TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

Nintendo’s Power Glove was, to quote one of the eighties’ finest films, “so bad.” The product combines hand tracking with haptic feedback to give the user a more hands-on approach to interacting with the virtual environment around them. Battery life is around two hours with haptics on and eight hours with it turned off.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 15, 2019

At South by Southwest, Tech Trends checks out the haptic suit that promises to take immersion to the next level. . The Telasuit looks like something straight out of science fiction film. Haptic feedback is the technology that allows users to actually “feel” a digital environment. By Laura Kobylecky. It’s sleek and form-fitting.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the most exciting piece of VR hardware to hit the market since Facebook’s original standalone VR headset, offering incredible visuals, increased processing power, and a smaller, lighter design—all for a lower price than the first-generation model. Improved haptics also offer more engaging interactions.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

The attraction, which currently offers a Terminator Salvation VR experience for up to four players, is the now the face of the theater’s effort to expand its entertainment offerings beyond films. Like other VR attractions, Spaces offers up VR hardware and content that’s either impractical or unavailable to users at home.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Major hardware releases, vast improvements to software, and various other integral advancements have quietly solidified VR & AR as viable, long-term technological platforms for years to come. If 2018 is remembered for anything, it’ll be for the multiple high-quality animated VR films released throughout the year. FILMMAKING IN VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

Offering everything businesses need to create immersive environments and digital twins, the Autodesk portfolio is brimming with useful tools for the metaverse. Autodesk’s motion capture solutions are leveraged by film, television, and video game developers across the globe.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2022

Made of tough carbon fiber material, the device resembles a pair of futuristic moon boots you might see in a modern science-fiction film. Then there are games that do away with hardware altogether. This includes Ekto One, a “robotic movement system” from Pittsburgh-based wearable technology company Eckto VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

For the most part, most of the immersive technology used to create films and shows in the entertainment landscape has revolved around the creation of highly engaging three-dimensional assets for scenes. However, new hardware and tools are emerging all the time to transform what creators can do.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It was the beginning of a life-long fascination with all things supernatural, and led to a career which over the years saw him produce a series of films based on the spooky folklore of the British Isles. To call it a passion project is probably an understatement. Image Credit: R3Digital. “We

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Bennett was an entertainment industry veteran with 27 years of experience in film, television, and music. You may have read a couple stories here about haptic installations they produced for Verizon with the NFL and IndyCar in 2015. Bushnell is an engineer, entrepreneur, and son of Atari founder, Nolan Bushnell.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

To mimic the tactile feedback that you experience in real life, you’ll need sensors and haptics all over your body or at least in significant areas, like the face, hands, and feet. The first hardware generation attempting to solve the body feedback problem will likely use full bodysuits with haptic responses aligned to the VR experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2023

The device will feature cutting-edge visuals, haptic Sense controllers, and tethering to PlayStation devices for optimal visuals. The app allowed iOS users to scan QR codes to watch AR visualisations on short films the company produced. Sony recently unveiled plans to debut its PlayStation VR (PSVR) 2 in early 2023.

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2017

Haptic feedback is activated as you strike or block opponents, while an inertial measurement unit sends rotational information from the controller to the smartphone to assist the beam in remaining stable mid-swing. Players can hone their skills in strategy and tactics as they engage in battles.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

SEE ALSO Hands-on: Go Touch VR's Haptic Feedback is So Simple You'll Wonder Why You Didn't Think of it First. Greenlight Insights has forecast that location-based virtual reality, including hardware, software, and services, will soon surpass $1 billion. New VR Arcade Summit Informs Effective Location-Based VR Strategy.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

So these virtual experiences that are blending digital representations of people, places, and things are heavily dependent on the hardware you are using. For training, such as for surgical simulations Film and TV?—?For Examples of VR & AR in industries including: Healthcare?—?For

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HaptX

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The new trailer had dropped, and it showed a set of haptic VR gloves worn by protagonist Wade Watts. Having read the book, I wasn’t surprised to see haptic gloves featured in the movie; I was surprised to see them shown prominently in the trailer. VR Gloves become Haptic Gloves. The Clownfish Boom of ‘03.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Now, a little under four years since the big names in hardware released their first generation consumer headsets, we live in a time when a number of VR games have actually approached the best that any gaming platform has to offer. Here too, great haptic and audio feedback make this feel awesome and satisfying. Developer : ILMxLab.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The VR industry has exploded with groundbreaking storytelling projects, hardware, and platforms that have shone a light on physically disabled individuals worldwide. “This critically acclaimed and haptically enhanced virtual reality experience transforms you into a majestic rainforest tree.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

These changes will also impact Reality Labs and CTO Andrew Bosworth is deciding these days which hardware projects to kill during this spending review operation. Manus starts preordering for its Quantum Metagloves haptic gloves, priced at $9,000. The new film in the Marvel Universe… the one you don’t want to watch… Funny link.

