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2018 Highlights: Award-winning VR gloves, global customers, and a growing team

HaptX

We started the year strong, receiving the Lumiere Technology Award in January, alongside companies like Disney and Microsoft. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Our haptic technology complemented their first responder field medical training module.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.01): Sony confirms PSVR 2, Facebook teases Quest 2 Pro, and more!

The Ghost Howls

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. Learn more.

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Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 Dominates Healthcare Market, Report Finds

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The company adopted the Microsoft brand HoloLens 2 AR headsets to assist spinal surgery research at the University of Utah, Georgetown University, and University of Washington. Novarad developed the training software, and the SPINE journal performed its study on the platform’s accuracy.