Watch how Valve’s Knuckles controllers work with Lone Echo and Fallout 4 VR

Here’s a video of one of VR’s best games being played with its most promising new controllers. Brian Lindenhof, a VR developer best known for his work on Climbey, has uploaded a video of him playing Ready at Dawn’s Oculus Rift exclusive, Lone Echo, using the Revive app. The new controllers, which were shipped out to […]

Valve’s Knuckles EV2 controller will let you squeeze things in VR

Valve originally introduced its vertical-grip “Knuckles” controllers for VR in 2016, and shipped working models to developers last year. Now the company sending game makers another version, the EV2, that has revamped buttons, straps and a slew of sensors that essentially translate finger motion and pressure to let you touch, grab and squeeze objects inside […]

Rheumatoid arthritis: Can cracking your knuckles cause future pain in joints?

RHEUMATOID arthritis pain can be debilitating with symptoms affecting joints in the body in a number of ways. It often starts in a person between the age of 40 and 50 years old, but unfortunately there is no cure. One myth is that cracking your knuckles and joints can lead to the condition happening in […]

When the Pacific Northwest First Bared Its Knuckles for a Prizefight

The prizefight looked like a mismatch from the opening bell. Every time Billy Morgan tried to land a punch, he either slipped and fell in the muddy grass, or he got decked by his younger, bigger opponent, Tom Manning. The two men were following the London Prize Ring Rules, thus bare knuckles and rounds that […]

Valve tries to one-up Oculus Touch with five-finger “Knuckles” VR controller

Valve / SteamVR We first heard about Valve’s plans for a new SteamVR controller back in October when a few pictures and basic impressions started leaking out of the press-free Steam Dev Days conference. Now we’re getting more details about the upcoming VR hardware—code-named Knuckles—thanks to documents posted on SteamVR’s Knuckles Dev Kit group page. […]

Microsoft’s new VR controllers will be great—until SteamVR “Knuckles” arrive

Enlarge / Surprise! Microsoft has its own VR controller. (credit: Microsoft) Thursday’s Microsoft Build keynote included a repeated call from Technical Fellow Alex Kipman about the importance of mixed reality (meaning, virtual reality headsets and their “augmented” reality siblings like Hololens). This platform will drive “the future of computing,” he said, and he repeated Microsoft’s call to […]