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Hands-On: Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Feels Great, But It’s Not Perfect

VRScout

Basically, the Quest is using its built-in depth sensors and cameras to track each knuckle and the surface of your hands and then uses that data to mirror those movements in your VR environment. The technology approximates the shape of your hand and creates a set of 3D points to accurately represent your hand and finger movement in VR.

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The 2016 Proto Awards: See Who Took Home VR’s Biggest Honors

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Best Game: Raw Data – Survios. Blocks – Leap Motion. The Martian VR Experience – Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Innovation Lab, RSA Films, The Virtual Reality Company. Raw Data – Survios. Most Transportive Experience: Apollo 11 VR – Immersive VR Education Ltd. The Climb – Crytek. ADR1FT – Three One Zero. Furness III.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

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Leap MotionLeap Motion. Survios – Raw Data. Nominees for Interactive VR Media/Film of the Year. Merge VR – Goggles. Google – Daydream View. Samsung – Gear VR. Homido – V2. Nominees for VR Hardware of the Year. Somniacs – Birdly. Oculus – Touch.

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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." The film was heavily circulated, covered extensively across media and news outlets when it released.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.01): Facebook is very confident in Quest 2 sales, Valve is working on Neural Interfaces, and more!

The Ghost Howls

When I tried the Looxid Labs add-on for the Vive I’ve found it interesting, but its data were pretty noisy, and some community members defined it as “another random numbers generator”. The Sundance Film Festival has just kickstarted. I’m very curious to discover how this will play out. Rony Abovitz launches Sun And Thunder.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. Location is at the heart of the AR Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.15): Apple kills its AR glasses, Oculus full-steam ahead on 2nd gen VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

In all of this, someone has created the design for a Leap Motion mount for the Index that exploits the frunk. These stats contain very interesting data, like the trends of VR, the differences between the VR tastes of males and females and the differences between US and Chinese users.

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