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

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As for resolution, the company maintains the screen door effect (SDE) is diminished with the headset’s dual 1440×1600@90 Hz LCD displays, a 70 percent increase in pixels over consumer devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Ergonomic and adjustable head strap. image courtesy Sensics. image courtesy Sensics.

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Why Nintendo Hasn’t Made a Real VR Headset Yet

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There was no head tracking, motion controllers, or even games that wouldn’t have played equally as well on a standard Gameboy. ” Granted, the technology has changed a great deal since 2014, the same year Oculus Rift DK2 came out.

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Microsoft May Leapfrog Facebook and Google in VR With HoloLens Tracking

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Head tracking is an essential part of all mixed reality technology, both VR and AR, and the so-called inside-out variety in a VR headset makes set up dramatically easier. The Santa Cruz inside-out tracking prototype from Oculus. An example of the Windows Holographic user interface.

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

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It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. Can you speak a bit about your experience combining Unity, Oculus, and Leap Motion? It was daunting initially, having no experience with the Oculus Rift and very limited experience with Unity. Right hand holding the gory keys to the future.

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

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At the same time, it uses your phone’s internal gyros to provide the head tracking. Since VRidge and our Unity Core Assets both take advantage of OpenVR, it’s possible for you to build and test your project using this minimal setup. Download the Unity Core Assets and Modules. Additional latency.

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Welcome to the World’s First VR Dance Competition!

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Timoni West , Principal Designer at Unity Labs. Zvi Greenstein , General Manager and Head of VR Business Development at NVIDIA. The judges will award points based on your head and hand dancing performance, awarding between 1 and 10 points. Eva Hoerth , VR Evangelist and Design Researcher. You can RSVP for the first round here.

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Space and Perspective in VR

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Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset. Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. reflection on hand from objects.