VRScout

JULY 8, 2021

This second-generation treadmill is tailored specifically for VR arcades and industry training applications and features enhanced walking technology with haptic feedback that promises to make your movement feel more natural in VR. If you want to really feel the ground under your feet rattle, crank up the haptics through the Control Center.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Technology can augment the world around us, it can enhance the human experience, our capabilities, and also extend our reality to digital and virtual worlds. With Oculus having launched hand-tracking on the Quest this past December, I wonder how far we are from consumer-ready mind-control systems.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 25, 2017

Earlier this year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a new form of input being developed over at Oculus: hand tracking gloves. An unlisted Oculus video posted last week, unearthed by Reddit , shows the gloves in action. We’d love to know if these gloves have any kind of haptic feedback to react to actions like pressing buttons.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2021

They used their VR developing skills to create a new virtual world, where the user is not just a spectator, but a participant. Why the Need for a Virtual Reality Stadium? The Future Is Virtual for All Types of Events. Virtex Stadium is proof that people can enjoy life in a virtual world, just as they do in the real world.

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VRScout

MARCH 18, 2021

PS5 VR users can look forward to improvements such as adaptive triggers, finger-touch detection, and haptic feedback, just to name a few. Similar to the Oculus Touch controller, each PS5 VR controller features a conventional analog stick, trigger, and grip button. Then there’s the finger touch detection.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Lasting around 20 minutes, this bizarre location-based art project had me interacting with a live actor represented as a friendly scarecrow in the virtual world. Here, I took part in a chaotic fairy-tale adventure that had us fighting off virtual crows, painting 3D art, and performing a handful of magic tricks. SCARECROW VRC.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

At E3 2016 I got to see the latest prototype version of Gloveone, a haptic motion input glove designed for virtual reality. Although in my short hands-on I had no means of measuring latency directly, it felt in the same class as many of the best VR input devices out there, like Leap Motion, Oculus Touch, and HTC Vive controllers.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Earlier this year the Unity Labs team shared an incredible proof-of-concept mixed reality demo that shows the power of blending the real and virtual worlds together. We can see two other users around the table, and then we see the view transitioning seamlessly between the passthrough view of the real world and the virtual world.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The company’s titular device includes nine axis IMUs for each foot, haptic motors, and Qi wireless charging. Two haptic motors for each foot let users ‘feel’ the virtual world beneath their feet—something that could really up the immersion depending on the size of the T-Rex you’re hiding from.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 19, 2023

She told me that the jacket was a haptic device that was custom-made by her. Me wearing the haptic jacket at the booth of the experience The experience started with something that resembled a point cloud scanned from an office where Chloé was sitting down on a chair.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Oculus wants your AR/VR experience to not only be a 360 immersive visual experience that includes real time head tracking and full immersive audio during your VR experience, but would also include real time hand tracking as part of the virtual and augmented experience. That’s what I’m doing here.”.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2021

Available now as a free download to existing owners on Oculus Quest and SteamVR, the ‘Crackdown’ update adds a brand new single-player campaign to the game, one that expands upon the lore of the Blaston universe while, simultaneously, injecting the already unique VR shooter with even more personality. on SteamVR.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Interhaptics is a software company specializing in Haptics. Interhaptics provides hand interactions and Haptics feedback development and deployment tools for extended reality, mobile, and console applications. Adding a haptic layer to these interactions will only increase the immersion level of any solution.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A Fortnite data miner has found references to Oculus stuff in the latest update of Fortnite , Update 21.50. The guy, which goes under the nickname of HYPEX, is known to be a reliable leaker for Fortnite, so it is quite sure that there are now references to Oculus in the Fortnite code. Meta acquires haptic company Lofelt.

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VRScout

AUGUST 2, 2017

From haptic wearables, multiplayer VR dance parties, to a slew of mixed-reality demonstrations. Before putting on the Oculus Rift, the developer placed a headband on me, called Muse , to track my brainwaves—to monitor wether or not my mind was calm or active.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

How close are we to walking around a Ready Player One world? We get to see a VR headset, facial tracking gear, haptic gloves and bodysuit, and most importantly for Wade’s sprinting, an omnidirectional treadmill. How is modern technology setting us up to move around the virtual worlds of the future? With the SteamVR 2.0

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AllThingsVR

JULY 7, 2016

Oculus is researching new ways to bring feeling into virtual reality Oculus’s researchers are looking beyond headsets that let you see virtual worlds. A headset and audio help the illusion along, says Ravish Mehra, a research scientist at Oculus.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Oculus finally revealed that Quest will get controllerless hand-tracking input. We got to test the feature at Oculus Connect 6 last week and came away impressed. Hand-tracking is coming to Quest early next year, Facebook announced last week at Oculus Connect 6. Designing Around Haptics Limitations.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 29, 2017

