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VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk

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Hand Tracking in VR Technology – It’s Come a Long Way. While doing demos, people new to VR technology would repeatedly put both controllers into one hand to reach out and try to touch digital artefacts. The VR technology behind these SDKs allows eye and lip tracking, pass through cameras, and hand tracking.

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Google & Snap

AR Insider

The product is a 3D modeling software for PC VR and Oculus Quest headsets. Gabe Newell, Valve’s CEO, believes this technology will create a new road to immersive, high-fidelity experiences by having the brain read technologies built into a headset. HaptX Ready To Ship Enterprise Data Gloves. Snap acquires Ariel AI.

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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

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Our panelists included John Hanke, CEO of Niantic Labs and co-creator of Pokémon Go; Ralph Osterhout, CEO of Osterhout Design Group, maker of augmented reality glasses; and John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries, maker of the Mezzanine collaboration software and science advisor for the film Minority Report.

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China shows its masterplan to lead Virtual Reality in 2025

The Ghost Howls

The Chinese VR ecosystem is very active and it is evolving pretty fast: this summer I have been in China and I met some cool startups that are working on software (e.g. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology states that Virtual Reality is something that can have a profound impact on people’s life.

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Manus VR brings full arm tracking to HTC Vive.

Cats and VR

The Manus is the first consumer data-glove specifically designed for virtual reality. It tracks hand movement using a combination of high-tech sensors all contained inside the glove. With this technology, The Manus provides accurate and reliable hand tracking. Personally, I want to see the VR boxing games of the future.

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Manus Brings Your Entire Body Into VR With its Polygon System

Peter Graham

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. Manus VR , the company which makes enterprise-grade data gloves, is almost ready to release its solution to this challenge, Manus Polygon.

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Hands-On: Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 Is A Serious Improvement, Pre-Orders Now Shipping

VRScout

When talking with Sullivan, he informed me that the HoloLens 2 does have the capability of giving users a digital haptic experience through third-party devices such as BeBops Sensors Forte Data Glove. . The potential of the larger FOV really stood out during a demo of Spatial ’s collaborative AR software.

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