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‘The Walking Dead: Onslaught’ Developers Survios Secures $16.7M Funding

Road to VR

The round was financed by a number of South Korea-based companies, and was led by SeAH Group’s investment wing Irongrey with participation from Woori Technology Investment, KNET Venture Fund, Seoul Investment Partners, and Samsung Next. Grant to Build Full-body Haptics for VR & Telepresence Robots.

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Big XR News from Meta, HaptX, Siemens, and Apple

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Haptx to Advance Research into Haptic Solutions for Visually Impaired Groups This week, HaptX gained a Phase 1 Small Business Technology Transfer program grant from the U.S. The study is focused on providing precise fingertip rendering of virtual braille content using HaptX’s microfluidic actuation haptics technology.

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The Top VR Headset Vendors for 2023

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Users benefit from a streamlined and lightweight form factor, crisp visuals, and self-tracking controllers with access to haptic feedback capabilities. The brand also has a range of peripherals and accessories on offer, including gloves with haptic feedback capabilities.

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The Top VR Headset Vendors for 2024

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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Take a Look Inside Two Bit Circus

VRScout

You may have read a couple stories here about haptic installations they produced for Verizon with the NFL and IndyCar in 2015. In 2016 they teamed up with Samsung to simulate an in-game basketball experience for the Rio Olympics. Two Bit’s Jake Sally taking someone through the Samsung Olympic experience.

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Using virtual reality experiences to treat severe pain

Haptical

61 people randomized to the intervention group received a library of 21 immersive virtual reality experiences?—?including on a Samsung Gear Oculus headset. 59 people in the control group were instead instructed to tune their television set to a health and wellness channel that included guided relaxations and poetry readings.

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Meta and the next 24 months crucial for its leadership

The Ghost Howls

There are so periods during the evolution of a tech with a certain group of leaders, who change over time. It will work with PlayStation 5 and offer amazing clarity, next-generation haptics, and for the first time on a consumer device, eye tracking. The rise of smartphones has led to a change in the leader in the browser field.

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