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Scientists Develop Artificial Skin That Allows You To Feel In VR

VRScout

The self-sensing material forms to a user’s body, providing next-level haptic feedback. Referred to as “Closed-Loop Haptic Feedback Control Using a Self-Sensing Soft Pneumatic Actuator Skin,” the device is composed of a stretchable material only 500 nanometers thick, allowing it to form to a users body.

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Funding Roundup: Tactical Haptics Raises $2.2M, nDreams Raises.

AllThingsVR

Funding Roundup: Tactical Haptics Raises $2.2M, nDreams Raises $2.5M, Oculus Acquires Computer Vision company Zurich Eye & HTC Unveils a $1.5B Fund 1) Tactical Haptics announced that it raised $2.2M–roughly roughly $1.5M from private investors and $749,000 in a grant from the U.S. Read more on UploadVR. Read more on UploadVR.

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Are we living in a Simulation?

ARVR

Duration: To collect enough data, prolonged exposure to a simulated reality is advisable. The captured sensory inputs were: sight, audition, gustation, olfaction, and somatic (touch, position and movement, and haptic sensations). Five days seem sufficient to compare different days and allow for a general conclusion to be drawn.

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What is the Influence of Major Corporations in XR and Spatial Computing?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

I hope that they have been able to tackle this challenge because, being mainly an enterprise solution, then you really need to have a reliable base and HoloLens in that sense has taken, at least from what I see here in Switzerland, and also in Europe, they have taken a lead. I think that the hype has calmed down, quite frankly, on our side.

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Sundance New Frontier Announces 2018 Line-up

VRScout

Elastic Time / Switzerland (Lead Artist: Mark Boulos, Key Collaborators: Robin Mange, Javier Bello Ruiz) — A mixed reality interactive documentary about space-time, narrated by astronomer Tony Stark. By providing advanced haptic feedback and natural interaction, HaptX enables unprecedented levels of realism in virtual experiences.

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Attending Digital Concerts in XR with The Boolean’s Anne McKinnon

XR for Business Podcast

And yeah, the audiences there, they put the headsets on, the band comes in and plays a couple of sets, and they see these amazing visuals and they feel haptics and temperature and scent. We use everything from haptics. So explain how the haptics are working. Whole new way to explore music. Alan: So they’re live.

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Attending Digital Concerts in XR with The Boolean’s Anne McKinnon

XR for Business Podcast

And yeah, the audiences there, they put the headsets on, the band comes in and plays a couple of sets, and they see these amazing visuals and they feel haptics and temperature and scent. We use everything from haptics. So explain how the haptics are working. Whole new way to explore music. Alan: So they’re live.