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The Best VR Gloves in 2024: Harnessing Haptic Feedback

XR Today - Virtual Reality

VR gloves are a wearable XR accessory designed to enhance immersion with spatial computing capabilities and sensory feedback. Vibrotactile feedback enables other gloves to simulate the feeling of things like touching a surface or clicking a button using actuators in the fingers of the glove. What are VR Gloves and How Do They Work?

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Case Study: Toyota Makes Mixed Realty Magic

AR Insider

Toyota makes mixed reality magic with Unity and Microsoft HoloLens 2. This includes the use of Unity’s real-time 3D development platform across its automotive lifecycle. Its virtual pipeline starts by importing vehicle data into Unity using Pixyz. Find out more or contact us to participate here. by Nick Davis.

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The XR Eye & Hand Tracking Vendors for 2024

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The company focuses primarily on wearable devices, designed to capture information about user movement, and provide useful feedback, for immersive experiences. Manus’s product portfolio includes solution like the Quantum Metagloves, with next-level high-fidelity finger tracking provided through intelligent drift-free sensors.

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Daniel Beauchamp inspires us to do more crazy experiments in VR

The Ghost Howls

My favourite is probably the hair cutting simulator because it was so fun to build, and the end result was hilarious. The prototypes are also a way to get better at Unity. I was a die-hard Unreal Engine user, but with a lot of AR being in Unity I needed a way to ramp up on the engine. Hair simulations! That’s a tough one!

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The XR Eye & Hand Tracking Market Map for 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This wearable headset comes with a wide field of view, surround sound, and eye-tracking capabilities already built-in. Tobii also produces screen-based eye-trackers, capable of capturing gaze data at speeds of up to 1200HZ. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine.

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Researchers Electrically Stimulate Muscles in Haptic Designed for Hands-free AR Input

Road to VR

Researchers at The Human Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam, Germany, published a video recently showing a novel solution to the problem of wearable haptics for augmented reality. The researchers say their system “adds physical forces while keeping the users’ hands free to interact unencumbered.”

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Top XR Vendors Majoring in Art and Entertainment in 2022

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The vendor has one of the most compelling collections of tools and headsets on the market, custom-made for different industries like training and simulation, design, and engineering. These wearables could easily be adapted for the entertainment and arts sector too.