The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2019

May 2019 “ From the photo, it is possible to see what we already knew from the leaked photos of some months ago: the headset features two frontal wide-baseline cameras , the sensors for outside-in tracking and a slider for hardware IPD adjustment. Leaked photos of Valve’s HMD. But I’ve even more news for today.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus rolled out hand-tracking on Oculus Quest last week as an experimental feature, but the company says it’s waiting on feedback before it commits to bringing the capability to its latest PC headset, the Rift S. And now Oculus has rolled out controller-free hand-tracking as an experimental feature on Quest.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Quest 2 controller-free hand tracking is getting another significant quality update. Hand Tracking 2.0 arrived on Quest 2 in May and the original Quest this month , bringing dramatic improvements to using your hands without controllers. Meta now says Hand Tracking 2.1, Hand Tracking 2.1

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AUGUST 7, 2022

Cyan Development Director Hannah Gamiel detailed the studio’s hand tracking update for Myst on Quest. The new update makes the entirety of Myst playable with just open air hand tracking on Quest headsets. You just point where you want to go. “You can experience that as you play Myst as well.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unplugged is an upcoming VR rhythm game which makes use of full finger-tracking for a Rock Band -like experience, but with an ‘air guitar’ instead of a plastic peripheral. Unplugged , on the other hand, is using hand-tracking in a creative way which promises to finally make your air guitar a reality.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

” Even more was revealed by Jared Ficklin, Chief Creative Technologist at argodesign , who helped develop the Magic Leap 2 hardware. If you’re not amazed because many XR applications have built-in hand tracking, remember that your hands need to be in view of the headset’s cameras for hand tracking to work.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The mixed reality device will supposedly feature a lightweight design as well as support for hand-tracking. Not only that, but you’ll also be able to interact with games and apps using your bare hands thanks to built-in hand-tracking. Hand-tracking. Hand-tracking.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Oculus finally revealed that Quest will get controllerless hand-tracking input. Hand-tracking will open the door to a range of casual use-cases that will broaden the headset’s appeal, but core gaming experiences will still rely on the precision and reliability of controllers. Quest Hand-tracking Demo.

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VRScout

MARCH 27, 2022

First spotted by Game Rant , the patent, which is filed under “video game accessories” and “card/board games”, shows a device that looks a lot like a Quest VR controller, but with a built-in holder attached to the inner part of the controller that could support any type of beverage that comes in a bottle or can.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This week, hand-tracking market leader SpectreXR made various strides in innovating in XR input with various partnerships that aim to elevate immersion for XR training applications and user experiences. They’ve built realistic hand interactions for OctoXR that complement Ultraleap’s hand tracking perfectly.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Since it doesn’t support dedicated controllers like all VR headsets out there though, it’s leaving many developers essentially stuck and unable to port many of the most popular immersive games to Vision Pro. It features robust hardware, which on paper seems to position it as an ideal platform for VR gaming.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

An open-source project is bringing controller-free hand tracking to PC VR headsets. The open-source Linux-based OpenXR platform Monado just added hand tracking. There are no announced plans for the headset positional tracking to come to Windows, though.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Today during Magic Leap’s developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that’s built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture input.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! Hands tracking for Vive Pro. Really fantastic.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2024

This week, reports revealed that Google is laying off a significant portion of its 1P AR hardware team, casting doubts upon its in-house XR product portfolio. In a statement, Google announced: A few hundred roles are being eliminated in DSPA, with the majority of impacts on the 1P AR Hardware team.

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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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XROM

JUNE 2, 2023

The Leap Motion Controller 2 is the ideal hardware for experiencing Ultraleap’s world-class hand tracking. link] It is the most flexible camera ever developed by #Ultraleap and is compatible across platforms and complimentary hardware including VR/MR/AR headsets, PCs, and holographic displays.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

This could be interesting when paired with XR glasses Apple has removed the functionality of “removing your room ceiling” from Vision Pro There is a video showing hand-tracking performances on Vision Pro: tracking is good, and occlusion is good, but the lag is incredibly high.

