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01-11-2017, 11:10 AM
http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rihtO5B17sMnug3Ood_yEQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PT EzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/video.woven.com/27e973c4f266c42076bb86a17b073791 (http://news.yahoo.com/heres-virtual-augmented-reality-check-145641556.html)One of my missions at this year’s CES (other than listening to Nick Offerman talk technological masturbation) was to delve into how far VR and AR technology has come using very simple criteria: Is this something I’d actually want to use? One was called Hypersuit, from a Paris-based startup, where you lay down onto a horizontal wing suit to fly through a virtual world, sampling extreme experiences like flying off a cliff. Another bit of VR technology that I got to test drive was Taclim from Cerevo — the “world’s first VR shoes with haptic feedback to enable users to feel the virtual world.” It involved a headset, “gloves,” and the act of strapping my feet into sandals with built-in tactile devices for gaming in virtual locales such as deserts, grasslands, and water.



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