The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2. One month after the reveal of a “next-gen VR headset for the Playstation” (whose name is not known, but I guess it will be PSVR2), Sony has revealed one important detail of its new VR system: the controllers. The controllers will be given to selected developers very soon.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

But that first version of the glove required a third-party tracking system like Leap Motion in order to translate the movement of the user’s hands into virtual reality. The glove uses small vibrating motors at the tips of each finger to give the feeling that you are touching objects in the virtual world.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

That application became Cat Explorer , which you can download now for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Every part of the environment can be aware of everything that’s happening in all other parts, so we can design interactive elements that anticipate the user’s intentions providing unambiguous and precise controls.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

For consumers, the best you’ll get at the moment is the Valve Index controllers but when it comes to business applications, that choice is blown right open. In today’s smartphone world the open tipped glove is essential and proved very useful even for the relatively short demo. On a quick side note, notice the open fingertips?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Because if Apple is just going to repeat the same use cases of the HTC Vive and Meta Quest 2, but selling it at $3000, it is just going to fail spectacularly. Its controllers have no ring and no onboard cameras. That’s why Quest Touch Pro controllers are better. But the big question is the “how”. For what purpose?

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