Tag Archives: User interface techniques

Facebook’s Oculus Buys Pebbles Interfaces for $60 Million

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On Thursday the company Oculus announced it has bought the Israel based company Pebbles Ltd. for a whopping $60 million, according to WSJ. Pebbles Ltd. is a gesture control company and will help...

Facebook buys Pebbles Interfaces to Join Oculus

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Facebook bought Israeli startup Pebbles Interfaces to join the Oculus virtual reality team. Pebbles released the following statement on their site:WE ARE JOINING OCULUS!For the last 5 years, we’ve...

Augmented and Virtual Reality Market To Be $4 Billion in 3 Years

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At the E3 2015 Microsoft impressed with a Minecraft HoloLens implementation. Everyone believes now Virtual Reality is finally coming to consumers in a big way. Analyst firm CCS Insight just released...

Vuzix iWear Head Mounted Display is Available for Pre-Order

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Vuzix announces it will begin pre-order sales for the new high-definition iWear video headphones. In addition, the iWear will be on display at Vuzix’ booth at E3 2015 this week. E3 attendees can find...

Apple buys German Metaio VR Company

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Virtual Reality is the next big thing. This time it is on for real. We already thought VR is coming twenty years ago. Now with Ocolus, Google Cardboard and Microsoft's incredible HoloLens Virtual...

Future MacBooks may feature a ‘fusion keyboard’ with multitouch keys

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Apple was granted a patent on Tuesday for a hybrid keyboard with touch-sensitive keys allowing for a dual purpose keyboard that basically houses touch sensors above the mechanical keys. This allows...

Fove, the Oculus Rift Plus Eye Tracking to Reach Kickstarter Goal Today

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The entrepreneurs behind Fove try the same path as Oculus VR to get of the ground. FOVE, the world's first eye tracking virtual reality headset launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding projected two days...