Sixense Entertainment is launching a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign on Thursday to raise money for a wireless version of its motion-sensing game controllers. The startup hopes to seize the day by piggybacking on the rebounding popularity of virtual reality gaming.
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The Sixense technology, which is based on motion-sensing magnets that give you 360 degrees of freedom to control objects in a 3D space, has been in the market for sometime via licenses with Razer, which makes the Hydra PC gaming controllers, and Valve for its Portal 2 In Motion game. But the 3D-sensing controller has gotten a new life with the popularity of the Oculus VR virtual reality goggles. After all, if you’re going to explore virtual reality, you need more than a headset. You need a new user interface to help you naturally interact in a three-dimensional space. And that’s giving Sixense a chance to redefine itself and launch a new strategy that includes selling its own branded merchandise.
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