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‘The Under Presents’: Interactive Live Theater For The Oculus Quest

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Despite the lack of an actual release date, Oculus’ upcoming 6DoF standalone headset, the Oculus Quest, has found new trouble in garnering large amounts of attention from both industry veterans and consumers alike. The post ‘The Under Presents’: Interactive Live Theater For The Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout.

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Spatial Beats: Apple, Sony & Fresh AR Funding

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Red 6 Raises $30M in Series A funding to further its delivery of Augmented Reality military training. M contract to develop an AR system to train pilots in air-to-air combat, something which has not changed since WW1. Mursion (a foreshortened form of Immersion) is used as an immersive VR training and development tool.

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Amazon’s Jack Ryan VR Park Takes Over Comic-Con

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Upon entering the training park and receiving your Analyst ID badge, the first thing you’ll notice is the Jack Ryan Training Field , an overbearing obstacle course with a life size Bell Huey military helicopter propped a couple floors off the ground. Jack Ryan loves action—and stomach drops. My heart began to beat faster.

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HaptX Launches True-Contact Haptic Gloves For VR And Robotics

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HaptX also employs the use of magnetic motion tracking, a proprietary motion capture system featuring sub-millimeter precision, 30 DoF (degrees of freedom) per hand, and no latency or occlusion. According to HaptX, Gloves DK2 is designed specifically for training and simulation as well as industrial design and robotics.

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LUMO Labs Bringing Wireless Full-Body Tracking And Dreamscape Games To VR

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The company behind the software is teaming up with various 3rd party manufacturers of motion capture suits such as Xsens , Rokoko and PrioVR to provide the tools necessary to bring the experience on a tour to locations across the U.S. The first universe is being revealed on Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.

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Racing a Real Tricycle in Virtual Reality is Badass

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The same VR studio that brought us free roaming motion-captured Gear VR games back in May , spent two months developing this latest experience dubbed VReal Trike. The “racetrack” was surrounded by 22 motion-capture cameras that tracked the movement of the tricycle, steering and your head.

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‘Robo Recall’ Behind-the-scenes: Insights and Artwork from Epic Games

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Shown during the debut of the Oculus Rift DK2, Couch Knights put players in the body of an avatar sitting in a contemporary room. Showdown – Oculus Connect 2014 | Read More. Bullet TrainOculus Connect 2015 | Read More. Fast forward to 2015, the Oculus Connect 2 developer conference. Apparently not.

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