Manus VR gloves work as your Vive controller

Sometimes you need to be a bit more tactile and hands on (so to speak) when it comes to virtual reality. The Manus VR gloves are hoping to do that with the HTC Vive (as well as other VR headsets) and use natural hand motions as inputs for HTC’s VR headset. These gloves make use of Valve’s Lighthouse positional tracking technology and have wrist mounts for the Vive controllers. The gloves are wireless and washable as well.

Manus is preparing a dev-kit version of the gloves coming out for pre-order in the next few weeks. These will include a vibration motor for programming different levels of tactile feedback and batteries capable of lasting up to eight hours on a full charge. The gloves will be compatible with PC games, Cardboard, and Samsung Gear VR as well. There will be an open-source SDK kit made available as well. It will start shipping in the third quarter of the year for $250 USD (roughly $330 CAD).

Source: SlashGear

HTC’s Vive VR headsets are now with developers

And the development phase for HTC’s virtual reality headset goes into full swing. The Valve and HTC-made Vive has finally started making its way to developers. The developer kits are being shipped to the likes of movie studios and game developers with key components like two Lighthouse base stations, which is the mounted hardware the Vive needs to locate and track users in a room; two wireless Steam VR handheld controllers; cables; and “everything else needed to get started.”

Although it is a bit worrying when it comes to the timeframe these developer kits started to arrive to the developers. HTC Vive was touted with a late 2015 release so with half of the year done, there isn’t that much time left to ship the apps. All we can do now is wait and see.

Source: ReadWrite.com