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A Hands-On Review of AltspaceVR

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The following year it launched on Steam and the year after that, it was purchased by Microsoft in a bid to expand their mixed reality portfolio which has always been a kind of awkward collection. Initially, the purchase by Microsoft didn’t mark many major changes. A headset also enables head tracking. See You in VR!

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Microsoft May Leapfrog Facebook and Google in VR With HoloLens Tracking

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Microsoft’s play for command of next generation personal computing can be seen today with the announcement of a series of Windows-powered VR headsets starting at $300. The headsets planned from HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and Acer will use what’s known as “inside-out” position tracking.

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A brief history of VR and AR

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For example, the armed services must instruct men in the operation and maintenance of extremely complicated and potentially dangerous equipment, and it is desirable to educate the men with the least possible danger to their lives and to possible damage to costly equipment.

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First look at HTC Vive Sync

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The headset came out last year , starts at $800, and is hands-down the best VR headset I’ve used to so far, and that includes various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, the Microsoft Hololens, the original HTC Vive, Oculus Go, and dozens of different smartphone-based headsets. VIVE Focus Plus. Image courtesy HTC Vive.).

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VR medical visualization with 3D Visualizer

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In practice, this interactive real-time exploration paradigm has led to scientific insights that were not achieved using other visualization software (see for example here or here ), and is the reason that 3D Visualizer is one of the two most popular VR applications at KeckCAVES (the other one being LiDAR Viewer ).

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Social VR: Who Is Going to Get It Right First?

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For example, NBC Universal developed Halcyon , a hybrid TV/VR series to bring fans from different countries together to view the premiere and interact live in VR with cast and crew members.”. With our FrontRow technology we’re able to accommodate any number of participants simultaneously, and this has led to record-setting events.

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OSVR - a Look Ahead

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For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones. For example, DAQRI integrated a plugin that detects objects in a video stream. Microsoft Hololens kits are shipping to developers, but are not priced for consumers yet. A key OSVR goal is to create abstract device interfaces.

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