Upload VR

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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Upload VR

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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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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The Ghost Howls

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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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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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

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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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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VRScout

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

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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

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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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Read More : République VR Review: Simple Sneaking Quest Store Bigscreen You can watch Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Twitch, and YouTube with others using Bigscreen. Though it's use of Quest's hand-tracking has been surpassed, we still consider it a fun demonstration of what hand-tracking can do.

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2020

You’ll find a load of them on Amazon, eBay, and from specialized vendors such as VR Cover. Quest needs UV-C death rays, not hand tracking – Image courtesy Oculus. SEE ALSO How to Tell if Your PC is VR Ready. Going deeper: Killing Microbes.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes. AWE is a snapshot of a developing industry, though it does not have participation from major players with developer conferences of their own.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Of course, that is until they release a modular faceplate capable of hand-tracking. That beings, said several other sources have reported issues with the headsets inside-out tracking, reporting inconsistencies with performance if the playspace is not extremely well-lit. Calling it now. Feature Image Credit: HTC.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

These are very cheap, retailing on Amazon for the following countries: North America, Canada , UK , Japan, Australia and Germany. Then in 2020, you’ll be able to go hands-free when the hand tracking feature arrives for Oculus Quest. For further updates, keep reading VRFocus.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Meta Quest Pro has numerous optional accessories from Amazon, the Meta online store, and other vendors. However, the company has announced its plans to update the hand-tracking and eye-tracking capabilities in the Pro going forward. Meta ultimately scrapped this feature.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

McQuire points to the fact that this follows similar moves made by Amazon Web Services over the past 12 months, and sees it as a clear statement of intent at gaining developer mindshare against Google ahead of its own developer event, Google I/O which also happens this week. The whole world is becoming a computer Click To Tweet.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Iribe will lead the PC side, while Jon Thomason, who was formerly VP of Engineering at Qualcomm for five years and then VP of Mobile Shipping at Amazon before joining Oculus as Head of Software in August of this year, will head up the mobile division. We loved them in our review.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 8, 2023

You should be able to buy it through Amazon, Target, Walmart, and Best Buy in the US. Alternatively, you can try Amazon, Argos, and Curry’s in the UK. Notably, while the Quest 3 does feature hand tracking , it doesn’t offer eye tracking. This indicates that the Meta Quest 3 will grow more advanced over time.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Here’s everything we learned through our hands-on experiments with the device. Its futuristic eye, hand-tracking capabilities, incredible visuals, and breathtaking audio make it a true industry leader. Plus, the eye tracking is insanely good. We can see why it sold out so quickly.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Each headset comes with a pair of Touch controllers as well as support for hand-tracking, allowing you to interact with the virtual world using your bare hands. Meta Quest 2 is a standalone VR headset, which means no additional hardware is required in order to operate. Feature Image Credit: Meta.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

You can find the deal on Quest 2 over at Meta.com , but also participating retailers such as Amazon , Best Buy , and Target. Check out the spec sheet below to get a better idea of how the headsets differ. And what games can you play on Quest 2?

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