LinkToVR Brings Virtual Reality To The Western Mass Business Expo 2016!

We will have live VR demos and a guest speaker in Springfield, MA on Nov. 3rd! Expo website - https://www.wmbexpo.com/ Information on our guest speaker - https://www.wmbexpo.com/speakers/rik-shorten/ We are also working on a private VIP showing in Springfield MA and the Boston area. Please contact bill@linktovr.com if you would like to attend or demonstrate your Medical VR related product or service.

VR Startups Strike ‘High Quality Deals’ At HTC Vive’s First VRVCA Meeting

The Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA), spearheaded by HTC Vive, is making good on its promise to help kick start the VR industry having held its first meeting last week.

We’d previously reported that the group, which is comprised of 37 investment firms, moved its initial meeting from September 9th due to the large volume of submissions from startups looking for funding. Today, HTC Vive confirmed that the meeting took place in Beijing on September 20th and, from the sounds of it, was a success.

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Only Select Developers Can Publish Google Daydream Apps Until 2017

Google Daydream is supposed to launch Fall 2016, but only a select group of developers will be able to publish Daydream apps to the Google Play store until 2017.

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Using HoloLens to Visualise Motion Capture Performances in Realtime

Motion capture techniques are used throughout the VFX industry, but a new project from Mo-cap specialist and developer Jasper Brekelmans aims to bring live, augmented reality previews for motion capture performance, unlocking the ability to preview dances in realtime overlaid onto reality.

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HTC Partners With Inside Secure To Bring Piracy Protection To Vive

The VR industry is growing by the day and HTC is moving to protect its Vive from an inevitable issue: content piracy.

The Taiwanese company partnered with France-based Inside Secure to help prevent VR piracy. Inside offers a range of different security solutions for web-based operations, though this deal is specifically to prevent illegally obtaining Vive content.

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Oculus Teases ‘Guardian’ Boundary System For Touch, Arriving This Week

Leave it to Oculus to just casually throw some major news into a simple little tweet; the VR specialist has just announced a brand new boundary system in passing.

VP of Product Nate Mitchell teased the news just moments ago. He told Oculus developers that an incoming software development kit (SDK) update, 1.8, would include Guardian, a new boundary system for the company’s upcoming position-tracked controllers, Oculus Touch. More details will be coming at next month’s anticipated developer conference, Oculus Connect 3.

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