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Drifting champion tackles Goodwood with VR, 5G and one tiny startup’s tech

TechCrunch VR

Donning a Samsung VR headset, Gittin was controlling the vehicle miles away from the Goodwood arena using a teleoperation system developed by Portland, Ore., Video is transmitted using Vodafone’s 5G network to the Designated Driver remote operating station. startup Designated Driver and Vodafone’s 5G network.

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TPCAST and Lattice Partner To Integrate WirelessHD Tech Into Vive Add-On Kit

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

If you read our impressions of the kit from last year, you might remember a mention of what the group called ‘Wireless HD’ transmissions, which use a 60 ghz wifi band to send 2160 x 1200 video data from a PC to your headset without the need for a wire connecting the two.

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HTC is already killing it in 2017 with a rad showing at CES including the Vive Tracker. Also who in the hell is dotdotdash?

Cats and VR

The company showed off a video featuring Portland, Oregon VR design studio dotdotdash, one of the first developers to use the Vive Tracker. It includes a one and a half hour battery, and latency as low as 2ms. First up: The Vive Tracker The Vive Tracker will ship in the Q2 of this year. Lastly: Viveport & Chill?

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