Road to VR

MAY 6, 2020

Controller-less hand-tracking (like what’s currently available as an experimental feature on Quest) has a handful of advantages over using controllers, like convenience and intuitiveness. However, common VR game actions like shooting and moving are difficult to do with hand-gestures alone.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

update, brings support for hand tracking and colocation. 0:00 / 1× In our video above, you can check out some footage of Demeo running in mixed reality with hand tracking. 0:00 / 1× In our video above, you can check out some footage of Demeo running in mixed reality with hand tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

Tuesday, April 7, saw VIVE’s second weekly developer live stream, “Build for Tomorrow – VIVE Hand Tracking SDK.”. The talk, presented by HTC’s senior developer Dario Laverde, focused on how developers can integrate hand tracking into their applications. Hand Tracking in VR Technology – It’s Come a Long Way.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hand-tracking is on the rise in the XR market. In the last couple of years, several emerging high quality and precise hand-tracking technologies were introduced to the market. VRfree is a solid device including precise and scalable hand tracking data. Optimizing 3D models for Augmented Reality 3.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 15, 2023

improves the headset's controller-free hand tracking quality, specifically reducing jitter and improving accuracy and stability. I tried out hand tracking in the home environment on the new OS version and found this to be true, though the latency still feels significantly higher than Meta's hand tracking on Quest.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2023

Eye and hand-tracking technology is quickly becoming crucial to the extended reality experience. As we continue our journey into the digital world, here are some main reasons companies investing in XR should consider implementing eye and hand-tracking tools.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

Eye and hand tracking solutions are emerging as a valuable alternative to old-fashioned control mechanisms. By tracking the natural movement of our eyes and hands, these tools can place us straight in the heart of an immersive experience. Data Collection and Insights. Data Collection and Insights.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX.

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XROM

JUNE 2, 2023

The Leap Motion Controller 2 is the ideal hardware for experiencing Ultraleap’s world-class hand tracking. Hand tracking is a vital component for our customers as it empowers them to interact seamlessly with digital content, enabling faster and more precise manipulation of virtual objects.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 12, 2022

Google debuted MediaPipe, an artificial intelligence (AI) framework that detects people and objects in 3D space, in 2019 and the machine learning (ML) solution accurately tracks targets to transform 2D media as 3D spatial data. MediaPipe provides KNIFT and Objectron to XR developers — two tools to enhance 3D object tracking.

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2020

Oculus Quest hand-tracking turns one apartment into an XR playground. Remember that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character cycles through a bunch of important police data by swiping his hands across a massive holographic display?

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Steki Amusement

JUNE 16, 2022

Real interaction, real time, fastest, most accurate, and most robust hand tracking – for effortless, natural interaction. The world’s most advanced hand tracking. Your hands are intricate and nuanced. World-leading hand tracking captures all the subtlety and complexity of natural hand movements.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In the place of clunky plastic controllers and remotes, we’re seeing the rise of hand and eye tracking solutions, allowing users to move more freely throughout the digital world. But where exactly can the benefits of hand and eye tracking technology begin to reveal themselves? Data Collection and Insights.

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Upload VR

MARCH 21, 2024

Until now however WebXR developers have only been able to use hand tracking and implement direct touch or wrist-driven interactions, as Vision Pro doesn't include tracked controllers and WebXR doesn't support eye tracking. Safari on Apple Vision Pro now lets WebXR leverage the headset's default input system.

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The Ghost Howls

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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

XR data analytics firm CORTEXR has launched its platform on Tuesday to standardise virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies as well as the Metaverse. Eye, gaze, and hand-tracking were also key to learning user behaviours and interactions with immersive content, the survey continued.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

MR headsets aim to mix spatial data with natural environments, as opposed to fully immersive VR headsets; what are this approach’s potential benefits and drawbacks? Benefits: Realistic immersion: By blending spatial data with real environments, MR headsets can create a more realistic experience. However, MR has room to grow.

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The Ghost Howls

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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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2022

As the chart highlights, the most energy intensive computing operations are in data transfer. And that doesn’t mean just wireless data transfer, but even transferring data from one chip inside the device to another. Compute Where You Least Expect It. Image courtesy Meta.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2022

It does this essentially the same way the headset’s controllers are tracked in room-scale space, i.e. through infrared LEDs that are tracked optically through the headset’s onboard camera sensors. With this technology, we can predict their hand position when the hands leave the tracking camera view.”

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Where things changed was when developers got their hands on it. Speaking to Engadget , Pao says the cameras are able to capture depth data within two meters. While many news sites are reporting on this as a dedicated hand-tracking feature, it’s time to clarify a little bit: it’s not.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2023

I had a chance to try their prehistoric adventure titled Meet the Dinosaurs , where you become a time-traveling scientist on a mission to collect some data from 80 million years ago. Divr Labs decided to forgo props or guns, opting instead for hand tracking. At some point, my hand tracking stopped working.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2020

With our devices, astronauts can see and virtually interact with the switches and control panels inside their Starliner capsule and read the real-time data on their crew displays. Projecting the display panels and trajectory data precisely is crucial if VR is to be an effective training tool for such a vital operation.

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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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ARPost

JANUARY 27, 2023

This includes hand tracking beyond simple menus. Assisted reality involves having a hands-free, heads-up digital display that doesn’t interact with the environment or the environment’s occupants. This kind of use case is sometimes called “data snacking” – it provides just enough information exactly when needed.

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VRScout

MARCH 13, 2022

Holoride partnered with a company called Terranet to utilize VoxelFlow, a system of sensors that captures movement data and transates it into gameplay in real-time. Instead of a dedicated motion controls or hand-tracking, an Android smartphone is used as a 3DoF controller. So, how exactly does this system work?

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Meanwhile, Realworld gets its underlying geospatial data from Bing Maps. Over time, it could augment that with its own data layers as user annotations and other social collaborations mentioned above are created. This geo-anchored data could have several points of value.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

XR devices rely on sensitive data inputs to function and enhance users’ experience, but these data inputs also raise legitimate privacy questions … An XR device may record information about a bystander’s activities that they may not want or even be aware is being recorded by others.”. This set up the next section on security.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 21, 2024

Firstly, it was difficult for WebXR’s integration into Vision Pro due to the service requiring controllers and the Vision Pro only using hand tracking. Apple is launching the WebXR input system as an early access feature, with broader integration coming up.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Data, Testing, and Privacy A key problem with designing an adaptive game like Laser Dance is that unexpected room layouts and environments might break some of the levels. To try and prepare for this during development, there is a button in the settings players can choose to press to share their room data with me.

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ARPost

AUGUST 1, 2023

In these situations, Bevilacqua describes “the headset as a vehicle for data collection.” Eye tracking also has promise as an advanced input system. Goldman cited the Apple Vision Pro, which uses a combination of eye tracking and hand-tracking to go completely controller-free.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 26, 2022

Despite ongoing controversy over US data collection concerns, ByteDance continues its immersive journey through its virtual reality (VR) hardware division, Pico Interactive, and its augmented reality (AR) content distribution platform TikTok. Additionally, the Pheonix Pro model has eye and hand tracking support.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Cubic VR founder Haldun Kececigil today revealed a new in-development app called Realworld which allows users to immersively explore the world by leveraging data from Bing Maps.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 24, 2022

Those new to Meta VR must register for a Meta account with an email address, or they can continue to use Facebook and Instagram accounts to login while integrating their social media data for accessing Messenger. Users can pair their devices with the Oculus mobile App to enter their account information.

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