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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 company calls it a “step-function improvement in tracking continuity.” – – — – – Meta says the hand-tracking 2.0
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.
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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. Hand Physics Lab.
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.
VRScout
DECEMBER 6, 2021
A new firmware update introduces six predefined hand gestures and opens up quality-of-life opportunities. One of the VIVE Focus 3’s most exciting features is the AI-powered hand-tracking. The post HTC Improves Hand Tracking On The VIVE Focus 3 appeared first on VRScout.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Oculus announced today that hand-tracking on Quest is rolling out starting today with basic functionality. A hand-tracking SDK will be made available next week, giving developers the ability to create third-party applications which use the new feature.
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.
Road to VR
MAY 3, 2018
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. ” Footage which appeared to show the hand-tracking in action (above) also appeared to show detection of snapping gestures.
Road to VR
JUNE 23, 2020
Pimax has announced that both eye and hand tracking modules, both of which were included as stretch goals in its original 2017 Pimax “8K” headset Kickstarter, are shipping out to backers soon. News Pimax pimax pimax 8k pimax eye-tracking pimax hand tracking pimax modules
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.
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. Shredding an air guitar never felt so good.
Road to VR
JUNE 10, 2020
Cédric Girardin, an apprentice at the Switzerland-based university’s Computer Perception and Virtual Reality research group ( cpvrLab ), created a basic Quest app that can recognize and teach users up to 23 hand signs from the German fingerspelling alphabet.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
A proof-of-concept shows how hand tracking technology is bringing new possibilities to VR gaming. He’s also an avid VR developer working on some of the most unique projects for the Oculus Quest using the headsets’ newly-implemented hand tracking functionality.
Road to VR
MARCH 26, 2021
Both Oculus Quest and Quest 2 have the ability to track your hands , but precious few games have integrated the tech. Now, indie developer Dennys Kuhnert and Holonautic are getting ready to release a virtual smorgasbord of hand-tracking-based puzzles and tasks.
Road to VR
APRIL 27, 2020
A prototype from Facebook Reality Labs researchers demonstrates a novel method for text input with controllerless hand-tracking. The system treats the hands and fingers as a sort of predictive keyboard which uses pinching gestures to select groups of letters.
Road to VR
MAY 6, 2020
Controller-less hand-tracking (like what’s currently available as an experimental feature on Quest) has a handful of advantages over using controllers, like convenience and intuitiveness. SEE ALSO Three Totally Creative Uses of Quest Hand-tracking.
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