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

The Ghost Howls

Thanks to the force feedback, the user can really feel the drilling machine in his hands (Image by SenseGlove). you can feel when a drilling machine is on). The finger tracking can be improved and it is worse than the one of Leap Motion, also because every finger has not all its DOF tracked.

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11 New #3DJam Demos: Droids and Discovery

Leapmotion

With an interactive simulation of a chemistry lab, you can try burning, exploding, irradiating, polymerizing, and more. Learn all about the effects of super-cooling. Control a Darby robot on the Raspberry Pi and a Rodeo machine with this project from Hirokazu Egashira and @routeflags. Requires: Windows, Mac. Earth Elevator.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.24): Snap releases new Spectacles AR glasses, Quest releases runtime v29, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The “most WTF news of the day” prize has been won by the University of Taiwan, where researchers have worked on a haptic device with fur on it so that to simulate your contact with an animal. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. You can now touch a virtual cat with full haptics. Years of research for… cats. Some XR fun.

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Scaffolding in VR: Interaction Design for Stacking and Assembly

Leapmotion

How could we place, stack, and assemble virtual objects quickly and accurately while preserving the nuance and richness of full physics simulation? Check out our results below or download the example demo from the Leap Motion Gallery. This releases the springs and returns the objects to unconstrained physics simulation.

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12 Explosive Sci-Fi Games

Leapmotion

According to creator Bertz ( @cbrpnkrd ), its “monochrome art style bears reference to industrial design, machine vision, and the works of Tsutomu Nihei. I’ll be honest, this was the first time I’d ever had exposure to the Leap Motion Controller. Since then I’ve learned so much and continue to learn more.”.

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‘New Retro Arcade: Neon’ Review

Road to VR

It was disappointing to learn that the tech demo I’d been salivating over for the last two years didn’t let me do the one thing I wanted it for: play video games with my friends in VR. Pac-Man (1981).

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Massive XR Environments and Transforming Education with Alvin Wang Graylin

XR for Business Podcast

HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin discusses what this means for everything from automotive design to helping children learn about the universe. I mean, if you think about it, let’s say you have a firefighter squad that wants to train together, and, you know, they have a giant field that they can simulate a real fire in a building.