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Hands On: ‘Manus’ Wireless VR Gloves Adding OSVR Integration, Promising Hints of Future Positional Tracking

Manus, the minds behind the eponymous VR data glove and Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) partners, have revealed to us that they are well on their way integrating OSVR equipment for their wireless VR gloves Far from giving up on...

OSVR HDK Shipping Now with 360 Positional Tracking – Wearality and Android Upgrades Pictured

OSVR's Hacker Developer Kit (HDK) VR headset has started shipping units to early supporters. We take a peek at some potential future upgrades, including Wearality Sky 150 degree FoV lenses and an Android phone holder faceplate. Hard to believe OSVR is...

OSVR HDK Headset Now Shipping with 100Hz Positional Tracking, Upgrade Modules Announced

OSVR's 'Hacker Development Kit' version 1.2 is now shipping to selected developers, including the long awaited IR positional tracking system. The company has today updated their SDK to include support for Android devices, adding true cross-platform compatibility to an ecosystem that...

E3 Press Conference Live Streams to Keep Your Eye on for VR

Hot on the tails of the Oculus Rift's unveiling at the company's 'Step into the Rift' event, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) promises to see a number of press conferences featuring the top players that have expressed strong interest in VR...

Leap Motion Partners with OSVR to Provide Integrated Sensor Faceplate for HDK

Leap Motion are furthering their commitment to the Open Source Virtual Reality initiative. They're working with OSVR to produce a Leap Motion enabled faceplate for the project's flagship VR Headset, the HDK. The OSVR initiative, spearheaded by VR headset veterans...
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OSVR’s Yuval Boger Talks HDK and SDK Updates

OSVR has announced at GDC 2015 that it plans to update it's Hacker Developer Kit (HDK) open source headset to 1.1 bringing with it a collection of enhancements. OSVR's Yuval Boger walks Ben Lang through the hardware and software...

Ubisoft and 11 Other Companies Join OSVR’s Open Source Initiative

OSVR announced today that 12 new partners have signed up to work with the Open-Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) headset, a so called "hacker dev kit" that is intended to be entirely hardware agnostic. Ubisoft, the video game studio best known for popular...

OSVR’s HDK VR Headset Gets Upgraded – Adds 1080p OLED, Video Mirroring and ‘Evaluation’ Positional Tracking

Open Source Virtual Reality's (OSVR) flagship VR headset is to get some upgrades. HDK v1.1 brings a low latency 1080p OLED panel and video mirroring amongst other enhancements, the movement has announced today. We reported on the new Open Source Virtual...

13 More Partners Join OSVR, New Academia Program to Give 10 VR Headsets to Each Eligible...

After the announcement of the Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) initiative last month during CES, it seems that the idea might be catching on. Today OSVR is announcing the addition of 13 new partners, like Jaunt and VisiSonics, and the organization is...

CES 2015: Interview with OSVR HDK Creators, ‘HDK is Not a Razer Headset’

After yesterday's announcement of the new Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) project, Ben Lang sits down with two of the key players in the project; Yuval Boger, CEO at Sensics and Chris Mitchell, Senior Product Manager at Razer. Yesterday, Razer...
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