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Intel’s ‘Merged Reality’ Demo Brings Actual Hands Into VR on Oculus Rift

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The bleachers at Intel’s CES sprawling booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center were packed to the gills with eager technophiles waiting to see something incredible on Thursday afternoon. In fact, his main demonstration would use an Oculus Rift, retrofitted with Intel’s RealSense Camera.

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Smart Fabric Technology Brings Touch Haptics To The Oculus Quest

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The latest iteration of its one-size-fits-all Forte Data Glove can now be combined with the Oculus Quest controllers, integrating BeBop’s hand tracking technology with the Quest’s 3D tracking. The post Smart Fabric Technology Brings Touch Haptics To The Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

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Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.11): Samsung headset delayed, Apple cheaper Vision delayed, and more!

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And regarding the Quest Pro, he said that it has been rushed and that it has been released with interesting features like eye and hand tracking, but without seriously investing in them (e.g. More info There is a huge sphere of LEDs in Las Vegas This is not strictly XR news, but I guess can be relevant to the people in our community.

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Spatial Beats: Virtual CES Edition

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The Consumer Everything Show as we call it, attracts more than 200,000 people from all over the world to Las Vegas each year. The experience will debut this winter on PSVR and Oculus. This week, it’s all about recapping the spatial happenings at CES. She was actually in a VR suit performing in a studio.

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CES 2017 Preview and Predictions – What To Expect From VR This Year

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CES 2017 is officially “begins” tomorrow but the behemoth conference is already revving up in Las Vegas. Oculus (Facebook). What We Know: This year’s biggest question mark by far is hovering over the Oculus Rift. We will be more likely to hear from them at this year’s GDC or E3 conferences instead.

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022

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This hilarious tweet thread by Nima Zeighami shows you all the worst uses that have been of the M-word on the Las Vegas showroom. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props. Thunderbird) AR.

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