Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The Vive’s Lighthouse tracking system is an impressive piece of tech, considering it boasts sub-millimeter, 3D room-scale positional tracking for a VR headset and hand controllers using lasers. But haven’t you ever wished the Vive controllers could be used for more than just hand tracking?

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Read our hands-on impressions here: UploadVR Harry Baker Australia-based studio Toast Interactive are finally branching out from planks to platformers with Max Mustard , a Moss or Astro Bot-like experience melding third and first person gameplay together with a hefty squeeze of charm on top.

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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 - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2024

The new smart glasses are available for pre-order in 15 regions, covering the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe. To interact with virtual objects, BILT’s Vision Pro solution enables frontline workers to collaborate on digital twins using ultra-high-resolution displays, eye tracking, hand tracking, and voice commands.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

While this decision was very smart on the business side because the major headset manufacturers were already building their hands tracking solutions (e.g. Sony has finally revealed that PlayStation 5 is coming on November 12th (in America, Australia, Korea and other countries; rest of the world is on November, 19th).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Video Games Deluxe, the Australia-based studio working exclusively with Rockstar that has worked on L.A. The tool is very straightforward: it uses Quest hands tracking to let you put your bare hand in the right pose to grab the object that you have in front of you. Other relevant news. Image by Rockstar). Noire: The V.R.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

We have seen that hands tracking has enabled new kinds of experiences that we hadn’t even thought of before (think about the great experiments by Daniel Beauchamp ), and I’m sure that the same will happen with passthrough AR, too; Facebook is building a platform that will work for all future headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. The solution is part of Mediapipe, the framework to create machine-learning-based solutions , and offers 21-points hand tracking on your mobile phone.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

At the time of writing they are: United States Canada Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Republic of Ireland Spain Sweden Switzerland UK Australia Japan New Zealand Taiwan. If you a content provider, can your partner with Oculus to provide your business applications to companies?

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 8, 2019

In conjunction with the chairs, the Entermission system uses HTC Vive Pro headsets as well as Leap Motion hand tracking to solve puzzles. She owned and operated escape room business Escape Hunt in Australia and New Zealand since 2014. Then in 2017, she co-founded Virtual Reality Room in Sydney, Australia.

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Upload VR

MARCH 26, 2023

Unplugged Originally available on Quest as a hand tracking-exclusive game, Unplugged on PSVR 2 is a slightly different premise. With no support for hand tracking on Sony’s headset, developers Anotherway offer the controller-only version on Unplugged on PSVR 2.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Global here refers to Europe, Japan, South Korea, and China – Pico 4 isn’t sold in North America or Australia & New Zealand. Meta has been continuously improving Quest’s hand tracking with software updates though, so Pico has a tough act to follow here.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

My interview earlier today was with the president of HTC VIVE, Alvin Wang Graylin, and one of the things that they announced last week at the VIVE conference is that they’re now doing eye tracking, and hand tracking, and lip tracking, and I think these are new — fairly new — technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

My interview earlier today was with the president of HTC VIVE, Alvin Wang Graylin, and one of the things that they announced last week at the VIVE conference is that they’re now doing eye tracking, and hand tracking, and lip tracking, and I think these are new — fairly new — technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In my opinion, the front cameras will be used in the future to provide hands tracking and maybe also some kind of objects tracking / detection. And then let’s not forget that this device is compatible with the Vive Trackers , with all the possibilities that they add to VR (props tracking, full body tracking, etc…).

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Since then, Facebook has continued to roll out new features such as native hand tracking and Oculus Link , which allows users to experience PC VR HMD quality on the standalone headset. The ‘Cyberdelic Incubator’ in Melbourne, Australia, is promoting a more conscious approach to technology through immersive media.

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