VRScout

APRIL 19, 2022

Meta today announced a handful of significant updates on their way to the Presence Platform designed to improve its hand-tracking capabilities. This includes improved tracking, new gestures, and over-lapping hand movements just to name a few. Motion controllers are so 2016.

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ARPost

APRIL 4, 2023

For the Fectar AR and VR content creation platform users, creating XR content with hand tracking feature has just become simpler and easier. Ultraleap’s hand tracking and mid-air haptic technologies allow XR users to engage with the digital world naturally – with their hands, and without touchscreens, keypads, and controllers.

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Road to VR

JULY 21, 2023

Meta’s hand-tracking has improved by leaps and bounds since we first saw it on the original Quest in 2019, but as Apple serves up stiff competition with its upcoming Vision Pro mixed reality headset , Meta tossed out a new hand-tracking demo that shows off the benefits of its latest software update.

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VRScout

MAY 12, 2020

All the fun of Beat Games’ VR rhythm slasher, minus the physical exercise. Since rolling out on Oculus Quest headsets this past December, Beauchamp has been hard at work pumping out numerous experimental hand tracking projects, each more mind-bending than the last. Image Credit: Danial Beauchamp (Push Matrix).

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VRScout

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Vertigo Games, publisher behind hit VR games such as Arizona Sunshine and After the Fall , is collaborating with developer Anotherway on a new VR music game that will have you shredding a virtual guitar on-stage in front of a sold-out crowd. Image Credit: Vertigo Games. Shredding an air guitar never felt so good.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2022

Meta this week released a new demo app called First Hand to showcase the kind of experiences that developers can build with the company’s controllerless hand-tracking tools. But what’s better than a good hands-on example?

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Unlike conventional VR shooters which rely upon motion controllers to fire weapons and interact with the in-game world, Finger Gun VR claims to be the first VR first-person shooter powered entirely by hand tracking. For more information on Finger Gun VR visit the official Kickstarter. Image Credit: Miru Studio VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 21, 2022

Alongside the announcement that Quest 2 is getting upgraded controllerless hand-tracking which improves robustness, Meta revealed that it had given select developers access to the tech ahead of time, some of which used it to directly improve their apps. The update to hand-tracking is a very big deal for us.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 22, 2023

Apple is going all-in with hand-tracking for its upcoming Vision Pro , but can hand-tracking really replace proper VR controllers? Now rolling out to Quest headsets, Meta says users should notice hand-tracking latency reduced “up to 40%” in regular use, and “up to 75%” during fast movement.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

A new video appears showing the potential of hand tracking in VR. When Facebook announced that they were bringing native hand tracking to the Oculus Quest back in September during Oculus Connect 6 , attendees gleamed with excitement. But how exactly does this exciting new feature apply to VR gaming?

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2021

The 3D puzzler Cubism will be updated this Wednesday, March 17th, to support controller-less hand-tracking. Cubism is a minimalistic 3D puzzler which has become one of the best rated games on Quest. Although the game is also available on Oculus PC and Steam, those versions of the game won’t support hand-tracking.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

A proof-of-concept shows how hand tracking technology is bringing new possibilities to VR gaming. He’s also an avid VR developer working on some of the most unique projects for the Oculus Quest using the headsets’ newly-implemented hand tracking functionality. Image Credit: Danielle Beauchamp.

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2021

Both Oculus Quest and Quest 2 have the ability to track your hands , but precious few games have integrated the tech. Now, indie developer Dennys Kuhnert and Holonautic are getting ready to release a virtual smorgasbord of hand-tracking-based puzzles and tasks. You can currently wishlist the game here.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2022

Meta today announced “major improvements” coming to Quest 2’s controllerless hand-tracking capability. The ‘re-architected computer vision and machine learning approach’ is said to specifically improve reliability for overlapping or fast moving hands and specific gestures. With the 1.0 With the 2.0

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Road to VR

JULY 22, 2020

A newly released update for the Oculus Browser on Quest includes full-finger hand-tracking support for WebXR projects. build of Oculus Browser, which now comes with a hand-tracking API and timewarp layer support, both of which are considered ‘experimental’ at this time.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2021

Hand tracking first became available on the Oculus Quest back in late 2019. Out of enthusiasm for this new input method, I published a demo of Cubism to SideQuest with experimental hand tracking support only a few days later. This informed most of the design decisions regarding hand input. Dynamic Hand Smoothing.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 20, 2023

