The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2021

To enjoy the haptic feedback, the VR experience you play must have implemented the bHaptics SDK , and luckily bHaptics has managed to get developers to implement it in more than 100 games. We of New Technology Walkers have implemented it into our game HitMotion: Reloaded , too, and we had a very positive experience with it.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Half-Life: Alyx and other SteamVR games like Walkabout Mini Golf and Beat Saber are technically playable with Nintendo Joy-Cons on Apple Vision Pro. A port of ALVR enables PC VR streaming to Apple's $3500 headset and maps hand tracking to Valve’s skeletal input system in Steam. But how well does it all actually work?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The global electronics firm is debuting the device for its PlayStation 5 gaming portfolio. Sony designed the title alongside long-time partners Guerrilla Games and the PlayStation subsidiary Firesprite to create a highly sophisticated VR experience showcasing the hardware’s potential. PlayStation (@PlayStation) November 2, 2022.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 30, 2024

Moreover, Meta Quest 2’s pricing has been consistently dropping, which could indicate that Meta and its partner retailers are trying to shift leftover stock before a new solution arrives. Additionally, we’ll need advanced hand-tracking capabilities if the company plans to remove controllers from the Quest 3 Lite bundle.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

The headset combines Mixed Reality (MR) and Virtual Reality (VR) capabilities into one compact, lightweight, powerful and highly versatile device – perfect for gaming, fitness, productivity and more. VIVE XR Elite includes a full color RGB passthrough camera, and hand-tracking, which enables a whole new dimension of MR scenarios.

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VRScout

AUGUST 12, 2020

The Nreal Light normally retails for 699,000 KRW ($586); when bundled with either device and a 5G plan, however, the price drops to 349,000 KRW ($295). This past March the company even introduced hand-tracking support to its developer kit, allowing creators to interact with their AR experiences with their own two hands.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On the technical side, Dennys Kuhnert (the developer behind Hand Physics lab), compared on video the performance of hand tracking on Vision Pro and Quest 3, and showed how at this moment, the Quest 3 is much better at that task. There are new games that are going to launch on PSVR 2, like Army VR, Little Cities: Bigger!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

This is impressive Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Aerial View API instead lets you put inside your game (3D or VR) the 3D maps of the cities of the world, that is the 3D reconstruction of Google Earth. The console is now available for purchase at the most popular online and offline retailers. All without leaving your editor.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2023

Hardware aside, Meta undoubtedly has a leg up with its content ecosystem, as all games designed for Quest 2 automatically support Quest Pro—that’s a lot of content out of the box in addition to the admittedly smallish drip of mixed reality experiences already on the Quest Store.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Although its well-known applications lie in gaming and entertainment , its potential isn’t limited to these industries. Tech startup XpertVR is perhaps one of a handful of companies pushing the boundaries in this field, providing businesses with unique immersive solutions. Virtual reality has gotten more sophisticated over the years.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It will also be available via Amazon and through select retailers in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan and France. Anyone who purchases a Quest 3 between now and January 27, 2024 will receive a free copy of Asgard's Wrath 2 on release, Meta's upcoming AAA VR game with a promise of '60 hours of exploration'. for gaming).

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JANUARY 24, 2023

According to Gurman, Apple’s headset will use eye tracking and hand tracking technology in tandem to drive a system that “allows the wearer to control the device by looking at an on-screen item – whether it’s a button, app icon or list entry – to select it.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

But not all the applications work well with hand gestures: for instance, most action games would suck with it. Also the price is getting closer to that plan, with the device now expected to retail for $1300. Some people have expressed a good opinion about this game on Reddit.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Each company is in a very different stage of build-out, with Apple operating globally including a large footprint of retails stores and already developing its own chips. According to recent public filings, Apple employed approximately 164,000 people in September of this year while Meta had 87,314.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Hand Tracking, OS Updates to Pico4 Headset Despite this, the company has been updating a few specifications under the hood of the Pico4 and Pico Neo 3, including its operating system (OS) version 5.7, hand tracking, and other functionality.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which was considered the biggest acquisition in gaming history. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming. This was expected… the game was already amazing on Steam.

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XROM

JANUARY 5, 2023

The headset combines Mixed Reality (MR) and Virtual Reality (VR) capabilities into one compact, lightweight, powerful and highly versatile device – perfect for gaming, fitness, productivity and more. VIVE XR Elite includes a full color RGB passthrough camera, and hand-tracking, which enables a whole new dimension of MR scenarios.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As I’ve said, HTC is not trying to compete with Quest, and as we’ll see later on, heavy gaming is not the main use case of this headset, so an older generation chipset may have sense here. Another one is the relaxing indie game Space Slurpies. It will be available via [link] as well as retailers around the world.

