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SIGGRAPH 2017: Neurable Lets You Control A Virtual World With Your Mind

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I’ve used my eyes to interact with a virtual world before, but startup Neurable just enhanced that experience by reading my thoughts too. At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap.

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Kid Friendly VR Games For HTC VIVE

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But we know kids learn quickly and room-scale VR can be pretty darn intuitive. For example, when speaking with Jon Favreau about his latest VR demo experience, Gnomes & Goblins , that just hit the Steam VR store earlier this month, his developers were mindful of the ability to scale virtual worlds to a variety of users — big and small.

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From Brain-Computer Interfaces To Digital Humans: How These Technologies Are Bringing Us Closer To The Metaverse

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Technology can augment the world around us, it can enhance the human experience, our capabilities, and also extend our reality to digital and virtual worlds. But just how far are we from becoming one with the metaverse and what can we learn about ourselves through sensory technologies? Just how far away is full-dive VR?

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The Best VR Gloves in 2024: Harnessing Haptic Feedback

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In the corporate landscape, haptic gloves can offer a more immersive experience to users working on prototypes for new products in the virtual world. Gesture recognition: Some haptic gloves can work alongside artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. Is there such a thing as VR gloves?

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BMW Unveils Mixed Reality Driving Experience

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The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. The vehicle will merge with the physical and virtual world of the users.

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Doghead Simulations CEO Turns VR Social Platform Into His Own Personal Gym

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VR is not only a visual experience, but very much a physical one where your movements in the real world are matched in the virtual world. After all, he is the CEO of the company that created Rumii , a social VR tool that gives users a virtual space in which to collaborate and learn. . Great 60 min. He’s in Miami.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.28): PSVR 2 revealed, Meta working on AI and 5G, and more!

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If we pair it to the fact that this device is connected to a PS5, which is a quite powerful machine, we see that the whole system is truly the next-generation VR that PlayStation users (and not only them) were waiting for. HTC released a trailer about his vision for the metaverse. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.