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BBC trials 'mind-control TV' headset

2015-06-18 02:07:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The BBC, in collaboration with tech company This Place, develops a way people can select TV programmes using a cheap, brainwave-reading headset.

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Starbreeze is staffing up and launching its own VR headset: StarVR

2015-06-16 00:21:10| Appliances - Topix.net

Stockholm-based Starbreeze AB, the parent company of Payday 2 developer Starbreeze Studios, is making moves this month with acquisitions that will see it gain new staff, new IP, and a new virtual reality headset prototype known as Project StarVR . The fact that Starbreeze is out there acquiring companies, people and projects is notable in light of the company's financial history; Starbreeze swung to big profits last year on the back of Payday 2 after spending the prior 15 years racking up ~$14.4 million in losses.

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Oculus VR headset to work with Xbox One controller

2015-06-12 09:59:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Facebook-owned VR company Oculus VR announced at an event in San Francisco that its Oculus Rift VR headset will be bundled with Microsoft's Xbox One controller when it will be launched in Q1 2016. Oculus Touch, the prototype for the tracked controllers, was also presented. Oculus Touch is a pair of tracked controllers that deliver hand presence, namely the sensation of feeling, as though end-users' virtual hands are actually their own. As part of a partnership with Microsoft, Oculus Rift will work natively with Windows 10. Made-for-VR games will leverage DirectX 12 to unleash the full capabilities of new Windows 10 graphics hardware for top performance and the fastest frame rates. Among the Xbox One games that will be available when the Rift VR will hit the store shelves are Halo, Forza, Sunset Overdrive.

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Fove VR Headset Locks Onto Your Gaze

2015-05-21 00:24:15| TechNewsWorld

Fove is the first virtual reality headset to feature eye-tracking -- meaning, among other things, that characters you view on screen can look right back at you. So far, close to 500 people have pledged nearly $200,000 to bring the Fove VR headset to fruition. Just a day into its 45-day Kickstarter campaign, the Fove appears certain to reach its $250,000 goal.

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