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The XR Week Peek (2022.04.25): Meta had its Quest Gaming Showcase, Pico may launch its “Cambria” in September, and more!

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Meta releases hands tracking 2.0 Meta has just released the v2 of its hand tracking system for Quest. But the applications won’t use it automatically, but they have to change a little flag to enable the use of this new hand tracking algorithm. Image by Amazon). Amazon may be working on an XR device.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

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The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. So it’s really good from an educational standpoint, as well as instruction based interactions,” he says. What is this thing, what does that do?

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.02): XR2 shows the future of standalones, F8 and GDC canceled and much more!

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Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking! A demo made by the creator of Holoception, that mixes portals and hands tracking. And this time, you will finally be able to download one of them. More info Buy it now!

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.25): Pico 5 to come in three models, Quest 3 is launching, and more!

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On one side, it’s good that Meta is trying to educate children on how to have a pleasant VR experience, but on the other side, I’m not a big fan of Meta targeting children. It features nice graphics, an interesting story, and a strong use of hand tracking through which you can cast spells. Learn more Volumetrics secure $1.1M

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The Best VR Experiences From Raindance Film Festival 2018

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You don a Vive Pro headset, equipped with leap-motion sensors for hand tracking, and are also able to communicate with your partner via voice. Audience members intuitively held hands during the entire experience, and freely walked around the space.”. This is a room-scale (50m2) multi-person VR experience for up to 4 people.

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How you (a VR professional) can go through the coronavirus lockdown

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If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. If with AR/VR you can offer remote education, assistance, training, and telepresence of any kind , then companies may be interested in your services. For instance, I received some requests for remote education now that schools are all closed; Remote showcases.

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Apple Vision Pro Review: A Portable But Heavy Cinema & Monitor With A Promising Spatial OS

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Apple Vision Pro on the other hand has occlusion in two distinct forms. The main form is hand and arm occlusion. There’s clearly a 2D hand and arm segmentation model (separate to the 3D skeletal hand tracking) running for each eye’s camera. Unintentional inputs are also a very real problem with hand tracking.

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