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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

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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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Florida based Outer Brain Studios has released their indie VR horror game just in time for the season

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Florida based development studio Outer Brain Studios have released their VR survival horror adventure ORGAN QUARTER. The game is being designed to leverage hand-tracked and room-scale VR to provide the most intense and unsettling experience possible. The title is available on Steam (for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift) now.

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VRvisu Lets Doctors Study Patient’s Tumors In VR

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It’s VR to the rescue yet again, as a new app built by a University of North Florida student could dramatically improve cancer treatment. Smith has been using an HTC Vive for the project though, instead of the kit’s position-tracked controllers, he can be seen on News 4 Jax using a Leap Motion sensor for hand-tracking.

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Essential XR Hand and Eye Tracking Events for Your Calendar in 2022

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With panel discussions, an “Experience Emporium” where you can discover the benefits of eye and hand tracking yourself, and trade exhibitions, there’s plenty to do. This event is also home to a host of keynote speakers and experts who you can chat with about your tracking requirements. XR Fair Tokyo. Immerse Global Summit.

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Magic Leap Reveals Music App Collaboration with Sigur Rós, New Images

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Pitchfork’s Marc Hogan recently visited the company’s Florida offices to see a new Magic Leap AR experience built in collaboration with the band Sigur Rós. Though Hogan specifically notes he can’t talk much about the Magic Leap headset itself, the article does reveal a few telling details.

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Magic Leap to Launch in 19 Countries, Exec Says

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of the entire industry” She mentioned Magic Leap manufactures in Florida, United States, and that the industry realised the difficulty and complexity of producing such devices. Magic Leap 2 stands on the shoulders of giants and the force. Lisa Watts, Vice President of Product Marketing and Developer Programs for Magic Leap.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

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Johnson has a long career as an executive at Qualcomm and Microsoft, and will so be able to bring some experience and pragmatism to the Florida-based Startup, that until now has made countless business mistakes. Magic Leap has finally a new CEO: Peggy Johnson. It is also good to see a woman become the CEO of such a well-funded company.

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