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The hype, haplessness and hope of haptics in the COVID-19 era

TechCrunch VR

David Parisi is an associate professor at the College of Charleston and author of "Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing.". Enter haptics. While it is difficult to capture the health and growth of the haptics industry with a single number, one estimate puts the global haptics market at US$12.9

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Existing VR Games Would Look Great on Vision Pro, But Without Controllers Most Are Stuck

Road to VR

Why Controllers Matter to VR While Vision Pro has the power, without motion controllers you won’t be playing many of VR’s greatest games, which not only serve up haptic feedback, but also require rock-solid input, provided by your standard assortment of buttons, sticks, and triggers.

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CES 2024: Top Enterprise Spatial Computing Solutions

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

While the event is known for showcasing innovative products for the consumer space, this year, the enterprise XR space took the event by storm, with firms like Sony, NVIDIA, XREAL, Qualcomm, PIXO VR, and Dimension X taking the stage to highlight the latest in spatial computing innovation.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.10.14): Asgard’s Wrath redefines VR gaming, Apple glasses may launch in Q2 2020 and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Finally, we know the name of the new upcoming PlayStation: after years of brainstorming, Sony has finally come up with the original name of “PlayStation 5”. I wonder how they managed to come up with this name, I’m really surprised by the creativity of Sony’s executives. TilePop is the latest weird invention for VR haptics.

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Project Caliper: the journey of prototyping optimal controllers for VR

The Ghost Howls

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. As this year continued, I tackled different development areas (Tracking, Ergonomics, Haptics, Mechanical, Software, etc.) Image provided by Rob Cole).

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All the best AR/VR news from CES 2023

The Ghost Howls

PSVR 2 games Inner view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) Sony is handling very well the communication about the PSVR 2 by continuously delivering news about the headset every few weeks to keep the attention of the audience high. hours of exercise. Not bad if you like to exercise at home while working.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.06): Niantic buys 6d.ai, Facebook signs deal with Plessey and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Our game can be of help to everyone, so our first initiative for this month is discounting it by a lot, following the example of other indie studios, hoping to encourage more people to exercise at home with VR. United we can win! Learn more.

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