VRScout

APRIL 13, 2019

Research into VR’s benefits on balance and motor control continue to reveal new information. Researchers tested their VR as a controlled treadport , a CAVE-like environment where patients walk on a treadmill, harnessed to the ceiling to protect in the case of falls. ” Image Credit: K. Bo Foreman, University of Utah.

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ARPost

AUGUST 1, 2022

Users control their avatars using handheld controllers and by moving their body. It can raise your heart rate, while engaging your different senses with beautiful landscapes, fresh music, and vibrating controllers. This involved changing the way we approached our motion capture sessions to eliminate lower body movement.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Virginia Commonwealth University , or VCU for short, is the latest educational facility to install a Virtual Reality lab on their premises. Devices like this go far beyond the basic haptics offered by current VR gaming controllers, allowing users more complete sensations of surface and substance. Comment below and let us know!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We all know that China is a country that is betting big on Virtual Reality. Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. Introduction.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

As extended reality experiences continue to gain popularity in virtually every industry, solutions are constantly emerging to help developers and companies design their own immersive experiences. They can help record and edit motion captured for games, entertainment experiences, and other software solutions.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

It’s emerged that last year’s Star Wars: Rogue One , used existing virtual reality technology – specifically HTC Vive’s Steam VR tracking – to allow the film’s director to compose visual effects shots for the movie. Watch how it was done.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 9, 2017

Olson explains that this boils down to three steps: preparing the model, controlling it, and finally recording sequences for playback. People loved ‘becoming’ the object when in direct control,” writes Olson. Olson explains that there is a short setup process for shape matching but it “could eventually be automated”.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In a recent scientific publication entitled VRHapticDrones: Providing Haptics in Virtual Reality through Quadcopters , researchers from LMU Munich, TU Darmstadt, Wellesley College, the University of Duisburg,-Essen, and the University of Regensburg offer a solution to body-free VR haptic feedback in the form of a programmable quadcopter system.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Interactive Lab bring something you never knew you wanted to try to this year’s VRLA Summer Expo, virtual reality room-scale and untethered trike racing. At VRLA’s 2016 Summer Expo, the team return with a new motion captured experience with a twist – room-scale, untethered Trike racing.

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VRScout

JANUARY 28, 2019

Tender Claws , a veteran VR developer responsible for Virtual Virtual Reality , are present at this year’s Sundance Film Festival showcasing their own Quest release, The Under Presents , an outlandish narrative-driven social experience that combines interactive theatrical performances with specially-trained live actors.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

Sensic, a long-time player in virtual reality and co-founder of OSVR , finally released their VR headset destined to make its way to public venues such as theme parks and arcades. IR motion capture for VR, image courtesy OptiTrack. Front IR window for optional embedded Leap Motion controller.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

On Saturday, February 2nd, the title was host to an in-game performance by world-class EDM DJ Marshmello; attended by some 10 million concurrent users, the virtual concert offers a potent glimpse of what virtual events and virtual reality will mean for the future. million people. You can watch it below.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

???! These days are pretty hot here, but this doesn’t stop me from enjoying virtual reality. With a surprise move on a completely random day, Facebook has launched Horizon Workrooms, a VR application geared towards having meetings in virtual reality. I think that cubes are never enough… cubes are love, cubes are life.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2017

LA Noire is a unique game to say the least—designed as a sort of action-detective game, the title employed some of the top facial motion capture of its time to present believable characters for players to interrogate as they investigate crimes on the streets of 1940’s LA. Image courtesy Rockstar Games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Premium location-based virtual reality (LBVR) experience firm Sandbox VR has announced on Wednesday a massive collaboration with Netflix for a novel VR gaming experience. Solutions include unprecedented proprietary motion capture (mocap) technologies for full-body tracking and first-rate haptics for responsive gaming realism.

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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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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

Special announcements from Intel, with Kumar Kaushik, GM, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality. Equipped with custom-designed suits that integrate a complex light system with unique wireless controllers, Light Balance blends expert synchronization of music, neon lighting and choreography with breathtaking performances.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

Refract , a Singapore-based extended reality (XR) startup, announced today it has closed approximately $8.5million SGD (approximately $6million) Series A led by Sea Limited along with international family offices and individual investors. Make Hollywood-quality animations at low-budget prices with this motion capture suit.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2023

Apple Inc has entered talks with roughly six media partner firms to launch a virtual reality (VR) content platform for its upcoming headset, reports revealed on Monday. The device will feature cutting-edge visuals, haptic Sense controllers, and tethering to PlayStation devices for optimal visuals.

