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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. But, most importantly, now the Quest features hands tracking. If you update the Quest until its latest runtime, you can now activate hands tracking in its experimental features. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs.

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Qualcomm VR HMD gets Snapdragon 835, Leap Motion hand-tracking

Slashgear

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. … Continue reading.

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Update: Fitness-focused ‘HTC Vive Air’ Is Just a Concept

Road to VR

The innovative lightweight structure allows users to forget the presence of the head-mounted display to focus on virtual content. The headset is undoubtedly very Quest-like in overall appearance, offering up four camera sensors for room-scale tracking and possibly also hand tracking.

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HTC VIVE Opens XR Elite Steam Bundle Sales

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

HTC VIVE Hand-Tracking Tackles Low Light Issues Furthermore, HTC VIVE updated current and potential headset customers that it had improved its hand-tracking performance. One of the key upgrades to the platform includes enhanced reliability in adverse lighting conditions.

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AR Technology Meets Music At SXSW 2022

VRScout

Individuals lucky enough to get a slot into the show were shuffled into a small theater where everyone was given an older model head-mounted display powered by Samsung mobile devices. Attendees used hand-tracking to shoot energy blasts out from their bare hands. Credit: VRScout.

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Most Popular Spatial Audio Reviews 2022

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The Mesh platform is a comprehensive space where developers can explore everything from eye and gesture tracking functionality to facial expressions and spatial audio. Mesh from Microsoft provides companies and innovators with multi-device support for all kinds of head-mounted displays, VR headsets, desktops and more.

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Intel’s Project Alloy Demonstrates “Merged Reality”

VRScout

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. The headset has an inside out tracking system enabled by Intel’s amazing RealSense technology. It is so precise that it tracks down to individual finger movements.