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Hands-On: Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Feels Great, But It’s Not Perfect

VRScout

Quest hand tracking is perfect for slower experiences with light interaction. During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.1.9): Apple Vision Pro launches on 2/2, Qualcomm announces new chipset for Samsung headset, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The headset (that you see in the above picture) is quite slick and features pancake lenses, eye tracking by Tobii, integrated audio, and Wi-Fi 6/6E/7. More info (Quest 3 on Steam Survey) More info (Me wondering why the Quest 2 is losing shares) Will hand-tracking substitute controllers?

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Top 5 Use Cases For Hand Eye Tracking Technology

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In the place of clunky plastic controllers and remotes, we’re seeing the rise of hand and eye tracking solutions, allowing users to move more freely throughout the digital world. XR motion tracking could even be a way for professionals in the athletic and sporting industry to detect issues with form and posture for each athlete.

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MR Headsets Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Challenges: Matching real environments’ spatial data with virtual content that is streamed right in front of the user’s eyes in MR headsets requires sophisticated tracking and mapping technologies to accurately align virtual content with the physical world. Matt Tullis Hand tracking is now an essential element of the MR experience.

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HoloLens 2.0 to Put a Custom A.I. Chip at the Heart of Its On-board Processor

Road to VR

Microsoft has undoubtedly been working on the next version of HoloLens, the company’s AR headset, but now we know a little more about what’s going into the next iteration: a Microsoft-built custom AI chip designed to carry out low-latency computer vision tasks. image courtesy Microsoft.

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Meta’s ‘Body Tracking’ API For Quest Is Just A Legless Estimate

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This was widely shared – leading to many believing Quest just got body tracking support – but both the name of the API and the illustration are misleading. Meta’s Hand Tracking API provides the actual position of your hands & fingers, tracked by the outwards-facing cameras.

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How to choose an LBVR product?

The Ghost Howls

The Void parks provide physical feedback with physical walls built, special effects made with fans, mist machines, and heat lamps, as well as prop guns and torches and other items to be used. Image Credit: TripAdvisor, Zero Latency Madrid. Zero Latency was the first to provide such experience. Image Credit: The Void.

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