How Vive Tracker Resulted In Full-Body Presence In VR?

How Vive Tracker Resulted In Full-Body Presence In VR?

At CES 2017, we got to see the demo HTC Vive Tracker for the first time. It is an innovative device that transforms simple objects into fantastic pieces that can be tracked under VR. Developers have already begun experimenting with Vive Tracker for new immersive e experiences. The creatures of ‘Island 359’ had something spectacular to showcase to the audience.

VR and Vive Tracker

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New AR tech by Philips improves Spinal Surgery

New AR tech by Philips improves Spinal Surgery

Based in Netherlands. Philipswas busy developing something new with AR. It has come up with a solution to make spinal surgery less invasive than before. Nowadays, spinal surgery is not conducted with large incisions and screws. Doctors rely on small surgical tools and small incisions to treat spinal injuries. Such a procedure makes AR or CT scans more valuable to the doctors who are unable to…

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Style Your New Nike Shoes With AR

Style Your New Nike Shoes With AR

Gradually, VR and AR are becoming meaningful across different fields. From games, movies, retail, shopping and traveling, there are plenty of exciting immersive experiences. GAP and Asus had something new to display at CES 2017. Together, they have launched an AR app that will be the future of the mobile shopping engagement.

Earlier, Adidas had promoted their new soccer shoe using VR across…

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Vive To Spend 10 Million Dollars On Positive VR Projects

Vive To Spend 10 Million Dollars On Positive VR Projects

HTC is pretty much active on the VR front. From the headset to the cafes, everything seems to go right for it. Seeing the potential of virtual reality, the company is all set to develop the technology further. Recently, at the World Economic Forum Vive announced that it will devote 10 million dollars to accelerate VR technologies and the content. The spending will be done on those technologies…

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Uni Researchers Make Mobile VR More Simple

Uni Researchers Make Mobile VR More Simple

The Mobile VR platform has garnered plenty of audience. Devices like Google Cardboardare the inexpensive means to experience growing world of virtual reality with a Smartphone. Still, there are limited opportunities to keep oneself engaged. Interaction through hands is tough to execute on a Smartphone. The reason is that hand tracking requires costly 3D sensors that are not common with popular…

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Raw Data Game By Survios To Become Part Of VR Arcades Survios is VR game development company. It plan to debut its action action-based VR game ' Raw Data ’ across several VR arcades this year.

AR Audio Devices Launched By Stages Based in New Jersey, Stages is an AR startup. The company had showcased its latest listening devices at the CES 2017.

Audi Uses VR For The Digital Showroom Experience

Audi Uses VR For The Digital Showroom Experience

Majority of the automakers were busy showcasing their new offerings at the Singapore Motorshow 2017. However, Audi was different. It was set to draw attention through its latest VR campaign. Anna Bory is the Marketing General Manager at Audi. She stated that customers will be able to customize an Audi car within the virtual environment.

VR campaign

The customers will get the chance to customize…

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Lucid Trips: VR Egg Hunt With A High-Flying System The Lucid Trips explores the wonders of geocaching in virtual reality. Developed by VR Nerds, the concept used for the game is not different to an egg hunt.

Quick Draw: Enjoy The New VR Wild West Experience Recently, Playing With Matches launched the ‘Quick Draw’ VR game. It is a room-scale Wild West gunslinger game where you have to show accuracy with your hands.

‘ Drunk Or Dead ’ : A Different Zombie VR Game Majority of the VR wave shooter games have similar immersive experience. Many players are tired of the wave shooters as there is not much competition or a challenge.

How 4K And 8K Imaging Chips Will Benefit VR? Ambarella specializes in developing image processing and video compression chips. Soon, it will launch three new Imaging Chips that will produce modern imaging features for VR, cars, sports cameras and the drones.

How VR Is Becoming More Meaningful For Businesses? The immersive technology is making its mark strongly across various industry sectors. In November 2016, Google had launched Daydream VR headset.

Surgical Procedures Can Now Be Learned Through AR

Surgical Procedures Can Now Be Learned Through AR

These days AR headgear is becoming more and more popular. One of the newest uses for augmented reality has been found in training applications for the field of medicine. The Touch Surgery is the tech company based in the UK. It has developed 200 programs that can be used with tablets and Smartphones to train surgeons on different surgical procedures.

The latest offering by Touch Surgerymakes use…

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New VR Accessories Will Get Powered By HTC Vive Tracker

New VR Accessories Will Get Powered By HTC Vive Tracker

HTC announced a new accessory for its Vive family of the VR products. It is the Vive Tracker that will allow developers to transform ordinary objects into those objects that can be tracked under virtual reality. The light tracking system will get embedded into the HTC Vive to track the objects. It got revealed at CES 2017 in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

During the second quarter of 2017, Vive Tracker…

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Hidden Figures: A New And Different AR Experience

Hidden Figures: A New And Different AR Experience

The ‘ Hidden Figures �� is a film that will get released soon. It depicts the story of African-American women at NASA that have played a crucial role for the USA in the Space Race. The film has been acclaimed critically. Now, it is getting an AR experience as well.

The New York Timesand IBM developed ‘Outthink Hidden’ app that is inspired by the film. It seeks to highlight the lesser known…

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What’s So Special About New Shoes For VR?

What’s So Special About New Shoes For VR?

Every now and then we see VR experiences becoming more immersive for the users. Like for instance, there are room-tracking sensors that allow you to walk around in a specific area. But there is a new startup Cerevo that has some other plan. It is working on developing plastic shoes. These shoes will give the users the actual feel as they walk around in the virtual world.

VR and Tactile Shoes

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