The Ghost Howls
JUNE 21, 2018
One of the biggest drawbacks of HTC Vive headsets with regard to Oculus Rift are the controllers: while Oculus Touch is ergonomic and can emulate the hands quite well, Vive has controllers that are quite big and are usable only as wands. Today, a year after the last update, we have new info about Knuckles controllers.
ARVR
JULY 17, 2020
VRTK, as other existing VR interaction toolkits, is built around logic input from controllers. Developers will have to build or find an extra module to make the bridge between the analogic hand tracking, and the logic controller input. The system is technically compatible with hand tracking, but it is not natively supported.
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The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 23, 2019
It seems that Mark is still working on that vision, so that in the end, Facebook will be able to do on its devices whatever it wants, without compromises and without control. A company of this kind, with full control and no restrictions, could do great things on the tech side, but very bad things on the privacy side.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 12, 2021
This crazy team of devs succeeded in its purpose: the news was reported on all the major VR magazines , and I talked about it myself in one of my roundups. That’s basically what VR devs do today… and of course, they all do it slightly differently, leading to 3 or 4 different ways of activating a teleport on Quest apps using controllers.
The Ghost Howls
MAY 1, 2019
This is a super-important news that has not been stressed enough by magazines: Oculus has announced a complete overhaul of its business offering, in part for the good and in part for the bad. The controllers are great and let you finally also throw objects in VR and give you all five fingers. Oculus For Business.
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
In a new interview given to a New Zealander magazine, Gabe Newell talks about the work that Valve is doing with Brain-Computer Interfaces. UltraLeap (formerly known as Leap Motion) has just launched the 5th iteration of its hands-tracking runtime, called Gemini. Other relevant news. Image by OpenBCI).
XR for Business Podcast
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. And that was with controllers. No things in your hands.
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