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Doghead Simulations CEO Turns VR Social Platform Into His Own Personal Gym

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Doghead Simulations CEO uses social VR to get back in shape. Mat Chacon , co-founder and CEO of Doghead Simulations , the company behind the VR tool Rumii, spent most of his life in remarkable shape. VR is not only a visual experience, but very much a physical one where your movements in the real world are matched in the virtual world.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

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This allows decision-makers to work on immersive visualizations as part of their daily operations, such as reviewing iterations of a product or viewing a digitized urban area to simulate smart city initiatives. Simulation and Training : XR technology enables realistic simulations based on digital twins.

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HaptX launches HaptX Gloves DK2 to bring true-contact haptics to VR and robotics

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DK2 is designed specifically for professionals in training and simulation, industrial design, and robotics. HaptX builds technology that simulates touch sensation with unprecedented realism. HaptX Gloves enable natural interaction and true-contact haptics in virtual reality and robotics for the first time. About HaptX .

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New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 05/07/17

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The pup simulator you’ve been waiting for has arrived, but not really. Better VR pet simulators are still a little ways away. Currently, you get soccer, dance, and an inside look into a Seattle artist studio. In Cyberdrifter you take on the role of Jack Torrents and take on a rogue AI in a virtual world.

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

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The HaptX Gloves Development Kit debuted on October 3, in New York City at Future of Storytelling and in Seattle at the GeekWire Summit. We’ve now seen (and felt) some incredible simulations created by customers with the power of this SDK across many different industries.” – Ed Foley.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

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Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.09): New Half-Life: Alyx videos and details, coronavirus makes events go virtual and much more!

The Ghost Howls

And you can get all the attention to details they had in every aspect of the game : for instance, the teleporting is not a classical teleporting, but it simulates your movement from the starting point to the end point and then makes it very fast. That’s a disaster. But that’s less than 1 percent of global ad spend.

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