Motion Sensing Peripherals
ManoMotion Brings Hand Gesture Input to Apple’s ARKit
ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they're integrated their company's smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit, making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone's onboard processors and...
AxonVR is Building a Haptic Holodeck Powered by NVIDIA PhysX
AxonVR, the company currently working on a full-body haptic solution for VR, are on their way to bringing their technology to an ever-widening audience. Announced today via an official NVIDIA blogpost, AxonVR says that the company's fledgling haptic engine is actually built on...
Oculus Touch Price Revealed in London GAME Store
Touch, the long awaited natural input controller for the Oculus Rift, still doesn't have an official price or release date—but a tweet from Nick Summers, associate editor at Engadget UK, has revealed that Oculus Touch is going to be priced...
One Year Later, Oculus and Valve Still Mum on Timeline to Open Tracking to Third-parties
Both Oculus and Valve have gone on the record to say that they'd be opening up their respective tracking systems for third-parties to make use of, but after a year, neither company is ready to talk specifics.
So called '6DOF'...
Leap Motion Launches Overhauled Hand Tracking Engine That’s Made for VR
Leap Motion formed prior to the VR craze, but it turns out that their goal of allowing you to use your own hands as a way to interact with computers jived quite nicely with virtual reality. In recent years...
Hands On: The Martian VR Experience is a Triumph in Motion
We went hands on with the new, real-time, VR experience inspired by the Ridley Scott movie 'The Martian' and found its mix of high production values, motion controllers combined with motion chairs seriously compelling.
Ridley Scott's The Martian is a...
Close Up With ‘Rink’, Gear VR’s Prototype Motion Controller
We caught up with the developers of Rink, a new wireless motion controller that uses a combination of magnetic field enabled positional tracking and infra-red finger tracking.
Here's a closer look at the new motion controllers which we wrote about...
Watch Samsung’s Gear VR Motion Controllers ‘Rink’ in Action
Watch this new video released by Samsung which shows their newly announced Rink VR motion controllers for Gear VR called Rink.
Samsung's announcement of a set of new motion controllers, designed specifically for virtual reality headset Gear VR was certainly...
More Images of ‘Rink’, Samsung’s Gear VR Motion Controller Surface
We covered the news today that Samsung will be debuting a new motion controller designed specifically for virtual reality and it's Gear VR headset at CES next week. Now, some new images have surfaced of the devices which give...
Samsung to Demo Gear VR Motion Controller ‘rink’ at CES 2016
The Samsung and Oculus engineered Gear VR mobile headset is available in many countries now at retail, but unlike it's desktop brethren from Oculus and Valve / HTC, it currently relies on basic, standard input for its applications. Samsung...
3DRudder VR Controller Priced at $175, Ships in March 2016
This what the retail version of 3DRudder, a unique motion controller designed that aims to "free the hands and lets the user do more", looks like. And this is how much it'll cost when it finally goes on sale...
Sixense Reveals 3 New STEM VR Controller Demo Videos
Sixense's wireless motion controller system STEM and its protracted development process seems finally to be nearing an end. To that end, the company have released 3 new videos of demo games early adopters will receive along with their hardware.
STEM's...
VRGO Passes Kickstarter Goal, Announces Stretch Goal and Referral Program
VRGO, the wireless motion controller using inertial input that you sit on, has passed it's £20,000 Kickstarter goal and has announced a stretch goal to provide a customised version of the chair.
VRGO offers a seat, loaded with inertial sensors that...
Video of Sixense STEM Archery Game Revealed, Will Ship to Kickstarter Backers
It looks like backers of Sixense's successful STEM Kickstarter campaign may soon receive news of their long-awaited motion controllers. In the mean time, Sixense have released footage of the game that will ship to supporters of the campaign, an extremely...
‘NullSpace VR’ are Building an Upper Body Haptic Suit and Gloves
NullSpace VR are a startup formed from Rochester University Robotics Club who are building a haptic suit and gloves they claim will allow you to feel your virtual worlds.
So, as virtual reality approaches it's first milestone to technological maturity,...



















