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New Leap Motion 2 Brings High-end Hand-tracking to Standalone Headsets

Road to VR

10 years after the launch of Leap Motion—which garnered praise for offering some of the best hand-tracking in the industry—the company has announced a next-generation version of the device which now supports standalone XR headsets in addition to Windows and MacOS.

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Report: Vive Flow is a Consumer VR Standalone with Heavy Emphasis on Hand-tracking

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HTC is serial-teasing its next VR headset again, this time hyping the reveal of Vive Flow, which is reportedly a slim and light 6DOF standalone focused on media consumption, casual gaming, and VR experiences. HTC also released and new hype video on its Instagram , showing a quick flash of Flow’s hardware. Image courtesy HTC.

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‘Telepath’ Movement System Could be a Great Fit for Quest Controllerless Hand-tracking

Road to VR

Controller-less hand-tracking (like what’s currently available as an experimental feature on Quest) has a handful of advantages over using controllers, like convenience and intuitiveness. However, common VR game actions like shooting and moving are difficult to do with hand-gestures alone. Image courtesy Oculus.

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HTC Vive announces 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and teases hand tracking for Vive Pro

The Ghost Howls

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The Venture Reality Fund and of course HTC. — Alvin Wang Graylin (@AGraylin) October 18, 2018.

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VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk

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Tuesday, April 7, saw VIVE’s second weekly developer live stream, “Build for Tomorrow – VIVE Hand Tracking SDK.”. The talk, presented by HTC’s senior developer Dario Laverde, focused on how developers can integrate hand tracking into their applications. We can do hand tracking.”.

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Will 3D Cities Unlock Immersive Experiences? Part II

AR Insider

Speaking of Google Earth, its VR edition is an immersive dive into 3D cities around the world. As we examined recently, Here Technologies has also jumped on the 3D mapping train with a developer platform for building immersive 3D maps. Will 3D Cities Unlock Immersive Experiences? But its advantage is also its drawback: VR.

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Sensoryx & Interhaptics partner to streamline the creation of hand tracking interactions for VRFree

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Hand-tracking is on the rise in the XR market. In the last couple of years, several emerging high quality and precise hand-tracking technologies were introduced to the market. Interhaptics are creating a tool that will enable the easy integration of hand interactions across a broad range of XR hardware devices.