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Google Releases Real-time Mobile Hand Tracking to R&D Community

Road to VR

Google has released to researchers and developers its own mobile device-based hand tracking method using machine learning, something Google R esearch engineers Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang call a “new approach to hand perception.” in palm detection, researchers claim.

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ManoMotion Brings Hand Gesture Input to Apple’s ARKit

Road to VR

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

And super excited to have you on the call and really learn more about what's coming up next for North. So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband. Stefan: Yeah, great. It felt right.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

And super excited to have you on the call and really learn more about what's coming up next for North. So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband. Stefan: Yeah, great. It felt right.

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Using XR to Change Everything (Without Changing Anything) with Lance-AR’s Lance Anderson

XR for Business Podcast

We’ll be learning about the challenges and learnings from his experience. What they learned was we have to exist within this existing ecosystem of these warehouses, and we changed their tagline to “change everything without changing anything.” Alan: I’m going to Google it here. Voice is everywhere.

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Using XR to Change Everything (Without Changing Anything) with Lance-AR’s Lance Anderson

XR for Business Podcast

We’ll be learning about the challenges and learnings from his experience. What they learned was we have to exist within this existing ecosystem of these warehouses, and we changed their tagline to “change everything without changing anything.” Alan: I’m going to Google it here. Voice is everywhere.

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Shaping the Digital World with Our Hands, with Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian

XR for Business Podcast

That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Today we're speaking with Varag Gharibjanian, the chief revenue officer at Clay AIR, a software company shaping the future of how we interact with the digital world, using natural gesture recognition. Alan: We actually did it.