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The Benefits of Virtual Reality in Banking

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What comes to mind when you think of virtual reality ? The immersive nature of virtual reality makes the often dull world of finance more compelling for people. “How?” See Also: Applications of Augmented and Virtual Reality in the Financial Industry. Why the Finance Industry Needs Virtual Reality.

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OSVR Co-founder on the Future of Open Source Virtual Reality

Road to VR

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. An avalanche of new virtual reality devices has arrived. We see headsets, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs, and body suits. For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones.

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Sensics Releases High Resolution VR Headset Built Specially for Arcades and Theme Parks

Road to VR

Sensic, a long-time player in virtual reality and co-founder of OSVR , finally released their VR headset destined to make its way to public venues such as theme parks and arcades. The public VR headset is also said to work with “hundreds of peripherals including wide-area tracking systems.” image courtesy Sensics.

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VR Prototyping for Less Than $100 with Leap Motion + VRidge

Leapmotion

63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. At the same time, it uses your phone’s internal gyros to provide the head tracking. Setup your Google Cardboard with Leap Motion Controller. Install the Leap Motion Orion software. Treat yourself!

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Design Sprints at Leap Motion: A Playground of 3D User Interfaces

Leapmotion

Click To Tweet When someone first puts on a Leap Motion-enabled VR headset, it often seems like they’re rediscovering how to use their own hands. When we bring our hands into a virtual space, we also bring a lifetime’s worth of physical biases with us. From Flat Screens to VR Interfaces. In a sense, they are.

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Triton Project is an affordable DIY AR headset

The Ghost Howls

Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. Originally I was going to make a standalone device which hooked everything up to a Nvidia Jetson Nano that could be worn on your belt (think Magic Leap One). Or even take it 1 step further and use the Intel Realsense to get 6DoF slam tracking working.

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Your Left Hand Holds the Past. Your Right Hand Reveals the Future

Leapmotion

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. What are the strengths of the Leap Motion Controller? Why do you think dystopian narratives lend themselves so well to virtual reality? Wearing a futuristic head-mounted display and being in a futuristic world is consistent thematically.