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Fight Back: Upcoming Free Quest App Teaches Self-Defense With Hand Tracking

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Coming to Quest VR headsets in late 2022, Fight Back is a free VR app aimed at teaching self-defense via hand tracking. From Céline Tricart and produced by both Tricart and Marie Blondiaux, Fight Back uses storytelling steeped in metaphor to teach self-defense techniques via VR headset hand tracking or optional controller tracking.

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Big XR News from Meta, HaptX, Siemens, and Apple

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HaptX is leading research with Old Dominion University (ODU) and Georgia Institute of Technology, which also receive investments from the funding round. By unlocking access to the vast array of content previously inaccessible to people with limited sight, this project intends to make digital inclusivity a tangible reality.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? Cortney: Well, yeah, the hand tracking Quest is going to be amazing.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? Cortney: Well, yeah, the hand tracking Quest is going to be amazing.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms' Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: [laughs] We're actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? Cortney: Well, yeah, the hand tracking Quest is going to be amazing. So you don't have to build something that's custom for like California, or Georgia, or Illinois, or New York. I'm really excited for that.