Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2024

. “Immersive gameplay transforms the user’s real-world surroundings into a dynamic skatepark environment, allowing for interaction with virtually any object, shape, or terrain,” developer Reality Crisis says in a blog post.

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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. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs.

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The Ghost Howls

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. I believe there will be many use cases for this.

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VRScout

APRIL 10, 2018

The company reveals plans to release their prototype design for a $100 hand-tracking AR headset. If you’re looking to add accurate hand-tracking technology to your VR or AR experience, there are few options outside Leap Motion technology. Where’s your jaw at the moment?

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Road to VR

JULY 26, 2023

Hand Tracking and Eye Tracking Hand tracking  allows you to interact in virtual and mixed reality environments without separate controllers. With hand tracking , you use your hands to control the virtual environment just as you would interact with the physical world.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A combination of remote desktop streaming and hand-tracking technology allows you to access your personal computer and type on your real-world keyboard without having to remove your headset. There’s also a virtual whiteboard, notetaking capabilities, support for video calls, and more. .

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. However, the Leap Motion Controller’s hardware was finalised in 2012, and we’ve been waiting patiently for the second phase of Orion, a brand new tracking system designed for VR and built in to headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2023

It’s been a very pleasant week for me: on the 15th I celebrated the 7th Birthday of my blog , and it was terrific to receive greetings, compliments, and kind words from many people in the community! And what is a better way of celebrating my blog’s birthday than writing a new fantastic roundup of the best XR news of the week?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

More info (How Puzzling Places was ported to the Apple Vision Pro) New apps get released to the Vision Pro every week : Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator have been announced for it (I teased this on my blog a few weeks ago). And TikTok is the first social med ia announcing a native app for it (even if it is just a 2D app).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

In 4 days it will be the 4th birthday of my blog, and so in this period, I want to write some special posts to celebrate. Hello Daniel, I am very pleased to have you on my blog today! But in my spare time, I love working on crazy VR experiments, especially around hand tracking. Networked hand tracking!

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

MARCH 23, 2022

In a blog post , Snap says NextMind will help drive “long-term augmented reality research efforts within Snap Lab,” the company’s hardware team that’s currently building AR devices. “Snap Lab’s programs explore possibilities for the future of the Snap Camera, including Spectacles. Snap is getting close too.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

The three-day event featured videos and special blog posts. On Tuesday, a post went live on the VIVE blog detailing what their digital GDC alternative offerings will look like. While Facebook’s blog did a good job of fielding comments on the videos and blog posts, it didn’t offer any live content.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

Last week, New World Notes asked an interesting question to its community : if the Quest has for sure surpassed the 10M sold units, why hasn’t Meta celebrated this yet? This week, the same blog proposes an interesting theory: the retention of Quest is not as big as we imagine. More info (First Hand?—?Official A post worth reading.

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The Ghost Howls

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. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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VRScout

JUNE 1, 2022

The experience, while simple, offers an excellent look at the many capabilities of the Presence Platform, from hand-tracking and voice commands to its impressive Scene understanding capabilities. For more information on Meta’s Presence Platform check out the official blog post here. Image Credit: Meta.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Simula One is also said to include hand tracking via UltraLeap, a passthrough AR mode so you can keep an eye on your surroundings, and “other goodies to be unveiled in the coming weeks and months,” SimulaVR founder George Singer says in a blog post.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Details at PlayStation Blog: [link] pic.twitter.com/e97fVvHvZx. for the base model, letting customers get their hands on the sophomore product in February 2023. The experience utilises the PSVR2’s eye-tracking, spatial audio, and haptic feedback systems to create a fully immersive experience. New Titles.

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VRScout

JUNE 1, 2023

Touch Plus controllers ditch the outer tracking rings featured on the Quest and Quest 2 controllers, but lack the onboard cameras included with the Touch Pro controllers. The headset will also feature built-in hand-tracking out-of-the-box. That said, you can pair the Touch Pro controllers with Quest 3 for an improved experience.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It’s part hardware, part software, built from the ground up to tackle the unique challenges of hand tracking for VR. It comes with a huge increase in the general capabilities of our tracking technology and a profound shift in the reliability guarantees of markerless motion tracking systems. We’ve unlocked lower latency.

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Upload VR

MAY 24, 2023

Created by solo developer David Addis, who previously worked on flatscreen games Burnout Paradise, Fable 2 and Black, Home Detective is a new mixed reality experience for Quest that supports passthrough and hand tracking. There's also a 'Pure VR' mode, which supports seated play and smaller play areas.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Leap Motion, the optical hand-tracking firm, was acquired by Bristol, UK-based haptics company Ultrahaptics earlier this year. Before the acquisition of Leap Motion and the subsequent rebranding, Ultrahaptics was best known for its mid-air haptic technology which uses ultrasound to project tactile sensations onto users’ hands.

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The Ghost Howls

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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

To do that, you just use your controller or hand tracking to navigate to the home menu and then to the Experimental Features panel. You can read more about the Quests “Hey Facebook” feature on the Oculus Blog. Facebook knows that users are going to have concerns, which is why “Hey Facebook” is strictly an opt-in experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Experiments around MR and natural interactions We are in the middle of a paradigm shift: before the focus was on VR, while now is on MR. Before the focus was on controllers-driven interactions, while now natural interactions (like hand tracking) are getting always more important.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. This research, taken further, could bring many interesting innovations in the AR field.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2019

Leap Motion, the pioneer in optical hand-tracking, has been acquired by Ultrahaptics, the enterprise-focused immersive haptics company. The company maintains in a company blog post that the acquisition won’t affect support for the Leap Motion community, and that “new and exciting products” are coming down the bend.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Best used for hand-tracking and UX. The 2-hand interactions have been introduced on the 6th of September with this blog post. Now that you can pass an object from a hand to another, Interhaptics wanted to add another hand feature to increase even further the realism.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2020

Tuesday, April 7 – Build for Tomorrow: VIVE Hand Tracking SDK. The company has also provided a description of each talk via its blog post. Build for Tomorrow: VIVE Hand Tracking SDK . Sr Developer Evangelist Dario Laverde will walk you through the VIVE Hand Tracking SDK and use cases. Development.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

WebXR experiences with hand tracking are some of the first truly cross-platform worlds you can visit from both an Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest. We are sad to announce that Mozilla Hubs will be shutting down on May 31, 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It turns out that it has been delayed again since the company is not satisfied with the quality of the hands tracking offered by the currently-used tracking cameras. The Lynx will ship with hands tracking as the primary interaction method, so high-quality hands tracking is crucial for this headset.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2020

In this blog post, we analyze how V-commerce scenario creators can leverage Haptics and hand interactions to increase the value for its customers. Thanks to this, you can integrate complex hand tracking interaction simply within Interhaptics. Interhaptics is based on a controller agnostic architecture.

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VRScout

APRIL 26, 2018

With Leap Motion’s Project North Star set to hit the streets in the coming months, the American-based hand-tracking depth sensor manufacturer has officially begun teasing the various ambitious design concepts made possible by the open source AR development kit.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

According to a blog post from the company , the initial support is still limited, allowing the headset to render SteamVR content but with older tracking no input. The company says they’ll soon be adding optimized tracking and allow user’s hands to function as controllers thanks to the headset’s hand-tracking tech.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It’s since when I launched my blog that I always dreamed of interviewing someone from Oculus , and finally today this dream has come true. At OC6, Oculus has introduced many amazing features for Oculus Quest, like Hand Tracking, Go emulation and Oculus Link. You really do feel like you’re defying distance.

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