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

It addressed how a company can leverage haptic technology across all their virtual training scenarios thanks to Interhaptics and Innoactive technologies. VR Training defines a solution using virtual or mixed reality to transfer useful skills to the trainee. They created an immersive and accurate experience.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 29, 2021

SXSW Online 2021 includes a variety of online meetings, sessions, musical performances and many attempts at virtually recreating the interactive experience of SXSW. XR is an all-encompassing term referring to include Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality and other forms of immersive media.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR). More experiences incorporate haptic feedback gloves like Noitom , Manus or full body motion capture systems like Noitom that help enhance the extent of immersion. The big question here is what can help virtual reality submerge its users.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 16, 2017

Touching friends, lovers and the dead with virtual reality The area beneath the hotel is low-ceilinged, the air heavy with the smell of cheap coffee. Fitted with 46 haptic sensors, 14 motion-capture sensors, and an onboard climate-control system, the Teslasuit is designed to be an all-body virtual-reality ensemble.

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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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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A musician will perform live to over 1 [million] people on Roblox, using a phone for motion capture 1. And its latest update, dubbed the “Mixed Reality 2.0 The game is now fully playable without controllers, a feature that will be very important to be compatible with the headset from Apple.

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XROM

JANUARY 9, 2024

Sony Corporation announced development of an immersive spatial content creation system, which includes an XR head-mounted display equipped with high-quality 4K OLED Microdisplays*2 and video see-through function, and a pair of controllers optimized for intuitive interaction with 3D objects and precise pointing.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on. So this is a market we should all keep an eye on.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Equipped with custom-designed suits that integrate a complex light system with unique wireless controllers, Light Balance blends expert synchronization of music, neon lighting and choreography with breathtaking performances. Special announcements from Intel, with Kumar Kaushik, GM, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality.

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Peter Graham

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Originally starting out in motion capture (mocap), hardware and software solution specialist then turned its attention to virtual reality (VR) and location-based entertainment (LBE). Offering a range of solutions for VR arcade owners, this culminated in the Vicon Origin system which launched in 2018.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Here, though, through motion capture, the protagonist is a dancer who moves with grace, who not only does the running and jumping with beautiful agility, but also has a dancing button to move through tangles of vines, overgrowth of plants, and other obstacles. It all helps offset the repetition of the gameplay. Credit: Sony.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2017

LA Noire VR draws upon the same foundation of impressive facial motion capture that was a hallmark of the original; the remake offers up several cases from the original game that have been reworked for VR. And what of the, at the time, state-of-the-art facial motion capture that was touted in the original LA Noire ?

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 31, 2022

While Meta focuses on creating virtual reality environments, companies like Microsoft and Nvidia are developing metaverse environments for collaborating and working on digital projects. Virtual and augmented reality. Anyone who has been paying attention, however, will have realized that these visions often differ greatly.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Another great IP is now being bond with virtual reality, and this will be highly beneficial for the technology. In a time where exhibitions are all closed, this kind of virtual solutions can be pretty useful. A VR maker has built a pair of motorized shoes, controlled by an app , that let you walk in real life to walk in VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 7, 2018

The Oculus-produced Wolves in the Walls used immersive theater actors from the production Then She Fell in order to do the motion capture, and to help tell the spatial story using the body language of an embodied character in the story.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Transmitting haptic “signals” to hands has a long history, with some of the earliest use cases including aircraft control “stick shakers” to warn of impending stalls. Realism, in terms of being able to touch and hold virtual objects, is the primary focus of this product.

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Leapmotion

JULY 12, 2018

Animate from fingers to forearms with @LeapMotion and Reallusion iClone 7 for professional motion capture animation. This week we’re excited to share a new engine integration with the professional animation community – Leap Motion and iClone 7 Motion LIVE. Click To Tweet. Enhance Communication with Hand Gestures.

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