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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

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Samsung – Gear VR. Leap MotionLeap Motion. Nominees for Best use of VR in Healthcare. Starbreeze – StarVR. Nominees for Mobile Headset of the Year. Merge VR – Goggles. Google – Daydream View. Homido – V2. Nominees for VR Hardware of the Year. Somniacs – Birdly.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Unlike the Lucasfilm AR headset, which uses a smartphone to power it (like the Google Daydream or the Samsung Gear VR does), the company says this concept is a standalone, self-powered headset. San Francisco-based Leap Motion has raised a $50M Series C for their hand- and finger-tracking technology.