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Today at the the World Conference on VR Industry in China, HTC announced plans to bring hand & finger tracking to Vive Pro via the headset’s front-facing cameras. HTC also indicates that the capability can track individual finger movements too. MORE
After showing off a prototype of the Grordbattle multiplayer first-person shooter at the Game Developer Conference, Magic Leap has added a new Shared World feature in version 0.95.0 of the Lumin OS update released this week. MORE
We’ve seen plenty of new usecases for both, including inside-out positional tracking for mobile VR headsets and some pretty mind-blowing experiments too, but this is the first we’ve seen hand-tracking integrated into either AR platform. MORE
Comments made by Oculus CTO John Carmack at Oculus Connect 5 and Twitter suggest that the upcoming Oculus Rift S cameras could support finger tracking. So given the enormous relative power of a PC, shouldn’t Rift S be capable of finger tracking? MORE
Where things changed was when developers got their hands on it. An unnamed Japanese developer used the dual cameras to do hand-tracking without the Vive’s motion controllers, though this comes with obvious limitations — what do you do when your hands aren’t in your camera’s field of vision? While many news sites are reporting on this as a dedicated hand-tracking feature, it’s time to clarify a little bit: it’s not. MORE
HTC reveals native hand/finger tracking for Vive Pro alongside 6DoF functionality for Vive Focus. HTC revealed the devices exciting tracking capabilities during their time at last weeks 2018 World Conference on VR Industry in Nanchang, China. MORE
This device then uses infrared scanning technology to detect the position of your hands in 3D space. It can even track individual fingers and has been well received by the immersive community so far. The improved tracking was the easier of the two for the team to accomplish. MORE
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. MORE
Now that the dust has finally settled on Microsoft's big HoloLens 2 announcement, the company is circling back to offer more granular detail on some aspects of the device we still don't know about. MORE
Hand Tracking hardware gear vr hand tracking leap motion usb-c MORE
Enterprise VR headset manufacturer VRgineers and Leap Motion , the company behind its eponymous optical hand tracker, announced they’re working together to embed Leap Motion’s tech into professional-grade VR headsets. MORE
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 ! Watch the video below to see the 6 DOF tracking in action. MORE
” Notably, the researcher’s hardware appears to use fairly expensive Optitrack cameras for the system rather than the buggy Oculus Sensor tracking system the company used for the consumer Rift. MORE
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Leap Motion continues to improve its hand tracking technology with the latest update today. Software updates issued over the last few years for Leap Motion’s hand-tracking sensors have steadily improved the hardware’s functionality. MORE
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Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” Updated Tracking. Faster and more consistent hand initialization. MORE
During an interview with UploadVR at this year’s Augmented World Expo, The post The Meta 2 Begins Shipping In Two Weeks With Improved Hand Tracking appeared first on UploadVR. AR hardware alpha ar beta gribetz hand tracking Headset meron Meta Meta 2 tracking updated MORE
Today at its Vive Ecosystem Conference 2018 in China, HTC said that the 3DOF Vive Focus controller will see a 6DOF mode, and further said that the headset will soon include controller-less hand-tracking for gesture input. Hand-tracking for Gesture Input. MORE
Oculus Video Shows Advanced Hand Tracking Gloves via @UploadVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 25, 2017. virtual reality augmented reality vr ar MORE
Hand-tracking looks likely to play a big part in that future, and Leap Motion is one of a few companies leading the charge in this department. Leap’s latest, well, leap is to bring its controller-free hand tracking tech to mobile VR headsets. Leap’s demo was its usual one, in which you can put your hands together, pinch, and stretch out to create different sized blocks. Tagged with: hand tracking , leap motion , qualcomm , standalone. MORE
Hand Tracking hardware Intel VR Headsets hand tracking merged reality movidius realsense MORE
Interestingly there will also be a talk on hand tracking, a feature we reported was on the way to Vive Pro some time ago. Vive’s work in hand tracking will also be on display here as well as eye tracking (which can be seen in the upcoming HTC Vive Pro Eye ). HTC Vive HTC Vive Cosmos HTC Vive Focus HTC Vive Focus Plus HTC Vive Pro HTC Vive Pro Eye VR Industry News eye tracking GDC hand tracking htc htc vive MORE
Earlier this year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a new form of input being developed over at Oculus: hand tracking gloves. Though there’s no text to accompany the clip it looks like the back of the hand is lined with markers. MORE
What made the VR 820 so compelling was that it had 6-DoF tracking as well as integrated compute (Snapdragon 820) which was on par with all the latest flagship phones. It even had support for eye tracking, which we now know was through a partnership with none other than SMI. MORE
The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. This allowed users to finally ‘see’ their hands in VR, with fully-tracked fingers, marking the beginning of a fruitful relationship between Leap Motion and VR. MORE
The self-contained virtual reality headset makes use of Intel’s vision technologies to create a wireless, inside-out positionally tracked headset. Let There Be Hands. II’s built in RealSense hand-tracking. Tracking and Performance . MORE
