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‘Oculus Touch’ Connect Demo Leak Shows Cross Platform VR Development

Oculus Connect day one is over, but it was but a warm up act for the remaining two days, kicking off today with a series of keynotes at 10am PST. In the mean time, UploadVR noticed that information has 'leaked'...

New Oculus Touch Documentation Reveals Capacitive Buttons and Recognizable Gestures

While the Oculus Touch controller is largely designed to tell the computer where a user's hands are, the controller also has an idea of what a user's fingers are doing. New documentation adds to our understanding of the controller's hand-tracking capabilities,...

Control VR Halts Kickstarter Pending “Significant” Restructuring and “Additional Financial Investment”

Control VR, a motion input solution for VR that raised nearly $450,000 on Kickstarter, appears to be in critical condition, unable to deliver on its promises without significant help. A June 2014 Kickstarter for Control VR, a motion input device capable...

Sixense STEM Edges Closer to Release

Sixense, the company behind the much beleaguered motion control system STEM, have released what they term 'positive' results from their latest round of EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) testing. The STEM system from Razer Hydra creators Sixense, having been successfully Kickstarted back...

Oculus to Open ‘Constellation’ Positional Tracking API to Third-parties

Oculus says that they'll be opening up their 'Constellation' tracking API so that third-parties can use the tech to build positionally tracked peripherals beyond what the company will make themselves. At E3 2015, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey told us that he...

Hands-on: Oculus Touch is an Elegant Extension of your Hand for Touching Virtual Worlds

From the beginning, Oculus said they didn't want to reveal an official VR input solution until they could do it right. Despite pressure from their developers, competitors, and the VR community at large, the company bided their time up...

Oculus Touch VR Controller Launches 1st Half of 2016, Pre-orders Open Alongside Rift

The Oculus Touch VR controller will ship in the first half of 2016, says founder Palmer Luckey. The units will be available for pre-order at the same time as the Oculus Rift. After revealing the Oculus Touch 'Half Moon' prototype...

Oculus Reveals ‘Oculus Touch’ Half Moon Prototype VR Input Controller

Today at the company's 'Step into the Rift' pre-E3 event in San Francisco, Oculus revealed what they're calling 'Oculus Touch', the company's VR-specific input controller. The prototype revealed at the event was dubbed 'Half Moon' by Oculus and uses the...

Closeup with the HTC Vive Developer Edition Headset for SteamVR

The first Vive Developer Edition headsets and controllers for SteamVR are arriving and Owlchemy Labs have been kind enough to provide us with high resolution shots of the system, including the new wireless Lighthouse tracked controllers. The road to consumer...
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Video Preview: Manus Machina’s Wireless VR Glove Looks Promising, Headed to E3 2015

Manus Machina, a tech startup based in the Netherlands, have released a video preview of what they're calling 'the first consumer VR glove' ahead of its appearance at E3 2015 where the device will quite literally be on hand...
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Yes, You Can Juggle in VR with the HTC Vive

When Alex Schwartz told people he could juggle in VR with the HTC Vive and SteamVR controllers, they didn't believe him. But now he has video proof: not only can he juggle quite effectively with the system, he thinks that it...

‘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...
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Tactical Haptics’ Will Provancher Talks Updated ‘Reactive Grip’ and We Go Hands-on

As Ben Lang says in his interview introduction, Will Provancher is one of the OG's of virtual reality. Tactical Haptic's 'Reactive Grip' controller was one of the few peripherals shown back at GDC 2013 that aimed to enhance...

CES 2015: Leap Motion Co-Founders Talk ‘Dragonfly’ Made-for-VR Motion Input Camera

At CES 2015 last week, we met up with Leap Motion co-founders Michael Buckwald and David Holz to try their latest prototype motion input camera, codenamed 'Dragonfly', and chat with the duo to learn more about their plans for making...

Oculus Rift VR Experiences Take Top Spots in Leap Motion ‘3D Jam’ Contest

Leap Motion's '3D Jam' dev contest, presented by the independent games festival IndieCade, is now officially over and the results are in. Among the 20 semi-finalists, who were awarded over $75,000 in prizes by a jury composed of Leap...
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