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Leap Motion Sees Its Tech In “Major” OEMs This Year
Leap Motion, a VR company specializing in gesture-driven input technology, announces that their proprietary technology will come to well-known VR OEMs in 2016. Although the San Francisco-based company was founded in…
Samsung Reveals “Rink”, A Motion Controller For the Gear VR
Photo: Samsung C-Lab In Samsung's C-Lab, a team of six people worked on a problem that haunts the Samsung Gear VR until this day – to have a fairly precise…
Oculus Rift Will Not Have Oculus Touch Controllers At Launch
The Oculus Touch controllers. Photo: Oculus VR The much-awaited launch of the Oculus Rift will be early this year. However, the Oculus Touch controllers will have to wait a little…
VRgo Chair Lets You Sit Your Way In VR
Working your way in a virtual environment can quite get fussy when both of your hands are engaged while having your body move to the action. In the sea of…
This Smart Ring is a Fresh Take on VR Motion Control
Gaming experiences in VR are ultimately dependent on the user's control and movement, augmented by highly sophisticated gaming control hardware. In the past, motion controls are limited to a two-dimensional…
This VR glove uses air bladders to create haptic feedback
These tiny air bladders are behind Hands Omni's ability to give haptic feedback. Photo: Rice University Tiny air bladders found their way into virtual reality with the development of a…
VR haptics glove launches Kickstarter campaign
Gloveone aims to improve VR interactions through realistic haptic feedback. Photo: NeuroDigital Technologies Extended virtual reality is a thing in the VR world – made possible by pairing up a…
Smart VR suit aims to take VR haptics to the next level
A sketch of the TeslaSuit, showing its modular components. Photo: Tesla Studios With all the promising experiences that VR has to offer, and the upcoming launches of long-awaited VR headsets,…
List of Omnidirectional Treadmills Under Development
Omnidirectional treadmills, like the Omnideck (shown), open up new degrees of freedom for VR interactions. Photo: Omnifinity Maybe the term "omnidirectional treadmills" had you asking: what is it, exactly? Gradually…
OSVR and Leap Motion Team Up for Integrated Hand-tracking VR Headset
The OSVR headset. Photo: OSVR The futuristic hand-tracking abilities of Leap Motion will soon be a standard feature of the open-source VR headset OSVR, with the recent announcement made by…