Motion Sensing Peripherals

Motion Sensing Peripherals

Leap Motion’s Next-gen ‘Dragonfly’ Sensor is Designed for VR Headsets

Leap Motion creates a gesture camera for hand tracking input. The company has been progressively pivoting their technology toward virtual reality, and now appear to be going all-in on the emerging industry with a tease of a next-generation sensor, codenamed...

STEM System “3 Months Away from Shipping” Says Sixense

The wireless motion controllers, designed for virtual reality input, the Sixense STEM system has had a rocky road since its hugely successful Kickstarter campaign concluded. Design issues and seemingly insurmountable FCC certification problems meant the date which backers could...

Manus Machina Begins to Ship Early Wireless VR Gloves to Developers

Manus Machina, a company dedicated to virtual reality input devices, has begun shipping their first sets of wireless VR gloves to developers. Roaming the halls of Birmingham's NEC covering EGX 2015 today, I bumped into the Manus Machina team, who gave...

‘Ground Control’ and ‘Stompz’, Two Natural VR Controllers for Your Feet

The VR community has been rattling its cage for intuitive input devices for quite a while now, and because nobody really knows exactly what that means yet, we're entertaining anything and everything until we do. Here we take a look...

Sixense STEM is “in the Home Stretch”, New Shipping Date Revealed

Sixense has just sent out an update to backers of their 2013 STEM motion controller Kickstarter campaign which includes an updated production roadmap and a new estimated release date. Sixense, makers of the Razer Hydra and inventors of the promising...
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Sixense’s Danny Woodall on Porting ‘Jedi Training’ STEM Demo to Unreal Engine 4

Road to VR last caught up with Sixense at CES, where they demonstrated an early integration with Gear VR to add positional tracking. The 'Jedi Training' demo now comes to GDC, running on Unreal Engine 4. Ben Lang Speaks to Creative...

Nimble Sense Kickstarter Aims to Bring Time-of-Flight Depth-sensing Tech to VR on the Cheap

Today Nimble VR launches a Kickstarter campaign for Nimble Sense, a natural input controller that the company says was designed for virtual reality input. And while Nimble Sense doesn't at first appear to be much different than Leap...

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...

Oculus Rift Creator: “Don’t get too hyped on the possibility of seeing [VR input] at GDC”

Palmer Luckey, creator of the Oculus Rift, has preempted any rumors that Oculus might be showing a first-party VR input solution at the upcoming GDC 2015 in March. 'VR input', a more natural way of interacting with the virtual world...

‘Kintinuous’ Fuses Virtual and Reality with the Oculus Rift and Kinect

The Kinect was a great example of cutting edge technology coming from R&D into entertainment. First released as a peripheral for the Xbox 360, it quickly became one of the most successful console peripheral ever launched and then promptly...
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First ‘Perception Neuron’ Unboxing Video Appears, Shows Promising Accuracy

Perception Neuron, a VR motion input suit by Beijing-based Noitom Technology, took to Kickstarter on August 8th and came to a very successful conclusion, reeling in nearly $572,000, more than twice the campaign’s $250,000 goal. Now, the first an...

PrioVR VR Motion Capture Kit Kickstarter is Live, Early Bird Prices Start at $450

YEI Technology has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund their PrioVR project. PrioVR is an affordable VR motion capture system that will allow players to put their entire bodies inside a virtual reality environment. The Oculus Rift lets us see...
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Watch 2 Players Take on GTA V with Cyberith Virtualizer Treadmills in Virtual Reality

Cyberith are well known for their fun and irreverent gameplay videos, demonstrating their omni-directional treadmill the Virtualizer. The team are back with this new video, showing 2-player Grand Theft Auto V hilarity as they career around San Andreas in...

Inversion Project: Low Cost ‘Pop-up’ VR Environment, Zombie Game Demo Video

It looks like we've got a new challenger to Project Holodeck. 'Inversion Project' by Zero Latency Media is a low-cost, portable VR environment that allows players to crouch, jump, and move around a physical space while having that movement...

News Bits: HL2VR 1.4 Mod Released, The Best Half-Life 2 Experience Just Got Better

Back in October 2013 Road to VR's Ben Lang described HL2VR, a Half-Life 2 mod specially crafted to make playing in VR as cool as possible, as "The best way to experience Half-Life 2." The new version (1.4) is...
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