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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

VR was a big part of last year with new experiences, hardware and companies pushing the technology to the forefront of our everyday lives. As for VR hardware, Naylor says, “I’m looking for something that allows the aforementioned content to reach its full potential whilst making itself as accessible as possible to consumers.”.

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Sensics Releases High Resolution VR Headset Built Specially for Arcades and Theme Parks

Road to VR

As for resolution, the company maintains the screen door effect (SDE) is diminished with the headset’s dual 1440×1600@90 Hz LCD displays, a 70 percent increase in pixels over consumer devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Front IR window for optional embedded Leap Motion controller. image courtesy Sensics.

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HTC Vive announces 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and teases hand tracking for Vive Pro

The Ghost Howls

That’s a bit disappointing and considering that in some months Oculus will release the Quest , that has full 6 DOF support, HTC had necessarily to do something. Really fantastic. But after the announcement at Vive Ecosystem Conference, we had no more info on it and this felt a bit strange.

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

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The first hardware generation attempting to solve the body feedback problem will likely use full bodysuits with haptic responses aligned to the VR experience. Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. Neural plugins: The Matrix (film). Total Recall (film).

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

VRScout

During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. Quest hand tracking is perfect for slower experiences with light interaction. In the end, I was not disappointed.

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Japan Joins Project North Star

Leapmotion

Several creative developers and open hardware studios are propelling open source efforts, working together to create a simplified headset based on the North Star design. Alex Colgan (Leap Motion): What inspired you to build a North Star headset? The post Japan Joins Project North Star appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. Once you’ve created content or an application, how will people discover it?