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Miranda: A Live Steampunk VR Opera Where You Play As Judge & Jury

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Miranda: A Steampunk VR Experience is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between LUMA , Tri-Cities Opera , Enhance VR , and Opera Omaha that blends the worlds of theater, VR, opera, and a live motion-capture for a unique experience that will have you putting on your sleuthing hat to solve a mysterious murder. You can get yours here.

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Sandbox is Building an SDK so Anyone Can Create for Its VR Attraction Platform

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Company CTO Idan Beck says its Sandbox SDK will have capabilities like “high-performance inverse kinematics, rigging, and motion capture capabilities,” and will include support for Unreal Engine, Unity, and Native.

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HTC VIVE Debuts Ultimate Trackers, FOTA 6 Update

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XR headset manufacturer HTC VIVE has debuted its VIVE Ultimate Tracker, which will offer users multiple vantage points for body tracking, Shen Ye, Global Head of Product, HTC VIVE announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Building on the successes of the HTC VIVE Tracker 3.0, ” HTC VIVE FOTA 6.0 Named FOTA 6.0,

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

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A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. FCC certifications are requested before releasing an electronic device in the US (to certify that it is safe to be used), so this is a clear sign that HTC is going to release a new headset soon.

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HTC Releases Full Body Tracking Code for Use with Vive and Trackers

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HTC Vive Senior Engineer James Xiong has provided a Vive IK Demo on GitHub , which includes a reference source code and Unity demo. Using the HTC Vive headset and controllers combined with three Vive Trackers, the program uses hardware tracking and inverse kinematics to pose a virtual model that closely matches the human player.

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Refract raises $8.5M SGD funding, announces new game development division 

TechCrunch VR

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. This addresses common issues like occlusion and space requirements of systems such as HTC Vive,” Chng told TechCrunch. Everything is on the body, with proprietary inside-out tracking capability.

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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. IR motion capture for VR, image courtesy OptiTrack. image courtesy Sensics.