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SIGGRAPH 2017: Neurable Lets You Control A Virtual World With Your Mind

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I’ve used my eyes to interact with a virtual world before, but startup Neurable just enhanced that experience by reading my thoughts too. At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap.

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AWE Day 3: The Most Wholesome Day in the History of XR Technology

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The day included a discussion on how to create a virtual world society from Tom Furness, a discussion on ethical responsibility in the immersive tech industry from Professor Donna Davis, a panel on women in XR, and more. For example, how does someone with Parkinson’s navigate gesture controls? Industry Announcements.

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Take A Look At Facebook’s New VR Avatars For Quest

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Hand gestures controlled via the Touch controllers also added greatly to the conversation, allowing both users to express themselves in greater detail via body language. Because the laws of physics, in some ways, are different in virtual worlds…we’re thinking about sound. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus.

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Leap Motion's Interaction Engine Brings Natural Gestures into Virtual Worlds

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Leap Motion created gesture control for all sorts of things, including virtual reality, long ago, but developers must build in support for their tracking peripheral to use its full potential.

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“Facebook” Is now “Meta” and Other News From Connect 2021

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“In order to unlock the potential of the metaverse, there needs to be interoperability,” Zuckerberg said, followed by the casual statement that the company is developing an API for connecting virtual worlds through portals that work like spatialized hyperlinks. Sneak Peeks at Hardware.

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HTC’s Old CEO Looks To Develop ‘Social Reality’ Platform, Announces World’s First 5G Headset

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.” Utilizing this enhanced connectivity, Chou and XRSpace are launching what they promise to be a revolutionary “social reality” platform powered by the world’s first 5G-enabled VR headset, the XRSPace Mova.

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Valve Psychologist to Explore Brain-Computer Interface Research at GDC

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First was the punch card, then the command line, the mouse… and now we’ve got touchscreens, voice assistants, and VR/AR headsets which read the precise position of our head and hands for natural interactions with the virtual world.