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SIGGRAPH 2017: Optitrack Reveals Tracking Puck For Full-Body VR Immersion

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The head-mounted display features specifications and clarity matching consumer VR headsets like the Rift and its tracking system, powered by long-time motion-tracking company Optitrack, is seamless in allowing freedom to move around multiple rooms so you can find objects and walls exactly where you expect them to be.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.04): Apple to launch its headset, Meta unveils Quest 3 and many games, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Because if Apple is just going to repeat the same use cases of the HTC Vive and Meta Quest 2, but selling it at $3000, it is just going to fail spectacularly. More info Discover a Reconfigurable Mobile Head-Mounted Display This is the weirdest research project I’ve seen this week (thanks Ivan Aguilar for the tip).

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Intel’s Project Alloy Demonstrates “Merged Reality”

VRScout

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking.

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Intel’s Project Alloy Demonstrates “Merged Reality”

VRScout

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking.

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Varjo Expands Enterprise Headset Lineup With VR-2 & VR-2 Pro

Peter Graham

There are several virtual reality (VR) headsets competing in the higher end enterprise sector such as the HTC Vive Pro Eye, VRgineers’ XTAL and Varjo’s VR-1. Additionally, the Varjo VR-2 Pro also comes with integrated Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion) hand tracking technology.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. The visual input is the most important piece of the VR setup.

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Best VR Headsets in 2018

VeeR VR

Price ranges from $60 to $100, which is rather affordable, compared with Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. IDEALENS plans to partner with the leading human-computer interaction technology company Leap Motion to embed its next generation hand tracking technology in IDEALENS K3-E headset. HTC Vive ($499).