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HaptX

JANUARY 18, 2018

Once a year, a quiet town in the hills outside Salt Lake City usurps Hollywood as the center of film and media. In the forty years since the Sundance Film Festival began, the event has refashioned the landscape of Park City and reshaped independent film. Sundance is now more than a film festival.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Laetitia also added: We might use them in rehab centres in all these digital health centres that are popping up here in hospitals and institutions, we’re using more and more [XR devices], or even building new rooms dedicated to that type of rehab with MR and haptics.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Hans Zimmer (Film score composer). As new headsets become available with higher quality visual displays, it wouldn’t be a stretch to posit that a high-quality display should be matched with high-quality audio (and high-quality haptics), to provide sensory consistency in Virtual Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Meta plans to fight Apple thanks to the help of LG, a company that has deep expertise in manufacturing hardware and displays. This seems a smart decision to me: Meta needs this kind of partner to be able to improve its hardware manufacturing capabilities, and LG is a solid one.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Hand-tracking on the Quest without the need for any type of additional hardware shows a lot of promise for the future of the Quest and VR as a whole. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always thought that VR experiences should require less hardware, but now that we are here, I’m thinking that maybe we do need the controller.

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

To maintain the integrity of the video we decided that all compositing would be handled in real-time as we filmed. Additionally, we would film using a functioning HaptX Gloves Development Kit (no props), and feature VR environments developed with the HaptX SDK in both Unity and Unreal. Let the testing begin. Would any of this work?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It is also the time when all magazines create a list of “best of” the year and give awards to the best content and hardware … about which there is always someone that doesn’t agree. Somnium Space gives detail on its new hardware. The second one is a device that should be presented at CES: the OWO haptic suit.

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Road to VR

JULY 19, 2017

You’ll hear directly from Oculus hardware, software, and product engineering teams—including everyone’s favorite unscripted keynote and live VR app reviews from John Carmack. Future: From optics and haptics to AI and emerging applications, speculate on VR’s third wave with research and thought leadership at the bleeding edge.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. That Damn Battery Arguably the fiercest hardware debate right now in the industry is what to do with the damn battery.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron: I've noticed that -- and this is a bit of a sideways way to look at it -- I've noticed that, with companies that come in and they're looking to dip their toe into virtual reality or augmented reality, that sometimes they fall into the trap of investing so much into the hardware. And now they've got an accurate size of who you are.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron: I've noticed that -- and this is a bit of a sideways way to look at it -- I've noticed that, with companies that come in and they're looking to dip their toe into virtual reality or augmented reality, that sometimes they fall into the trap of investing so much into the hardware. And now they've got an accurate size of who you are.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron: I've noticed that -- and this is a bit of a sideways way to look at it -- I've noticed that, with companies that come in and they're looking to dip their toe into virtual reality or augmented reality, that sometimes they fall into the trap of investing so much into the hardware. And now they've got an accurate size of who you are.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron: I've noticed that -- and this is a bit of a sideways way to look at it -- I've noticed that, with companies that come in and they're looking to dip their toe into virtual reality or augmented reality, that sometimes they fall into the trap of investing so much into the hardware. And now they've got an accurate size of who you are.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

My background is in film. So before I was a teacher, I worked in the film industry. So I've always done a lot of film projects with kids. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. You've got very simple haptics; I can feel that I've stepped off of the mat, so therefore, I need to stop.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

My background is in film. So before I was a teacher, I worked in the film industry. So I've always done a lot of film projects with kids. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. You've got very simple haptics; I can feel that I've stepped off of the mat, so therefore, I need to stop.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 6, 2020

Valve has updated the way it detects the VR hardware connected to a PC, and so it is now able to offer a more reliable picture of the PC VR landscape in its usual monthly hardware survey. Look for the world called “VRrOOm Arts, Films and Fun” on VRChat, and enjoy your movies! There are around 1.3M PC VR headsets on Steam.

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InstaVR

JANUARY 7, 2019

Whether that’s for education or enterprise, we look at the integration of technologies like virtual, augmented, mixed or extended reality with haptics and interactive sensory touch. Question: What kind of hardware are you using for image and video capture? . Question: What is your primary approach to filming in 360?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

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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