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How Location-Based VR Is Finally Breaking Out Of Its Box

VRScout

So how does VR play into this then, when the assumption is it either requires us to be hardwired into a gaming PC or safely contained within the strict four walls of our Oculus Quest guardian boundaries? The participant slides on an Oculus Quest to find themselves inside a real time Roman Colosseum before taking the leap of faith.

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Spatial Beats: Apple VR, Google Poly & LBVR Hangs On

AR Insider

Between the $299 Oculus Quest, the death of the movie theater, and the COVID stigma on shared headsets, you’d think we wouldn’t be hearing much about this right now. Currently, there is not a release date or price though the company mentioned that it plans to target various sectors such as cultural tourism and health industries.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Form factors have improved dramatically since then, and most people are familiar with the first commercially-available VR headset, then-Facebook’s Oculus Rift. Travel and tourism: Travel companies, embassies, and expos have used VR to transport people to faraway destinations without leaving the office or home.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.01): HoloLens 2 may come in September, Oculus may commercialize a multiplayer LBVR solution, HP Reverb is back and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The device also introduces haptics … and personally, I find a little funny the ide of having haptics on my bottom… I guess it has some applications in some kind of experiences… IYKWIM. Namakura says that choosing a character outside of your own identity can risk turning into what she calls “identity tourism.”>>

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InstaVR Interviews: Dr. Matthew Frew, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise, University of the West of Scotland – School of Business and Enterprise

InstaVR

Whether that’s for education or enterprise, we look at the integration of technologies like virtual, augmented, mixed or extended reality with haptics and interactive sensory touch. Dr. Frew’s team creates VR tourism app to promote island of Arran. That is to say, too much tourism kills the very thing they’re going to see.

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Reveries on The Future of VR

VRScout

For example, when Oculus released their touch controllers in December, I was amazed by how much more real and complete each experience felt, driven simply by the fact that I could see and articulate my hands within VR. The result for me and other Oculus owners was a dramatic increase in the fun factor and time spent in VR.

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

Leapmotion

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. NexusVR’s interactions are built on the idea of natural haptic feedback with your bare hands. Build Chinese. CAD & OBJ Viewer. Leap Commander.

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