Last week I got the chance to go hands-on with the new enterprise-focused 5K VR headset (that’s 2560 x 1440 per eye, or 5120 x 1440 total,) XTAL, from VRgineers , the same company behind the VRHero 5K headset. MORE
Qualcomm has debuted an updated version of their VR Headset Reference Design now with Leap Motion’s new 180-degree hand-tracking to bring gesture control to mobile VR headsets. The new headset and Leap Motion tracking module was shown off during last week’s GDC 2017. MORE
A few weeks back I went hands-on with Leap Motion’s mobile VR hand-tracking solution, and now you can see it in action for yourself. Here users can create different shapes by pinching their hands together and then pulling them apart. MORE
At F8 this week, Oculus showed work being done on hand-tracking to bring more intuitive control and accurate avatars into VR. Beyond hand-tracking, she also revealed the Oculus ‘Half Dome’ prototype , a headset with a 140 degree field of view and varifocal display. MORE
This time last year, computer vision company uSens introduced a stereo camera module capable of hand tracking. Using a smartphone's RGB camera, uSensAR Hand Tracking uses computer vision and deep learning to track the full hand's skeletal dynamic. MORE
If two hands are better than one, then two hand-tracking SDKs must be better than one as well. After uSens announced its Hand Tracking SDK at the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara on Thursday, ManoMotion unveiled the latest version of its own SDK. MORE
After improving hand-tracking and adding multi-user sharing features in the last Lumin OS update, Magic Leap has upped the ante yet again. In the Lumin OS 0.95 MORE
The pair confirmed to UploadVR today that the Goblin, a three degrees of freedom (3DOF) all-in-one device that’s usually operated with a 3DOF controller, is getting support for uSens’ Fingo hand-tracking solution. The Fingo hardware provides 26DOF tracking that brings your hands into virtual worlds, following hand position and finger movements to allow to realistically interact with the environment around you. MORE
GDC and MWC are just around the corner, and Qualcomm is diving head-first into virtual reality with a new dev-kit and hand-tracking technology. The chipmaker may be best known for its smartphone processors, but that same silicon is just as much at home in head-mounted displays. MORE
Founded in 2010, Leap Motion would release its initial product (today called the ‘ Leap Motion Controller ‘) in 2012, a desktop-focused peripheral which offered touchless hand-tracking. MORE
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At F8 this week, Oculus showed work being done on hand-tracking to bring more intuitive control and accurate avatars into VR. Beyond hand-tracking, she also revealed the Oculus ‘Half Dome’ prototype , a headset with a 140 degree field of view and varifocal display.
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After improving hand-tracking and adding multi-user sharing features in the last Lumin OS update, Magic Leap has upped the ante yet again. In the Lumin OS 0.95
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Enterprise VR headset manufacturer VRgineers and Leap Motion , the company behind its eponymous optical hand tracker, announced they’re working together to embed Leap Motion’s tech into professional-grade VR headsets.
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Today at its Vive Ecosystem Conference 2018 in China, HTC said that the 3DOF Vive Focus controller will see a 6DOF mode, and further said that the headset will soon include controller-less hand-tracking for gesture input. Hand-tracking for Gesture Input.
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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 ! Watch the video below to see the 6 DOF tracking in action.
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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.
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This time last year, computer vision company uSens introduced a stereo camera module capable of hand tracking. Using a smartphone's RGB camera, uSensAR Hand Tracking uses computer vision and deep learning to track the full hand's skeletal dynamic.
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Now that the dust has finally settled on Microsoft's big HoloLens 2 announcement, the company is circling back to offer more granular detail on some aspects of the device we still don't know about.
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This device then uses infrared scanning technology to detect the position of your hands in 3D space. It can even track individual fingers and has been well received by the immersive community so far. The improved tracking was the easier of the two for the team to accomplish.
UploadVR
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Leap Motion continues to improve its hand tracking technology with the latest update today. Software updates issued over the last few years for Leap Motion’s hand-tracking sensors have steadily improved the hardware’s functionality.
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Interestingly there will also be a talk on hand tracking, a feature we reported was on the way to Vive Pro some time ago. Vive’s work in hand tracking will also be on display here as well as eye tracking (which can be seen in the upcoming HTC Vive Pro Eye ). HTC Vive HTC Vive Cosmos HTC Vive Focus HTC Vive Focus Plus HTC Vive Pro HTC Vive Pro Eye VR Industry News eye tracking GDC hand tracking htc htc vive
UploadVR
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Earlier this year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a new form of input being developed over at Oculus: hand tracking gloves. Though there’s no text to accompany the clip it looks like the back of the hand is lined with markers.
