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How Sound Design Can Add Texture To A Virtual World

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Sound is essential for truly immersive VR. For this reason, sound is more than just an immersive tool – how (and where) objects around you sound has an enormous effect on your understanding of where they are, especially when you’re not looking at them. Presence and Realism in 3D Space. But it’s not perfect. Sound Design in Blocks.

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These Gloves Let You Play Piano in VR—and Feel It

VRScout

Combining three discrete technologies, researchers at UC San Diego have created a glove that simulates real-life force in virtual worlds. But you could imagine it being used for surgery and video games, among other applications.”. Just don’t expect the technology to transform you into an overnight Liberace).

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Showing Off VR 2.0 at #CES2019

Tech Trends VR

So by that measure, Pimax over-delivered at CES 2019 with its Leap Motion bundle featuring 8K VR headset with built-in speakers, 200° FOV and optional eye tracking being developed in partnership with 7invensun. Pimax holds the Guinness World Record for the most successful crowdfunded VR project with over $4m in funding.

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10 Projects That Have Us Excited About the Next Generation of VR & AR

Road to VR

While there’s certainly a range of exciting games and other VR software coming soon to first-generation hardware, it feels like the market is steadily turning its attention toward next-generation technologies, and fostering a renewed sense of excitement and momentum. Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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New VR Glove Uses Muscle-Like Chambers To Simulate Touch

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In theory, the gloves could paired with other technologies like a Leap Motion sensor to simulate a wide range of activities. Our final goal is to create a device that provides a richer experience in VR…but you could imagine it being used for surgery and video games, among other applications.”.

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Stereopsia report / 1: hands-on with Presenz, Antilatency, full-body on Quest and more!

The Ghost Howls

This startup makes a nice multiplayer full-body VR game called Hide and Freeze VR , described this way: “Players take turns in playing hider or seeker. If you get frozen you are still part of the game as you can still observe and call out to other hiders to unfreeze you.”. A photo of the game engine offered by Altheria Solutions.

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