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DecaGear CEO Shares Details on Company Background, Future Plans

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We got in touch with Or Kuntzman, the founder & CEO of Megadodo Simulation Games (which is building DecaGear) to learn more about its background and future plans. Image courtesy Megadodo Simulation Games. Along the way, with a small team of engineers only we decided to work on a new VR hardware targeted to multiplayer gaming.”

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Sixense Still Won’t Say When Kickstarter Backers Can Expect Their Rewards

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The purpose of the campaign was to raise money for the STEM System : a third-party hardware solution capable of providing positional tracking and hand controllers to virtual reality headsets. ” Rubin steered me around his booth showing use cases for the STEM hardware. ” Tagged with: GDC , sixense , stem.

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Multi-Media Artist Tripp Derrick Barnes Talks About Creating VR Experiences

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I was a part of this charity to help build homes in Israel,” explained Barnes. Barnes was unfamiliar with VR and lacked the hardware and software but he was interested in the project. So, he kept his eye out for his own hardware. While the companies are waiting for customers to buy more games and hardware.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. WILL WE HEAR FROM FACEBOOK’S SECRET HARDWARE TEAM SOON?

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2016 Disney Accelerator Participants include eSports & VR companies.

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The companies selected for the 2016 Disney Accelerator include: Ader is a marketplace connecting brands with eSports and gaming influencers. littleBits was founded by Ayah Bdeir, co-founder of the Open Hardware Summit, a TED Senior Fellow and a graduate of the MIT Media Lab.

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AR Drone Technology That Can Help Save Lives

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Yet, like all technology, it’s not the hardware that’s the problem, but what you do while operating it; depending on the operator, any piece of technology can be a force for evil. in funding) via HCL’s ETO Open Innovation Program in partnership with Consulate General of Israel to South India. Image Credit: Edgybees.

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Vive X: Here Are The 33 VR Startups HTC Vive Just Funded

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This second batch represents the latest group backed by HTC’s growing VR arm, which is investing in a broad range of teams working on hardware, content and services that could be important to the future of mixed reality. Subdream is a social VR gaming studio founded by serial gaming entrepreneur Jikhan Jung. San Francisco.

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