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EyeSight demos VR gesture control using standard phone.

AllThingsVR

EyeSight demos VR gesture control using standard phone hardware Over the past few years EyeSight has been establishing a name for itself by bringing gesture control to a series of computing platforms, from mobile devices to smart eyeglasses.

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The Continuing Saga of Focals by North

ARVR

The company, which was founded by three friends, Stephen Lake, Matthew Bailey and Aaron Grant, had formed the company, then called Thalmic Labs, to develop an EMG based gesture controller, the Mio Armband , (which is still the most capable EMG controller ever offered to consumers), before pivoting into the perilous waters of augmented reality.

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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

After ZeniMax was awarded $500M from their suit against Oculus in January (which Oculus is appealing), now Oculus CTO John Carmack is personally suing ZeniMax for $22.5M — what he claims is still owed him from 2009 when ZeniMax bought his game studio id Software (which birthed classics like Doom, for Pete’s sake). …and more.

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How Will Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses Square Up with Rivals?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Regarding hand tracking, Xiaomi’s latest AR smart glasses boast micro gesture controls, leading to enhanced human-computer interfacing (HCI) capabilities. These allow users to swipe virtual pages in manuals and eBooks, exit apps, navigate maps, and other controls.

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Using XR to Change Everything (Without Changing Anything) with Lance-AR’s Lance Anderson

XR for Business Podcast

So I’m coming from — let’s just round it down, let’s call it 15 years — in the enterprise space selling software and services and automation, things like that. And really what we do now is we connect enterprise users, AR hardware manufacturers and AR software providers, the problem solvers. Lance: Sure.

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Using XR to Change Everything (Without Changing Anything) with Lance-AR’s Lance Anderson

XR for Business Podcast

So I’m coming from — let’s just round it down, let’s call it 15 years — in the enterprise space selling software and services and automation, things like that. And really what we do now is we connect enterprise users, AR hardware manufacturers and AR software providers, the problem solvers. Lance: Sure.