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Leap Motion Raises $50 Million For Its Finger Tracking Technology

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VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. Just last week we learned about Facebook’s plan for a $200 headset that occupies the low end of the market while Google continues work on a six degrees of freedom standalone headset.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

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VR was a big part of last year with new experiences, hardware and companies pushing the technology to the forefront of our everyday lives. VR was a big part of last year with new experiences, hardware and companies pushing the technology to the forefront of our everyday lives. Google – Daydream View. Google – Tabel.

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Microsoft May Leapfrog Facebook and Google in VR With HoloLens Tracking

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The system is already used on the $3,000 HoloLens, an advanced augmented reality system, but with it employed on a low-cost VR headset Microsoft may have leapfrogged efforts by both Facebook and Google, powered by Windows. Very early prototype controllers from Valve that simulated gripping and dropping objects.

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 1: Cave, zSpace, Brogent hands-on

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In Taiwan, all western websites work and so you don’t need to set up a VPN just to use Google. How is XR (and technology in general) in Taiwan? Generally speaking, Taiwanese technology adoption has not blown my mind. I met various XR companies and associations, and I loved the passion of people in working with new technologies.

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

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Focused, acute pulses simulate sharp points; broader, more distributed ones can simulate sensations like dipping into water. The suit’s gloves will simulate gripping objects by restricting finger movement: wrap your hands around a hard plastic cup in VR, and your gloves will freeze at the point where you can’t squeeze any further.

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Reaching into 3D Data, Exploring CAD Designs, Virtual Meetings, and More

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Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Recommended: Google Chrome. Leap Opticals lets you swipe through a number of different eyewear options, along with facial mapping technology so you can preview your new look. Recommended: Google Chrome. ” Requires: Windows.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.22): Oculus working on AR glasses with Luxottica, Apple glasses FOV discovered and much more!

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The mixes of the two appear so perfect to design technological and trendy glasses that all people would like to wear. It has bought the hand-tracking company Leap Motion various months ago for $30M since the two hardware are a perfect fit the one for the other. Its peculiarity? It is the first device of this kind.

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