Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim. Image courtesy FlyInside. It’s still early days for FlyInside.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The technology allows people to create ‘virtual’ landscapes and environments that simulate the real world. However, true immersion did not arrive until 1968, when Utah University professor Ivan Sutherland, his student Bob Sproull, and others created the world’s first head-mounted display (HMD). The History of VR.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This, the company hopes, could one day give users the ability to bypass our senses to virtually simulate vision, touch, taste, and effectively our entire perception. BCI might seem like new-fangled tech, but research has been in the works for longer than you might expect.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. This new industrial-grade system offers the most realistic haptics experience to date. It marks the first commercial availability of our industry-leading microfluidic haptic technology platform.

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VRScout

JULY 3, 2016

But would this temporary New York City version be just a cheesy-knockoff of the real facility in Utah? As the doors shut the floor began to shake simulating our ascent to a higher level. Just a lame marketing ploy to get people excited for the Ghostbusters reboot? The short-answer: Absolutely not.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

More recently, I had the opportunity to try the Ghostbusters experience at the VOID in Utah. Included in this rig is what’s known as a haptic vest which vibrates in the appropriate places when you get hit by objects thrown by the ghosts you’re trying to subdue. William: “Are you real?” The most social computing medium to date.

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