UploadVR
MARCH 2, 2017
Hand-tracking looks likely to play a big part in that future, and Leap Motion is one of a few companies leading the charge in this department. Leap’s latest, well, leap is to bring its controller-free hand tracking tech to mobile VR headsets. Leap’s demo was its usual one, in which you can put your hands together, pinch, and stretch out to create different sized blocks. Tagged with: hand tracking , leap motion , qualcomm , standalone.
UploadVR
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During an interview with UploadVR at this year’s Augmented World Expo, The post The Meta 2 Begins Shipping In Two Weeks With Improved Hand Tracking appeared first on UploadVR. AR hardware alpha ar beta gribetz hand tracking Headset meron Meta Meta 2 tracking updated
Next Reality AR
MAY 31, 2018
If two hands are better than one, then two hand-tracking SDKs must be better than one as well. After uSens announced its Hand Tracking SDK at the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara on Thursday, ManoMotion unveiled the latest version of its own SDK.
Road to VR
MARCH 10, 2017
Qualcomm has debuted an updated version of their VR Headset Reference Design now with Leap Motion’s new 180-degree hand-tracking to bring gesture control to mobile VR headsets. The new headset and Leap Motion tracking module was shown off during last week’s GDC 2017.
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Founded in 2010, Leap Motion would release its initial product (today called the ‘ Leap Motion Controller ‘) in 2012, a desktop-focused peripheral which offered touchless hand-tracking.
Road to VR
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The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. This allowed users to finally ‘see’ their hands in VR, with fully-tracked fingers, marking the beginning of a fruitful relationship between Leap Motion and VR.
UploadVR
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A few weeks back I went hands-on with Leap Motion’s mobile VR hand-tracking solution, and now you can see it in action for yourself. Here users can create different shapes by pinching their hands together and then pulling them apart.
Road to VR
JUNE 11, 2018
Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” Updated Tracking. Faster and more consistent hand initialization.
UploadVR
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Last week I got the chance to go hands-on with the new enterprise-focused 5K VR headset (that’s 2560 x 1440 per eye, or 5120 x 1440 total,) XTAL, from VRgineers , the same company behind the VRHero 5K headset.
UploadVR
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The pair confirmed to UploadVR today that the Goblin, a three degrees of freedom (3DOF) all-in-one device that’s usually operated with a 3DOF controller, is getting support for uSens’ Fingo hand-tracking solution. The Fingo hardware provides 26DOF tracking that brings your hands into virtual worlds, following hand position and finger movements to allow to realistically interact with the environment around you.
UploadVR
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
We’ve seen plenty of new usecases for both, including inside-out positional tracking for mobile VR headsets and some pretty mind-blowing experiments too, but this is the first we’ve seen hand-tracking integrated into either AR platform.
UploadVR
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” Notably, the researcher’s hardware appears to use fairly expensive Optitrack cameras for the system rather than the buggy Oculus Sensor tracking system the company used for the consumer Rift.
UploadVR
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What made the VR 820 so compelling was that it had 6-DoF tracking as well as integrated compute (Snapdragon 820) which was on par with all the latest flagship phones. It even had support for eye tracking, which we now know was through a partnership with none other than SMI.
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Where things changed was when developers got their hands on it. An unnamed Japanese developer used the dual cameras to do hand-tracking without the Vive’s motion controllers, though this comes with obvious limitations — what do you do when your hands aren’t in your camera’s field of vision? While many news sites are reporting on this as a dedicated hand-tracking feature, it’s time to clarify a little bit: it’s not.
Road to VR
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Today at the the World Conference on VR Industry in China, HTC announced plans to bring hand & finger tracking to Vive Pro via the headset’s front-facing cameras. HTC also indicates that the capability can track individual finger movements too.
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Oculus Video Shows Advanced Hand Tracking Gloves via @UploadVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 25, 2017. virtual reality augmented reality vr ar
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HTC reveals native hand/finger tracking for Vive Pro alongside 6DoF functionality for Vive Focus. HTC revealed the devices exciting tracking capabilities during their time at last weeks 2018 World Conference on VR Industry in Nanchang, China.
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GDC and MWC are just around the corner, and Qualcomm is diving head-first into virtual reality with a new dev-kit and hand-tracking technology. The chipmaker may be best known for its smartphone processors, but that same silicon is just as much at home in head-mounted displays.
UploadVR
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The self-contained virtual reality headset makes use of Intel’s vision technologies to create a wireless, inside-out positionally tracked headset. Let There Be Hands. II’s built in RealSense hand-tracking. Tracking and Performance .
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Comments made by Oculus CTO John Carmack at Oculus Connect 5 and Twitter suggest that the upcoming Oculus Rift S cameras could support finger tracking. So given the enormous relative power of a PC, shouldn’t Rift S be capable of finger tracking?
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