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List of Full Body Virtual Reality Haptic Suits
A full body haptic suit (also known as haptic vest, gaming suit, VR suit, or tactile suit) is a wearable gadget that provides haptic feedback to the body. Haptic feedback,…
Foot Controllers for Virtual Reality
As Virtual Reality strives to get even more immersive, developers try their best to come up with cool ideas to make this happen. We have seen all kind of controllers,…
Sony Files Patent for Wireless VR Tracking Device
Sony may be experimenting with a Vive-style Virtual Reality tracking device, according to a patent filing from last year. The document mentions a tracker that work very similar to the HTC…
Google Daydream – Making VR Mainstream
Google unveiled many different hardware pieces on October 4, 2016, including the Pixel line of phones, Google Home, a new Chromecast, and last but not least – the Daydream VR…
Oculus Introduces Guardian, A Boundary System For Touch
Oculus Guardian in action. Photo: Oculus Room-scale VR experiences let you move around your virtual world with a sense of location in the room you're currently in. While HTC Vive…
Oculus Rift CV2 Specs
Earlier I published an article predicting the BUST that comes after the BOOM in virtual reality, because of unrealistic expectations created by tech-pushing, click bait journalism. One of the ways…
List of Gesture Controllers for Virtual Reality
What better way to explore and immerse yourself in VR than being able to touch (quite literally) your content in a virtual environment? That's what gesture-based controllers are made for…
Valve’s VR Strategy inspired in Nintendo
Virtual Reality is a baby in terms of revenues and profits compared to the tech industry, but many companies are investing either way. Valve is pushing forward with its Steam…
List of Hand Tracking Tech for VR
The Microsoft Handpose, a fully articulated hand tracking technology. Photo: Microsoft Research Virtual reality promises a lot of futuristic opportunities to everything we do in our lives – in computing,…
Gest is a Motion Controller Built for VR and Everyday Computing
Gesture-based, motion-controlled virtual reality is slowly but surely becoming the next thing in VR haptics technology. Because of the infinitely fine control offered by such devices, VR interactions are seen…