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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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ARPost

JUNE 14, 2021

With 6DOF hand tracking and controller input, glasses by PhotonLens called Photons can provide real-time posture and form feedback to users. Focused on gaming and fitness, the company was announced at the 2020 World VR Industry Conference last November. However, this is still an improvement over other AR headsets.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Looking for the best spatial games available on Apple Vision Pro? Offering a standalone headset more focused on productivity and media watching, Apple Vision Pro hasn't exactly set the world of gaming alight. Here are our current recommendations. But does it deliver? And what’s it really like to own and use?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

He also said that other OEMs are going to launch headsets with AVP-matching hardware for $1500 this year. Robust to handling objects: Hyperion offers superior hand tracking while holding an object in your hand, making it perfect for mixed reality.

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VRScout

JUNE 1, 2023

Improved hardware Similar to Quest 2 and Quest Pro, Quest 3 is a standalone VR device, meaning no additional hardware is required in order to operate. I’m very curious to see how popular XR games and apps such as Painting VR and Demeo play on the new device. Credit: Meta But that’s not all.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2024

Vision Pro doesn’t have controllers, but it’s clear Apple will need to support immersive hardware input somehow in the future, if only for the greater precision it might bring to industry professionals. Vision Pro is a mixed reality headset with a bit of an identity crisis. Why are controllers so important in the first place?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2023

I guess the reasons for discontinuation are that the current bad economic conditions are forcing the tech giants to cut all the non-essential projects, and for sure Kinect is not the hardware bringing the most revenues to Microsoft. It’s a pity that the teams working on this topic will have difficulties in finding their needed hardware.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

In fact, Apple is adamant about the Pro not having or needing controllers but getting along with eye and hand tracking as its only inputs. If there are a few hidden gems on the Apple Vision Pro, eye tracking and hand tracking are among them.” Almeida sees gaming and input in general as one of these opportunities.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Marking Resolution Games' seventh title with MR support, Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs includes controller and hand tracking support, letting you manually move the stage across your living room. We briefly went hands-on with Angry Birds VR's MR Mode for GDC 2024 on Quest 3, and I found the hand tracking works really well.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Ultraleap’s hand tracking technology has found its way into enterprise virtual reality (VR) headsets like VRgineers’ XTAL or the Varjo VR-2 Pro but for consumers, it was a case of tacking on the Leap Motion controller. VRFocus will continue its coverage of Pimax, reporting back with its latest hardware updates.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 5, 2022

Last Friday, Sony Interactive Entertainment, the hardware vendor behind the famous PlayStation gaming console brand, announced a technology partnership with eye-tracking provider Tobii for the Japanese firm’s sophomore virtual reality (VR) gaming headset. Sony Filles Hand-Tracking Technology.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For everyone else: what sets it apart though is it’s tuned from the ground-up to play full VR games and do both passthrough augmented reality, making it a mixed reality headset by definition. Since it relies on hand tracking, motion controllers aren’t the ‘out-of-the-box’ control method. million in June.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Still in early access, Qualcomm is initially working with Felix & Paul Studios, holo|one, Overlay, Scope AR, TRIPP, Tiny Rebel Games, NZXR, forwARdgame, Resolution Games, and Trigger Global. Qualcomm isn’t leading the push with its own hardware though. Image courtesy Qualcomm Technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2021

To enjoy the haptic feedback, the VR experience you play must have implemented the bHaptics SDK , and luckily bHaptics has managed to get developers to implement it in more than 100 games. We of New Technology Walkers have implemented it into our game HitMotion: Reloaded , too, and we had a very positive experience with it.

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MAY 22, 2023

Phil Schiller, who leads the App Store, pushed for Apple's upcoming headset to have a "strong gaming component", Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The report published this weekend is a rundown of the key Apple executives behind the hardware, software, content and marketing of the headset expected to be branded Apple Reality Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

PlayStation announces four games for PSVR 2. I remember Robert Scoble mentioning that Apple may propose its headset as a content-consumption device and not a gaming device, and this leak seems to confirm his theory. (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Other relevant news.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

The headset has been relatively easy to speculate on, seeing as it is the fourth iteration of flagship headsets in a familiar and built-out hardware and software ecosystem. Make no mistake: at least for now, Apple Reality Pro is another Apple device within the Apple hardware ecosystem. Time will tell how Vision Pro changes the world.”

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Lynx R-1 headset houses six cameras: two B&W cameras for 6DoF positional tracking, two IR cameras for hand-tracking, and two RGB visible light cameras for the color passthrough AR mode. Hand-tracking, controllers. AR + Hand-tracking. Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0. Connectors. USB Type-C.

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