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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.
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 17, 2021
Get your hands dirty with this week’s exciting update. The frantic food game Clash of Chefs VR just received a major update that lets you ditch your Oculus Touch controllers and cook delicious cartoon food with your own two hands.
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!
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.
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.
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. “This, along with a language model, predicts what people intended to type despite ambiguous hand motion.
Road to VR
APRIL 19, 2022
Meta today announced “major improvements” coming to Quest 2’s controllerless hand-tracking capability. The company calls it a “step-function improvement in tracking continuity.” – – — – – Meta says the hand-tracking 2.0
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. Ghost Hands. Dynamic Hand Smoothing.
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. Hand Physics Lab.
ARPost
JUNE 25, 2020
It consists of a headset and a pair of hand controllers. 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?
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.
VRScout
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Hope you’re not afraid to get your hands dirty. Earlier this week, Resolution Games announced yet another exciting feature on its way to the Quest platform: hand tracking. Mixed reality is available now as a free update to existing players with hand tracking to follow.
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. A childhood fantasy brought to life on SteamVR and Oculus headsets.
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.
VRScout
JULY 21, 2020
A wristband with four thermal sensors promises a more detailed hand tracking experience. Instead of firing webs, however, this device captures your hand movements and then transfers that data to a tethered Raspberry Pi-powered device connected to a computer.
Road to VR
AUGUST 26, 2020
Qualcomm and Ultraleap today announced a “multi-year co-operation agreement” that will bring Ultraleap’s controllerless hand-tracking tech (formerly of Leap Motion) to XR headsets based on the Snapdragon XR2 chipset.
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.
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.
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 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. Your hand tracking UX design determines how your users will experience your application. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D.
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.
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.”
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
Road to VR
MAY 18, 2020
Facebook introduced controllerless hand-tracking in beta on Oculus Quest late last year and it has remained an “experimental” feature ever since. Since late last year it’s been possible to enable hand-tracking on Quest as an experimental feature.
Road to VR
MARCH 15, 2021
The 3D puzzler Cubism will be updated this Wednesday, March 17th, to support controller-less hand-tracking. Although the game is also available on Oculus PC and Steam, those versions of the game won’t support hand-tracking.
VRScout
OCTOBER 27, 2022
There's also a bit of a surprise: experimental finger tracking on Quest 2 and Quest Pro! You can then interact with the UI using a quick “air pinch” gesture with your right hand. Hand tracking even works with Avatar Dynamics , such as any physics-driven hair.
Upload VR
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. You aim to guide shadow creatures to safety, manipulating light, walls and environments with your hands.
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.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Controllerless hand-tracking on Quest is a great convenience feature. While we still expect controllers to be the go-to for hardcore games , there’s definitely opportunity for casual and novel games and experiences to prosper with hand-tracking. Thrown Hand.
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 . Hand Tracking – a Critical Element for XR Technology.
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.
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.
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! Ultraleap Gemini tracking. Very weird hand poses (e.g.
VRScout
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Navigate the Quest Home interface and first-party Oculus apps with your bare hands. Originally revealed during Oculus Connect 6 this past September, native hand tracking for Oculus Quest headsets is scheduled to begin rolling out this week as part of software update v12. .
Road to VR
JULY 7, 2020
Developers often need to spend time hand animating the hand model so that it appears to hold each object in a realistic way. At minimum you need one custom hand-pose for every uniquely shaped object in a given game. SEE ALSO Three Totally Creative Uses of Quest Hand-tracking.
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.
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