Deepening the immersion of virtual reality is something many creators or working on, from finding a natural form of locomotion to delivering realistic physical feedback from these virtual worlds. The VRgluv, currently undergoing a Kickstarter campaign , is an attempt to bring affordable feedback to HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

XR brings real-world and virtual elements together like never before, to create interactive experiences which enlighten and inspire. For instance, the Oculus Quest 2, one of the world’s top gaming headsets, sold 15 million units after 20 months on the market, even during a pandemic.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

All these tools look amazing also for the creation of very realistic VR experiences, but actually, we should hold our enthusiasm: both Nanite and Lumen are not available for VR yet, and Epic has not announced any kind of improvement of the workflow for development for Oculus Quest 2, either. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

Many journalists wrote bad things about Meta’s M-word efforts: they said that Meta invested $10B just to have this cringy virtual world. As the release notes state, Oculus profiles will “evolve” into a new Meta Horizon profile, while ‘Friends’ will become ‘Followers’. Learn more. Farcana Integrates Senso Glove. Learn more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The system creates everything in the user’s environment, which may be exhibited inside a blank room via head-mounted displays (HMDs) or other equipment that helps users feel they are physically inside the virtual world. Users may utilize visual, sound, and haptic (touch) stimuli to create an immersive manufactured world.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 19, 2016

These ‘High-fidelity 3D Haptic Shape Rendering on Handheld Virtual Reality Controllers’, named NormalTouch and TextureTouch , were designed by Hrvoje Benko, Christian Holz, Mike Sinclair, and Eyal Ofek. For now, the best we have its the vibration feedback provided by the Oculus Touch and HTC Vive wands.

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HaptX

JANUARY 9, 2018

At HaptX, we periodically speak to leading experts in haptic technology, its history, and its applications. Archer, recently curated a special issue in the journal New Media & Society focused on haptics, which is now available for purchase through Sage Journals. A History of Haptics: The Birth of a New Language.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. Inarguably, Meta in 2023 is the leader in VR with combination of Quest 2 and Quest 3 likely to make it one of the hottest selling game consoles in the world. Could something rivaling the introduction of Mac, iPod and iPhone really follow this?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. Virtual Reality Guides: Case Studies. These experiences connect people to simulated virtual worlds, visualised data, and collaborative platforms to connect with others. Enhanced Headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. Zuck and another Meta employee entered an empty virtual world, and Zuck started saying what he wanted to see in it and the AI answered by crafting exactly what he wanted. “I

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

is a company that aims at using the data from the cameras of all the phones running AR applications, send them to a server, and merge them all together to create a full mesh representing the whole world. Finally, AR could become truly useful since it won’t be confined to rooms, but it can expand into the whole world. Donate on Patreon!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

high field of view, high resolution, lighter weight devices) so they reach out to manufacturers of special headsets but most of the customers do basic training using the commercial headsets (HTC Vive, Oculus and Microsoft Mixed Reality platform headsets are the most used). haptics suits ) or does a VR headset suffice?

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

Beach Body Bros – While showcasing Oculus Medium as a production-ready sculpting tool, Beach Body Bros takes you on a ridiculous musical journey through a world of pure muscle, intense strength, and stupid greatness. We’ll be live on the scene providing updates on all the best offerings.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Meta and Apple are building from different directions a path to the same future with virtual worlds to visit, spatial calling with hyper-realistic avatars, and all day augmentation. VR: Starting With Meta Quest Meta started with VR as Facebook in 2014 by acquiring Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But the difference with previous Pico controllers is that they are very well designed and comfortable, and also feature a new haptic module based on “HyperSense broadband motors” that should provide more realistic haptic feedback. vibration Battery Headset : 5300mAh, which lasts about 2.5~3 Great job Pico on this one.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

More info Philip Rosedale shows its VR pod Philip Rosedale has described on his blog an interesting project he’s carrying on about making people stay fully still on a bed and having visual and haptic stimuli that give them the sensation they are moving in a virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Then, he donned an Oculus Quest 2, put a controller on the bike, and rode the bike while doing the VR game, with the real track mapped perfectly with the virtual track. The problem of moderation inside virtual worlds. Doing moderation of virtual worlds is incredibly hard because there are a lot of grey areas to consider.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Instead, people everywhere are beginning to demand more virtual world integration into their physical environments. While augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) is paving the way for the immersive future. With MR, vendors allow people to interact with digital assets in the virtual world through sensors, computer vision, and more.

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