[Bobbleoxs]

How possible is it for users to have haptic gloves for typing instead of using controllers? I remain positive on VR productivity tools in future but think we have to get flexible and creative on hardware. Personally, I would love to have collaborative meetings with my colleagues worldwide, even just to demo my modelling ideas on a whiteboard which I think would be tremendously helpful (I believe FB keynote last year also voiced the same sentiment). I fully agree with the hardware limitations at the moment but certainly don't think investment and work now is a waste of time. To push this area forward, we also need to find compelling experiences that are unique to VR, like remote presentation rehearsal, collaborative white board brainstorming sessions for 3D design etc. Wearing a VR headset to work 8 to 10 hours straight is not the answer I look forward to, at least not for now. What VR is strong about to me todate are: minimising limitations resulted from physical distances and fading memories of past experience, as well as its ability to create limitless imaginary worlds, boosting multi-dimensional communication.

[idanb]

Early on we actually built out support for leap motion in dream, and this was super cool because of the networking stack we built - we were able to send all 20 points per hand in real time at 90 FPS at low latencies. This was really an amazing experience, but there were a lot of issues we simply couldn't overcome - like wrist occlusion where your hands would suddenly fly off into the distance, or when your hands didn't do what you intended due to incorrect data from the sensors. As a product minded company, we had to make the hard decision to hold on this - at the end of the day, users don't care whose fault a bad experience is, they just uninstall your app and never come back.

Really excited for new HW and capabilities to become available commercially. We built out our keyboard to be effective without anything but what's currently available (6DOF HMD with 6DOF controllers), and we'll continue to expand support for commercially available capabilities. Maybe it's an unorthodox perspective, but we really only want to ship and represent capabilities that any user can attain easily - and not tease things that are soon to (but may not ever) come.