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Road to VR

APRIL 27, 2017

The product is described as the “first affordable force feedback gloves” that feature “total hand tracking, full force feedback, and pressure sensitivity”. The next tier at $350 is limited to 200 sets, followed by a ‘Kickstarter special’ price at $400, with the final retail price expected to be $580. VRgluv Kickstarter.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. Stealth game ‘Budget Cuts’ resurfaces. The game promises seven hours of content involving stealth, action, puzzles, and bosses. Image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy Neat Corp.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

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. The firm puts the final retail price of the product at just under $500 for the pair. Of course, when dealing with VR hardware, “cheaper” is certainly relative.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 7, 2016

Funding Roundup: Merge VR Raises $10M & uSens Raises $20M Merge Labs funding came from a whole community of investors in gaming, software, hardware and retail sectors across the nation. retail competitor called GAME.“ retail competitor called GAME.“ Read more here.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset. But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

You can access the same games and apps on the Quest 3 that you’d use on the Quest 2. Both tools offer virtual reality experiences, with powerful graphics and immersive solutions like hand tracking. You can purchase them directly through the Meta website or through a partner retailer, such as Amazon.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

HTC VIVE announced on Thursday it will sell its XR Elite mixed reality (MR) headset as a premium bundle for gaming. HTC VIVE Hand-Tracking Tackles Low Light Issues Furthermore, HTC VIVE updated current and potential headset customers that it had improved its hand-tracking performance.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! People are engaged in the device and this means that they buy games, making the Oculus Store a profitable platform for developers. They are all very interesting to be read. It’s all very cool.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

OCULUS QUEST HAND TRACKING As Quest users know, the Oculus Touch Hand Controllers are a significant step forward. And even though InstaVR can visually display hands on the screen in the Quest, it feels a little disembodied. The newly announced Hand Tracking for Quest is a huge step forward!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Launched this past November at select VOID locations, Ralph Breaks VR is a shining example of how additional haptic feedback and collaborative play can truly take in-game immersion to the next level. 2018 also saw the release of Arizona Sunshine LB VR Edition , a location-based version of Vertigo Games’ 2016 VR smash-hit, Arizona Sunshine.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2019

retail partners include Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and Microsoft, and will be available for purchase both online and in stores. Tracking : Oculus Insight tracking technology requires no external sensors or base stations for full 6DOF head and hand-tracking. Accomplished by five embedded tracking sensors.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

But at CES, a new game for it has been announced: Horizon Call Of The Mountain, a game from the exclusive Horizon IP that has been built for the ground-up to showcase the innovative features of the PSVR 2 headset and controllers. The expected retail price is $299, with the gloves coming in 3 sizes: Medium, Large, and Extra Large.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

It was effectively confirmed last month when a hotel worker found an engineering sample with retail packaging. Zuckerberg described it as “more optimized towards hands”, so expect Quest Pro to have higher quality more reliable hand tracking. Last month a hotel worker found an engineering sample with retail packaging.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 27, 2022

XR Today: Can you explain your hand and eye tracking solutions, and how they differ from others? Varjo’s XR-3 and VR-3 headsets were the first VR and XR headsets to incorporate Ultraleap’s highly accurate 5th-gen Gemini hand tracking , which features improved initialization, pose accuracy, and occlusion handling than ever before.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

They promise us wonderful connections between the digital and physical worlds, and games where we can chase cartoon characters through our own furniture. I opened up retail computer stores after that, at the height of the internet boom in 1995. Above: CastAR wants you to play tabletop games in mixed reality.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

Playing the speculation game, Robert, using the information that his sources told him, thinks that the first Apple Glasses will: Be very thin; Have a LiDAR (not sure about an RGB camera); Have one or more microphone; Feature a low-res display that will appear as high-res to the eyes of the viewer; Work as prescription glasses.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The only problem, what cables are compatible and suitable for VR gaming to make sure you don’t have issues arise such as latency. These are very cheap, retailing on Amazon for the following countries: North America, Canada , UK , Japan, Australia and Germany. For further updates, keep reading VRFocus.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

While $1 million might seem small, a piece of the fund might be precisely what some small developers need to finish off their innovative VR game and find footing on storefronts. We see this in the games industry as a whole and in VR as a consequence. Developers can send pitches to Creature now for funding consideration.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2016

With that being the case, the question to all of you this week becomes this: which of these three headsets is the best buy (sponsorship pending) at this stage of the game? Capability: The next thing you have to think about after you’ve emptied your wallet into the retailer of your choice is the performance capabilities of each headset.

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