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Japanese candy maker Puccho has developed a virtual reality helmet Puccho AN with a special manipulator that throws sweets directly into the mouth.
There can be no doubt that Snapdragon 845 will be the most popular chipset for flagship smartphones in 2018, but Qualcomm does not want to be limited to just one mobile segment. The company introduced a "reference" helmet of virtual reality on the basis of a new chipset.
The company Archos also decided to try its hand at virtual reality and announced its own VR Glasses helmet. As in many variants already presented, smartphones are used as brains and screens.
Known in narrow circles, the manufacturer of OLED microdisplays eMagin received $ 10 million investment from Apple, LG Display, Valve and other contributors. This became known from the documents of the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States.
Looxid Labs specialists have developed a system for tracking user emotions in virtual reality - LooxidVR. The novelty was brought to the exhibition CES 2018, and the development kit will be available in the very near future.
Last year, Google announced the first partners to create fully autonomous virtual reality helmets for the Daydream platform. Later, HTC decided to go its own way, but Lenovo did not refuse to cooperate with the search giant, and at the CES 2018 the company introduced the VR-headset Mirage Solo.
Even before the official announcement of the Oculus Go virtual reality helmet, rumors circulated that the manufacturer was cooperating with the Chinese Xiaomi. At the CES 2018 exhibition, the head of the VR-unit Facebook Hugo Barra officially confirmed this information and reported new details of the gadget.
As part of the exhibition CES 2018, HTC announced an improved version of the virtual reality suite HTC Vive with the prefix Pro in the title.
At its own VR conference in China, HTC showed a fully autonomous virtual reality helmet Vive Focus with six degrees of freedom. The company claims that this is the first such gadget on the market - existing designs offer only three degrees of freedom, not too different from Google Cardboard.
Recently Sony announce the realese date of the Sony PlayStation VR set. Despite quite modest characteristics in comparison to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the Sony headset seems to be a very interesting solution becuase of low price. Moreover, the whole line was launched on the market quite successfully. The headset may get one more benefit - compatibility with PC.
VR is booming these days. Helmets, glasses, controllers, various VR content and so on. And adult content producers feel the trend and enter the niche. One of the biggest and most popular adult content provider POrnHub in cooperation with BadoinkVR has launched a free content channel for VR helmets/glasses owner.
Game developers pay more and more attention to opportunities VIrtual Reality offers to the market. So even the first users of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive will have games to play. Still there is no other competitor to Steam, PlayStation and Xbox game libraries. So MyDream Interactive decided to enter the market from that side and bring more games to VR. They developed a new tool to port their action game and suddenly insighted the tool can be used to port other first person shooters and other games. And MyDream Swift has come to the stage.
More and more interesting developments appear with the use of the virtual reality helmet Oculus Rift. This time, engineers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology decided to use it in conjunction with a quadrocopter DJI Phantom 2. The Oculus FPV project allows the user to see a helmet video from a quadrocopter.
