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VRvisu Lets Doctors Study Patient’s Tumors In VR

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Smith has been using an HTC Vive for the project though, instead of the kit’s position-tracked controllers, he can be seen on News 4 Jax using a Leap Motion sensor for hand-tracking. This allows him to more realistically handle the virtual tumor.

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XTAL hands on: an interesting glimpse to Virtual Reality 2.0

The Ghost Howls

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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UltraLeap Gemini review: use both hands in VR!

The Ghost Howls

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog. If you want, you can find it here below!

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.15): Apple kills its AR glasses, Oculus full-steam ahead on 2nd gen VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

In all of this, someone has created the design for a Leap Motion mount for the Index that exploits the frunk. Companies are studying foveated rendering for AR glasses. HTC has released some interesting statistics on the VR market. This set of experiment is called Steam Labs and will roll out soon.

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SenseGlove review: a nice DK1 for force-feedback in VR

The Ghost Howls

Inside the box you find: 1x SenseGlove right 1x SenseGlove left 1x SenseGlove linkbox 1x power cable 1x USB connector cable short (2m/ 6.5ft) 2x USB connector cable long (3m/ 10ft) 2x HTC tracker mounts including screws 1x manual. This way your gloves are powered and can communicate with your PC; Setup of the HTC Vive system.

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15 things to keep in mind if you have to showcase your VR game in China

The Ghost Howls

Chinese people study English in high school, but then they have little occasion to use it, so most of the time they lose the ability to understand it clearly. We asked for help to our technical partner HTC Vive, that provided us a girl, Starry, that did this as a part-time job to earn some money while she studied at University.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

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I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.