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Creativity and design in VR open up so many possibilities. Having the ability to walk around your creation and feel its presence will encourage people to think differently about creating objects. I want to use this to model furniture prototypes.

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Valve is working on handheld VR controllers that track your fingers

At Valve’s Steam Dev Days in Seattle, Washington, they showed off new VR controllers that look a lot different than the Vive’s current generation of touch, motion controllers.

Vive’s current controllers require you to firmly hold in your hand through your game experience to track your hand movements. You’re also using the trackpad and trigger for games that need buttons like FPS games. The new…

Oculus's Nate Mitchell on Valve vs. Rift, Touch controller vs. Xbox gamepad, and more #vr #oculus #htcvive #virtualreality #tech

The Oculus Rift is real. It has a (semi-firm) release window. It’s a product.

What a relief. That means, for the first time in two years, I can talk with Oculus VP of Product Nate Mitchell and discuss specifics. I sat down with Mitchell a few weeks ago and chatted with him about the company’s upcoming consumer-ready Rift—everything from the prevalence of third-person demos to hardware specs to…