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Valve Index: A good fit? Part 2 – Analyzing and improving the comfort of Knuckles controllers

The Ghost Howls

Known as “Knuckles” during their long development, these have been highly anticipated by the SteamVR community as an alternative to the HTC Vive “Wand” controllers with their simple ‘hand tool’ design and crude yet unreliable trackpads. Index controllers staying attached to the hand (Image by Rob Cole). So what is going on here?

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands. image courtesy VR First. Purdue University, USA.

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