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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2022

Finally, after waiting for it for weeks, I have received the update to Hands Tracking v2 on my Quest. Do you remember that update of some months ago that improved dramatically the performance of hand tracking on Quest? The stability of two-hands interaction has really changed from night to day! Final impressions.

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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? First announced in late July, the company’s Hands 2.2 Hands can also provide a faster on ramp for users new to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Today Ultraleap has officially released Gemini, the fifth-version of the hands tracking runtime. As usual, this article comes with a video version where I show you my hands-on session with Ultraleap Gemini! This can be an annoying problems when you are using hand tracking to interact with your VR experiences.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Hand tracking even works with Avatar Dynamics , such as any physics-driven hair. Experimental hand tracking is available now on Meta Quest as part of the game’s latest 2022.4.1 The post VRChat Unveils Hand Tracking For Quest 2 & Quest Pro appeared first on VRScout. Image Credit: VRChat.

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VRScout

MARCH 4, 2021

‘First Steps With Hand Tracking’ and ‘Tiny Castle’ are available now via the Oculus App Lab. It was back in 2019 that Facebook first began rolling out support for hand tracking on the Oculus Quest. Both First Steps With Hand Tracking and Tiny Castles are available now for free via the App Lab.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 24, 2023

This week, Osso VR, an immersive training platform for healthcare professionals, is introducing hand-tracking input options into its leading VR learning platform. The power of training is now in your hands. Hand-Tracking to Rule XR Input? 2024 is the year of body-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2021

I have just tried the hands tracking solution offered on the Vive Focus Plus by the Vive Hands Tracking SDK and I want to tell you what has been my experience with it and how it does compare with other hands tracking technologies, like the ones offered by Facebook or UltraLeap. Vive Hand Tracking SDK.

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ARPost

JUNE 25, 2020

Also, for some time now , users have been able to find VR hand tracking games compatible with Oculus Quest. What Are VR Hand Tracking Games? To play regular VR games on Oculus Quest, you need to hold the controllers in each hand. Some of the Best VR Hand Tracking Games for Oculus Quest You Can Play Now.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 2, 2021

After I have written my super in-depth review on the Vive Focus 3 , HTC has finally enabled hands tracking on its device , so I decided to talk about it to you. All you need to know on Hand Tracking on Vive Focus 3 – Video. Hands Tracking on the Vive Focus 3. A look at the Hand tracking SDK.

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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

MAY 12, 2020

When he’s not serving as the head of AR & VR at Shopify, Daniel Beauchamp, better known by his online handle “ Push Matrix “, is pushing the boundaries of Oculus Quest hand tracking technology and sharing his wild experiments with the online community. Image Credit: Danial Beauchamp (Push Matrix).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Ultraleap, a leading company focused on hand-tracking interfaces, this week announced it has secured a £60 million (~$82 million) Series D investment, with the goal of expanding its hand-tracking and mid-air haptic tech in the XR space and beyond. Last month the company released its latest revision.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2022

Using Presence Platform’s upgraded Hand Tracking API , we introduced Hand Tracking with our most recent update to Myst on the Meta Quest Platform, titled ‘Hands & More’ We’re super excited to finally let folks play Myst on Quest without physical controllers! Designing Navigation for Hand Tracking.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2023

10 years after the launch of Leap Motion—which garnered praise for offering some of the best hand-tracking in the industry—the company has announced a next-generation version of the device which now supports standalone XR headsets in addition to Windows and MacOS.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

You can now switch to hand-tracking by simply putting down your Touch controllers. The most noteworthy of which, a new hand-tracking option that — when enabled, allows you to automatically switch between your Oculus Touch controllers and hand-tracking mode. The Oculus Quest just keeps getting better.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Now, thanks to a new and improved hand tracking platform developed by Ultraleap, these interactions will become even more improved and realistic. Introducing Ultraleap’s Fifth-Generation Hand Tracking Platform . It is their fifth-generation hand tracking platform, now available for download for Windows OS.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2020

High fidelity hand tracking lets you pinch, grab, and zoom in AR. To bring hand tracking to Nreal Light glasses, Clay AIR took advantage of the embedded spatial cameras built into the headset to overlay a 3D hand skeleton model in full HD on top of your physical hand. Image Credit: Nreal).

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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

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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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. You see, Wyatt possesses the ability to transform is hands into powerful revolvers at will.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2022

VRChat has brought hand-tracking to its social VR platform in a recent update, letting users opt-in to the experimental feature on Quest 2 and Quest Pro. “You can move around, jump, and use your menu, all with just your hands.” “You can move around, jump, and use your menu, all with just your hands.”

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The latest version of Ultraleap’s hand-tracking tech is finally available today on Windows for use with the Leap Motion Controller accessory and promises to improve two-handed interactions, speed, and robustness. Image courtesy Ultraleap.

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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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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 15, 2021

The 3D puzzler Cubism will be updated this Wednesday, March 17th, to support controller-less hand-tracking. This Wednesday, March 17th, Cubism will get a free update which will allow the game to be played entirely with your hands on Quest and Quest 2 (controllers will of course still work too).

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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. It also includes a few new features to its previously released MR mode that are aiming to appeal to both future owners of Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro.

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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.

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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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VRScout

MAY 10, 2020

Despite having only been available on Oculus Quest for roughly three months, independent developers have already established a sizable catalog of unique hand tracking applications pushing the boundaries of Oculus technology. Last week VR developer Holonautic through its hat into the ring with the release of Hand Physics Lab.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio known for Job Simulator (2016) and Cosmosmious High (2022) , teased a new multiplayer VR game that’s built from the ground-up for hand tracking interactions. ” Coming from Owlchemy Labs, we’re expecting a ton of object interaction.

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Upload VR

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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VRScout

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Unlike existing VR rhythm games like Beat Saber, Audica, and Synth Riders , Unplugged does away with gamepads and even the Touch controllers, instead relying on the Oculus Quest’s built-in hand-tracking. Like an old-school air guitar, players shred their virtual instrument using their bare hands.

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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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