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Valve Index turns one: all the tweaks and tricks from one year of usage!

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However, it was tricky to build at scale as the 3D printed solution wasn’t ideal in terms of small detail strength, requiring an injection mould tool and pogo pin fittings would need to be custom made with large minimum orders. (Image by Immersive Computing). degree ear speaker spacer.

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Valve Index: A good fit? Part 2 – Analyzing and improving the comfort of Knuckles controllers

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Known as “Knuckles” during their long development, these have been highly anticipated by the SteamVR community as an alternative to the HTC Vive “Wand” controllers with their simple ‘hand tool’ design and crude yet unreliable trackpads. So what is going on here? CAD Image of the booster (Image by Rob Cole).