Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the US, you’ll be able to find Quest 3 online through Meta as well as its official partners, including Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. Quest 3 is officially now available for pre-order, with shipping slated to start on October 10th, 2023. Here are those prices in GBP, EUR, and JPY: £479.99 GBP (128GB), £619.99

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2024

Buy on Amazon ($25) Lens Cleaning Pen Image courtesy CNBEYOUNG Apple hasn’t published a guide yet on exactly how to clean your Vision Pro. You can nab one for as low as $7 on Amazon, or a whole set with multiple brushes, wipes, carrying cases, the works. Available in clear, and black, red, blue, white, and grey.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

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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MARCH 6, 2023

It supports YouTube, Disney+, Amazon Prime, movie rentals, and its own TV channels for shows like Rick & Morty. The new avatars now have necks and estimated arms (no current VR headset has built-in arm tracking). The company plans to add support for hand tracking and eye tracking later this year for the new avatar system.

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MAY 9, 2023

A new app uses your smartphone camera to track your body and it can send the data to the standalone VRChat Quest app. Existing VR systems focus on head and hand tracking, though some VRChat enthusiasts use extra hardware to add body tracking.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It will also be available via Amazon and through select retailers in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan and France. Quest 3 will continue to support controller-free hand tracking as an input option, but the headset will also ship with new Touch Plus controllers as well.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Native hand tracking, PC/standalone hybrid functionality, and new games confirmed for the Oculus platform. Oculus Quest hand tracking – One of the most exciting reveals made during this years developer conference, Oculus has announced that native hand and finger tracking will be available on the Oculus Quest in early 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. The Vive Ultimate Tracker is like a Vive Tracker, but it tracks its pose using two onboard cameras, not requiring any SteamVR base station. THREE TO ONE.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Tracking: Inside-out tracking and hand tracking. Controllers: Two wireless hand-held controllers. Buy on Amazon or directly from Oculus. Use case: Half-Life: Alyx and other games that require finger tracking. Price : $1, 400 for full kit on Amazon or $900 directly from HTC. Price: $300.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2021

Hand-tracking. Hand-tracking first came to the original Quest in late 2019, offering users and developers a controllerless option for input on the headset. ” This is especially useful for using voice commands with hand-tracking, since there’s no menu button that you can easily double-tap.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

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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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The company’s first foray into a worldwide release began on March 28 when it began shipping its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset via its own store and third party vendors such as Best Buy and Amazon. Oculus Touch — the company’s new, $200, hand-tracked controller platform — is slated to release on December 6.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. The standalone headset still features passthrough AR/MR, XR2 chipset, dual 1600×1600 LCD panels running at 90Hz, Ultraleap hands tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2, which makes the hand tracking more responsive to fast movements of hands : the system can so track the hands also when the user is playing fitness games like FitXR (or HitMotion: Reloaded).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. Devs are doing very interesting things with hands tracking for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. Hands tracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

So many developers could find themselves with the conundrum of what to offer and to which device : if the Quest 3 Lite will sell a lot of units, maybe developers will prefer to develop content that is compatible with hand tracking, shifting the current attention to games to something else. Wait, what???

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. update”, is already directed in that sense, since it brings support for hand tracking and colocation. Preorders are expected to start on the day of the Connect, so on September, 27th. Hope you enjoy!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It features nice graphics, an interesting story, and a strong use of hand tracking through which you can cast spells. Imagine something like this running on an AR headset… Learn more News from partners (and friends) Discover Drakheir Drakheir is an indie Magic Adventure Roguelite VR game. Learn more Volumetrics secure $1.1M

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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. This will include query based voice interactions for a new level of digital agency, and even the ability to interact with and control digital environments through conversation.

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2017

The strategy to slash Touch pricing by 50% when they’ve only just begun making their way into the hands of consumers is a bold move. You can head on over to Amazon to pick up a Rift + Touch bundle , the Rift , or just Touch controllers. Not much of a consolation, but it’s something.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Quest 3 and Pro can now use hand-tracking and controllers simultaneously , Meta's looking at neural wristbands , while Sony confirmed PC support is coming for PSVR 2. Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery VR on Steam can be claimed as a free game for Amazon Prime members until February 28. The Light Brigade is currently 30% off.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

According to reports, the upcoming Samsung XR headset will feature a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a Time of Flight (ToF) sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking. At the event, AWS collaborated with Proto Holograms to showcase a new system powered by Amazon Bedrock.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Instead a ‘look-and-tap’ system relying on eye and hand-tracking is the core input method, and by all accounts ( including mine ) it works very well. Signals from Amazon suggest Quest 2 may have outsold Quest 3 nearly 3:1, if not more. 10 years later, Apple is finally about to launch its first headset.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Manomotion Manomotion is a hand tracking and gesture control SDK for smartphones. The top 3 experiences will win Amazon Gift cards. You do not need any dedicated hardware to experiment around with this SDK. If you already have some prior knowledge of AR Development then this group is a must join for you.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Both tools offer virtual reality experiences, with powerful graphics and immersive solutions like hand tracking. You can purchase them directly through the Meta website or through a partner retailer, such as Amazon. Both solutions feature hand-tracking capabilities for hands-free functionality.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Originally released on PC back in 2018, Green Hell drops you dead center of the Amazon Rainforest where you’re tasked with surviving the elements, including wild animals, tropical sickness, and crippling loneliness. Last month we learned that a VR release of the popular open-world survival game Green Hell is currently in the works.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin. Now it is so possible to have a passthrough AR experience with hands tracking and the developers of the game In Da Hoop (now called Just Hoops) will be the first ones to exploit it. Have I already told you that I love this game?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

More info Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon release open map dataset A group called the Overture Maps Foundation, which includes Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom, has released its first open map dataset, including 59 million “points of interest,” such as restaurants and landmarks.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Considering the leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt, the device will probably be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. After the Vision Pro announcement, both Meta and Pico started giving even more attention to it, and a few days ago, the Quest runtime was updated so that the main menu became hands-first.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses. Amazon has just announced that it is going to release Amazon Echo Frames, the first official smartglasses by the e-commerce giant. I have already written one mega-roundup post of that event, so I will just super-briefly summarize it again here (I’m tired summarizing the Connect! :O).

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MARCH 6, 2023

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Oculus Touch is a hand-tracked controller platform compatible with the Oculus Rift VR headset. Touch will allow Rift users to bring their hands into immersive experiences and interact with objects in a more natural way. 6th for $199 and will be available through Amazon, Best Buy and Oculus themselves.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

In December, Ammaar Reshi created and sold a children’s book that he wrote using Chat GPT and physically published via Amazon Kindle Publishing in an exceedingly short time period. The service also allows users to generate content such as stories and articles. Examples, such as Reshi’s project and the surge of DALL.E

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

This allows users to create more advanced spatial experiences for the augmented reality landscape, with hand gesture recognition and spatial audio. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

If you want to read all his insights, you can buy his book on Amazon, which has very positive reviews. DeoVR has just announced two interesting pieces of news: the popular video player now supports hands tracking and it has also been ported to Pico. Learn more (DeoVR on Pico Store) Learn more (DeoVR supports hands tracking).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. This has the double advantage of being able to support better people with glasses and also to maximize the FOV for people without glasses that can put the lenses very close to their eyes. in the reviews!

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