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ManoMotion Brings Hand Gesture Input to Apple’s ARKit

Road to VR

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Facebook launches a dedicated 360 photo and video player , while teasing those of us in America with the prospect of live streaming our Gear VR games to Facebook. Cofounders Tipatat Chennavasin and Marco DeMiroz reveal that content companies making apps for HMDs saw the largest growth, and gaming and entertainment nearly doubled in size.

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Hands-On: The Mira Prism Headset Wants To Be The Google Daydream Of AR

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Instead of relying on hand-based gesture controls every Prism will come with a controller you hold in your hand similar to the Samsung Gear VR or Google Daydream controller. Stern (right) and I (left) playing a multiplayer AR game on two Prism headsets.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband.

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‘VertoStudio’ Is A 3D Modeling Studio For Windows Holographic

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While current VR headsets mainly thrive on gaming, Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Holographic devices certainly look like they’ll have a big emphasis on production, much like its HoloLens developer kit already does. VertoStudio VR is another app that supports that theory.