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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

Colaianni says “Our mission of being an inclusive awards body for the immersive sector spans far beyond just entertainment.” Along with categories that you would expect, such as gaming and entertainment, I was excited to see a category for VR education and training. Leap MotionLeap Motion.

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Hands-On: Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Feels Great, But It’s Not Perfect

VRScout

There would either be some latency issues with the fingers and hands, or the headset would just lose track altogether, causing the VR hands to flip or spin backward as the headset attempted to recalibrate. No sudden reappearance or lag; instead, a seamless transition, keeping you immersed in the experience no matter what the position.

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Stereo Labs Unveils ‘Linq’ – A Mixed Reality Headset For The Living Room

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” It’s goal is to bring entertaining mixed reality experiences into your living room. However, we did notice more motion-to-photon latency than any of the consumer headsets, but we were told that that’s to be expected for using combining 3rd party components to create a proof-of-concept device.

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Get up Close and Personal With VR Escape Room Specialist Entermission

Peter Graham

Earning a profit from any form of virtual reality (VR) field isn’t the easest avenue to venture down, especially when it comes to location-based entertainment (LBE). In conjunction with the chairs, the Entermission system uses HTC Vive Pro headsets as well as Leap Motion hand tracking to solve puzzles.

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An In-depth Look at Microsoft’s HoloLens & Mixed Reality Ecosystem

Road to VR

But their VR strategy seems to be aiming for the bottom to low-end portion of the market with their $400 price point for an Acer VR headset bundled with motion-tracked controllers. But I do have some concerns with their approach based upon my experiences with other line-of-sight controllers such as the Leap Motion.

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Building Graffiti 3D: A Journey through Space and Design

Leapmotion

So I switched to the Leap Motion Controller and quickly got my hands in my application. The new Arm HUD Widget by Leap Motion looked good, but I knew it wouldn’t be released for some time. The novelty of seeing the menu at your fingertips seemed to be enough to entertain some people.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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Of course, not everyone wants to—or can—be on their feet for long periods, and plenty of immersive entertainment, like watching movies, is sedentary. Those interactions can be mapped to brainwaves and translated into action with almost no latency. Users might look at an object in VR and think about how they’d like to interact with it.

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