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Unreal Engine Apps Can Now Be Built with Quest Hand-tracking

Road to VR

An update to Oculus developer tools has brought a handful of updates, including support for Quest hand-tracking in Unreal Engine 4. Oculus released controllerless hand-tracking on Oculus Quest as a beta feature back in late 2019.

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Unreal Engine 5: A Tutorial for VR Designers 

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Unreal Engine, one of the leading creation tools in the digital development market, has its own selection of valuable VR modes and technologies specifically suited to virtual reality. The latest version of Unreal Engine, UE5 (Unreal Engine 5) shipped in April 2022 this year, after an initial period of early access in 2021.

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Qualcomm is Preparing Developers for the Coming Wave of Smartphone-tethered AR Glasses

Road to VR

“Developers will also receive a robust resource library that includes documentation, sample code, tutorials, knowledge bases, and tools to help accelerate their development.” Snapdragon Spaces includes SDKs for Unreal Engine and Unity, and is based on OpenXR. Image courtesy Qualcomm Technologies.

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First Hand analysis: a good open source demo for hand-based interactions

The Ghost Howls

I finally managed (with some delay) to find the time to try First Hand, Meta’s opensource demo of the Interaction SDK , which shows how to properly develop hand-tracked applications. First Hand. First Hand Trailer. First Hand is a small application that Meta has developed and released on App Lab.

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Developers Begin Exploring Magic Leap SDK

VRScout

Announced today on the company’s site , developers can now explore Magic Leap’s software development kit and dive into the Creator Portal to find documentation, tutorials, and more. Secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap is finally taking its first step towards opening up their platform to outside developers.

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Magic Leap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More

Road to VR

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking.

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Triton Project is an affordable DIY AR headset

The Ghost Howls

Then for the next 6 months I built the platform and documented everything to be replicated by the community both in the user experience and pure excitement as AR brings your surface to life. . This is the official documented guide for building a Triton headset. Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking.

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