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JANUARY 27, 2023

By using your hands for shadow puppetry, Silhouette is one of the more unique VR puzzle games in recent times, and that’s available now on Quest 2. Developed by Team Panoptes, best known for PC VR game Panoptic , Silhouette presents a a casual adventure game exclusively controlled by hand-tracking.

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JULY 29, 2022

A new update is available for Myst which adds hand tracking support and other requested features. Players can now use hand tracking for the entire Myst experience from start to finish on Quest with gestures for smooth locomotion and other interactions.

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JUNE 27, 2022

Little Cities will receive hand tracking support this week on Oculus Quest and Meta Quest 2. After some discussions internally and a few requests from fans, Purple Yonder decided hand tracking support would be the game’s first big piece of post launch content. And that just works really well,” explains James.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Creed: Rise To Glory receives hand-tracking support, Quest 3 enhancements and a familiar adversary in a free update. Personal calorie burn goals can now be set, using timed or calorie mode tracking based on your personal preferences. This update also introduces Quest 3 enhancements as part of "a remarkable performance surge."

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AUGUST 3, 2022

First Hand is a new demo built by Meta to introduce Quest buyers to advanced interactions built around hand tracking. The demo available through Meta’s App Lab program lists both Quest and Quest 2 support for hand tracking only.

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VRGames

AUGUST 19, 2023

Pico, the virtual reality technology owned by ByteDance, appears to be shifting its focus from controllers and towards hand tracking in their next headsets. Their adjustment comes after Apple launched it’s VR solution – Vision Pro back in April this year.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. But, most importantly, now the Quest features hands tracking. If you update the Quest until its latest runtime, you can now activate hands tracking in its experimental features. Doc Ok is back with a great article on PSVR display. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2023

Every maker or research center I know had bought this device to be used in UX studies, robotics, digital signage, or whatever other use case where hand tracking would have been useful. The Leap Motion controller was able to bring your hands into virtual reality, making VR interactions more natural.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They are currently offering deals for Black Friday, so if you are reading this article close to when I published it, you can check out their offers here. The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. That said, have a nice read!

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AUGUST 23, 2022

Owlchemy Labs’ next VR project will feature multiplayer and hand tracking support. The project remains unnamed and details are scarce, except that it will feature multiplayer and is “built from the ground up for hand tracking.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

I have had the joy of trying the new UltraLeap Stereo IR 170 hands-tracking sensor for VR and evaluate its performances. Of course, it is not only for them: if you are a maker or a research center, you can also buy it as an accessory for your headset, to experiment with high-quality hands tracking in VR. Are you in?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For whatever reason you may be reading this article, I wish you a lot of happiness. A must-read article. In his article, he says that it is better than other headsets, but it still shows issues, like uneven white color across the display. Glad to have you here again. describes how they ported Puzzling Places to the Vision Pro.

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VRGames

JULY 22, 2023

Since its introduction to the original Quest headset in 2019, Meta’s hand-tracking capabilities have significantly improved. The company’s latest software update, Hand Tracking 2.2,

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vacation Simulator launched in 2019 and, over a year later in late 2020, got controller-free hand tracking support on Quest. Vacation Simulator Adds Experimental Quest Hand Tracking Support Owlchemy Labs added experimental hand tracking support to Vacation Simulator on Oculus Quest.

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JULY 11, 2022

Interestingly, the description on the Quest store confirms that this release will support hand tracking — “ Use controllers or your hands to interact with the figurines and cards.” ” There’s no other details on that so far, so we’ll have to wait until release to see how it performs.

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JUNE 12, 2023

In this Guest Article, studio head Denny Unger shares his thoughts on Apple’s entrance into the space. Guest Article by Denny Unger Denny Unger is CEO and CCO at Cloudhead Games. Hand-tracking is a logical affordance for AR based spatial computing and no doubt some experiences will work well with that design philosophy.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Meet Apple Vision Pro’s natural interface The Vision Pro needs no controllers As you already know, Apple Vision Pro completely relies on eye and hand tracking. Eye and hand tracking must be more reliable Eye and hand tracking are cool, but the technology behind it is not fully ripe. Absolutely no.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

This could be interesting when paired with XR glasses Apple has removed the functionality of “removing your room ceiling” from Vision Pro There is a video showing hand-tracking performances on Vision Pro: tracking is good, and occlusion is good, but the lag is incredibly high.