January is a productive month for extended reality (XR) technologies following CES 2023; as February approaches, Meta and Shopify have introduced hand-tracking innovations for their customers, continuing the journey of XR innovation. Meta Debuts Hand-Tracking v2.1 This Thursday, Meta released hand-tracking v2.1

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Oculus brought controllerless hand-tracking to Oculus Quest as an experimental feature back in December , and while it’s useful for navigating around the headset’s menus when you don’t want to pick up the controllers, developers have begun prototyping more creative uses for the tech. Finger Skateboard.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Unplugged is like Guitar Hero, although instead of picking up a dedicated peripheral and jamming away, it relies on Quest’s native hand-tracking to let you shred on an air guitar without controllers. Publisher: Vertigo Games. As a rock fan, I really love the selection here: Image courtesy Vertigo Games.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Facebook’s Reality Labs (FRL) today revealed new research into hand tracking which aims to bring touch typing to AR/VR users, all without the need of a physical keyboard. As interesting and useful those use cases may be, we’re still very much in the infancy of hand tracking and its potential uses for virtual reality.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Every VR developer needs to have a hand tracking plan now. Additionally, this will be a harder sell over time on platforms with controllers as they adopt hand tracking as their primary input. It would be a really bad plan to start developing a controller-only VR game just because that is what has been done before.

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2020

Pimax has announced that both eye and hand tracking modules, both of which were included as stretch goals in its original 2017 Pimax “8K” headset Kickstarter, are shipping out to backers soon. “Backers will be able to get the eye tracking for $99 for a limited time,” the spokesperson says.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Hand-tracking on Quest rolled out as an experimental feature in late 2019, but Oculus is letting it gestate before it will accept third-party apps with hand-tracking. Hand-tracking brings many benefits to Quest, especially ease-of-use. SEE ALSO Three Totally Creative Uses of Quest Hand-tracking.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2020

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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Resolution Games revealed its popular tabletop dungeon-crawling RPG Demeo now features hand-tracking support on Quest 2 and Quest Pro with its latest mixed reality update. Added to Demeo last Fall, the game’s mixed reality mode lets players take the gameboard out of the virtual world and into their living rooms.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta Platforms unveiled last week the latest iteration of its hand-tracking technologies as a demo for developers, allowing users to explore virtual worlds with their hands rather than physical controllers. Modular systems for adjusting hand-tracking functions such as pose recognition and velocity tracking.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Quest Store & App Lab apps can now use hand tracking and Quest 3 or Quest Pro controllers simultaneously. But there's a delay between switching modes, and of course in hand tracking mode the controllers disappear and stop tracking. But more importantly, it enables mixing of hands and controllers.

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MARCH 28, 2024

An inventive early concept for adapting the classic game of billiards to VR is now on Quest's App Lab today after just a few days of development. We don't normally cover games this early in development, but Hayden Jackson 's spatial adaptation of pool caught our eye.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

By using your hands for shadow puppetry, Silhouette is one of the more unique VR puzzle games in recent times, and that’s available now on Quest 2. Developed by Team Panoptes, best known for PC VR game Panoptic , Silhouette presents a a casual adventure game exclusively controlled by hand-tracking.

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Oculus announced today that hand-tracking on Quest is rolling out starting today with basic functionality. A hand-tracking SDK will be made available next week, giving developers the ability to create third-party applications which use the new feature. Enable Oculus Quest Hand-tracking.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2021

HTC is serial-teasing its next VR headset again, this time hyping the reveal of Vive Flow, which is reportedly a slim and light 6DOF standalone focused on media consumption, casual gaming, and VR experiences. The post Report: Vive Flow is a Consumer VR Standalone with Heavy Emphasis on Hand-tracking appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 10, 2020

There’s no comprehensive app out there yet for learning sign language in VR, however a student at the computer science department of the Bern University of Applied Science is using Oculus Quest’s native hand-tracking to see just how close we might get to achieving that goal with today’s tech.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Meta added a hand tracking teleportation system to its Interaction SDK. The Interaction SDK is a Unity framework providing high quality common hand interactions for controllers and hand tracking. You can try out Meta’s hand tracking teleportation system in the First Hand demo on App Lab.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Quest 3's new Wide Motion Mode expands the volume of hand tracking. It does this by constantly running inside out upper body tracking in the background. When a hand is occluded or out of the view of all the tracking cameras, Wide Motion Mode will estimate the hand position based on the rest of your arm.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Resolution Games confirms VR tabletop dungeon crawler, Demeo, is to receive hand tracking support for the Quest platform. ” Hand tracking uses the headset cameras to track hand movements allowing users to play controller-free. .”

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