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Walmart Brings Tricked Out ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ VR Experience to Select Stores

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Walmart is continuing its onward journey to think outside of the big-box with the help of VR, this time bringing 50-foot tractor-trailers to their megalithic parking lots across the US to let shoppers go head-first into a VR experience for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

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Sony Researchers Unveil Knuckles-style Prototype VR Controller with Full Hand Tracking

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Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) researchers unveiled a prototype motion controller recently which showcases experimental techniques into full hand tracking using machine learning and capacitive sensors. Image courtesy SIE. Like the Index controller, Sony’s prototype features an open-palm design using a wrist strap.

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Most Popular XR Hand and Eye Tracking Reviews 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Whether you’re looking to boost collaborative experiences, enhance employee training, or unlock new levels of creativity the right tracking technology is a must. With built-in depth awareness, and 12-megapixel video passthrough, Varjo’s headset ensures users can interact naturally with both the real world, and virtual content.

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XTAL hands on: an interesting glimpse to Virtual Reality 2.0

The Ghost Howls

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

360VR videos and photos became a regular part of our social media feeds , billions of dollars invested in VR technology advancement, and a VR experience for everything from movie trailers, corporate training and Presidential farewells. Leap MotionLeap Motion. It was indeed a big year for VR. .

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Varjo XR-4 hands-on preview: high resolution and raytracing are an explosive mix in VR

The Ghost Howls

For instance, in a mixed reality training session on a physical plane, the pilot should be able to see the physical switches of the plane exactly like in real life The headset has now a physical button to turn it off , so it doesn’t require anymore to be unplugged every time it is not in use.

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Stereopsia report / 1: hands-on with Presenz, Antilatency, full-body on Quest and more!

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Presenz is a company developing a solution to create 6DOF Videos. That is, using its software, you can create a 360 3D video where the user can move the head. It is not tailored to shoot videos of the real world with a camera, but to create CGI videos. InVR is another nice company making 360 videos and volumetric videos.

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