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MAY 13, 2024

Apart from being more accurate, Hyperion features some important new features, that the company describes as follows: Microgesture interactions: Hyperion can track small finger movements down to the millimeter, enabling subtle gestures that require minimal effort.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

Abrash listed a dozen technological breakthroughs necessary to achieve this goal, including haptics, hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and computer vision just to name a few. Abrash gave us an early look at Reality Labs’ hand-cloth interaction technology. Image Credit: Facebook (Meta).

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JULY 2, 2021

After I have written my super in-depth review on the Vive Focus 3 , HTC has finally enabled hands tracking on its device , so I decided to talk about it to you. There is a lot to talk about, so keep reading, and I’m sure you will find this article interesting! Hands Tracking on the Vive Focus 3.

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Peter Graham

DECEMBER 9, 2019

One of the standout announcements from Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) in September was the hand tracking reveal for Oculus Quest. As this is an experimental release don’t expect to start playing all your favourite videogames and apps with just your hands right away.

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JANUARY 14, 2023

Unity is continuing to grow their XR platform by releasing a new package that allows developers to add hand tracking as an input without using headset-specific SDKs. Now with this new XR Hands package, developers have access to Unity’s standard […].

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Using Presence Platform’s upgraded Hand Tracking API , we introduced Hand Tracking with our most recent update to Myst on the Meta Quest Platform, titled ‘Hands & More’ We’re super excited to finally let folks play Myst on Quest without physical controllers! Guest Article by Hannah Gamiel.

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AUGUST 8, 2022

Some articles on the metaverse. Here you are my shortlist of the interesting articles about the M-word that I’ve read this week: According to a report from The Information, the prices of virtual lands have plummeted. While I think it’s a bit reductive for the real potentialities of the metaverse, the article is still worth a read.

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MARCH 15, 2022

This is due in large part to its unique combination of professional tools designed specifically for VR, including wireless desktop streaming, keyboard tracking, video conferencing, mixed reality note-taking, and hand-tracking to name a few.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

More info (Quest 3 charging dock — Road To VR) More info (Quest 3 charging dock — Upload VR) Pico 4 bets on hand tracking In its latest runtime update, Pico has added many improvements to Pico 4 , like more options for in-game video recording, and the introduction of auto-updates.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has kicked off Oculus Connect 6 with several exciting announcements, the biggest being an update for Oculus Quest which will see hand-tracking added to the system in 2020. Facebook Reality Labs has achieved this using AI and neural networks to recognise your hands.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

One of them is today’s article, where I interview one of the people whose work has inspired me the most this year: Daniel Beauchamp. Now I leave you to his words and his videos: I’ve embedded many videos in this article, so that you can admire his most famous works. Networked hand tracking!

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MARCH 2, 2017

You’ll hold this up to the headset’s front-facing camera to be scanned, and then you’ll press you hand into the center of the booklet to register it as the input device. Yes, Vivepaper really uses a primitive form of hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. It is being very useful to let indie distribute little games and innovative experiences (like the ones employing hands tracking ) to Quest users. Do you want to discover them with me?

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach to designing an MR game that adapts to different environments. Guest Article by Thomas Van Bouwel Thomas is a Belgian-Brazilian VR developer currently based in Brussels. When it comes to MR platforms, an active discussion on data privacy is important too.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In this article, I’ll share a summary of my impressions. The Lynx R-1 headset houses six cameras: two B&W cameras for 6DoF positional tracking, two IR cameras for hand-tracking, and two RGB visible light cameras for the color passthrough AR mode. Hand-tracking, controllers. AR + Hand-tracking.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

It has hand tracking, and the Pro model also has eye tracking, like Apple’s device. In the meantime, if you would like to subscribe to my newsletter and receive these articles straight in your inbox, I would be very happy! Quest 3 is better for gaming and has precision controllers.

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JUNE 11, 2018

Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” ” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Today Ultraleap has officially released Gemini, the fifth-version of the hands tracking runtime. As usual, this article comes with a video version where I show you my hands-on session with Ultraleap Gemini! This can be an annoying problems when you are using hand tracking to interact with your VR experiences.

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