilot, let alone those of a Boeing 737 which consists of hundreds of switches and dials.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

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Moreover, digital twins are truly an interoperable technology, meaning workers can view and interact with them using a range of hardware, from smartphones to headsets. Omer Shamay At Treedis , we have witnessed the seamless integration of digital twins with XR hardware and software.