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. Hand Physics Lab is available free on Oculus Quest via SideQuest.

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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. Like an old-school air guitar, players shred their virtual instrument using their bare hands.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Zuckerburg reveals hand and finger tracking without the need for additional hardware. Facebook’s Oculus Connect 6 kicked off this morning with a slew of big reveals for the Oculus Quest standalone headset, one of the biggest being the reveal of hand and finger tracking. Image Credit: Facebook.

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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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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. SEE ALSO Three Totally Creative Uses of Quest Hand-tracking.

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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. Vive Hand Tracking SDK.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A childhood fantasy brought to life on SteamVR and Oculus headsets. 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. Image Credit: Miru Studio VR.

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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. Image Credit: Danielle Beauchamp.

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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. . Image Credit: Oculus.

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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. Image Credit: Nreal).

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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. Enable Oculus Quest Hand-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! It is a step by step guide that will make you a hands-tracking-SDK master!

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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. This week the company says Quest hand-tracking will be rolling out as a full-fledged feature, with third-party hand-tracking apps beginning to launch next week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The Oculus Quest is getting lots of cool updates in these weeks , and after the Oculus Link that lets you use the Quest as a PC VR headset, now we have also the possibility to use our bare hands to control the UI of the device. But how can you enable or disable hands tracking on Quest? Do you like video tutorials?

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2021

The 3D puzzler Cubism will be updated this Wednesday, March 17th, to support controller-less hand-tracking. This Wednesday, March 17th, Cubism will get a free update which will allow the game to be played entirely with your hands on Quest and Quest 2 (controllers will of course still work too).

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2023

10 years after the launch of Leap Motion—which garnered praise for offering some of the best hand-tracking in the industry—the company has announced a next-generation version of the device which now supports standalone XR headsets in addition to Windows and MacOS.

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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. This informed most of the design decisions regarding hand input.

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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. 2020 color space for Oculus Quest, and Rec.709

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Oculus brought controllerless hand-tracking to Oculus Quest as an experimental feature back in December , and while it’s useful for navigating around the headset’s menus when you don’t want to pick up the controllers, developers have begun prototyping more creative uses for the tech.

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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 ‘re-architected computer vision and machine learning approach’ is said to specifically improve reliability for overlapping or fast moving hands and specific gestures. With the 1.0 With the 2.0

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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. Ultraleap claims to have the “fastest, most accurate, and most robust hand tracking.”

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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. You can currently wishlist the game here.

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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. As interesting and useful those use cases may be, we’re still very much in the infancy of hand tracking and its potential uses for virtual reality.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta Platforms unveiled last week the latest iteration of its hand-tracking technologies as a demo for developers, allowing users to explore virtual worlds with their hands rather than physical controllers. Modular systems for adjusting hand-tracking functions such as pose recognition and velocity tracking.

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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. However, common VR game actions like shooting and moving are difficult to do with hand-gestures alone. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Unplugged is like Guitar Hero, although instead of picking up a dedicated peripheral and jamming away, it relies on Quest’s native hand-tracking to let you shred on an air guitar without controllers. Unplugged Details: Available On: Oculus Quest (coming soon to PC VR). Two hands required. Real crouch required.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus rolled out hand-tracking on Oculus Quest last week as an experimental feature, but the company says it’s waiting on feedback before it commits to bringing the capability to its latest PC headset, the Rift S. And now Oculus has rolled out controller-free hand-tracking as an experimental feature on Quest.

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Road to VR

JUNE 10, 2020

There’s no comprehensive app out there yet for learning sign language in VR, however a student at the computer science department of the Bern University of Applied Science is using Oculus Quest’s native hand-tracking to see just how close we might get to achieving that goal with today’s tech.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This past December, Oculus introduced native hand-tracking functionality for the Oculus Quest, offering users the chance to navigate the Oculus Home interface with their bare hands as opposed to the Touch controllers. This is where hand-tracking comes in. VIRTUALPIANO.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Reportedly developed under the code name “Hue,” Protocol maintains it will also ship without motion controllers, instead relying primarily on its built-in hand-tracking to control apps and casual VR games. HTC also released and new hype video on its Instagram , showing a quick flash of Flow’s hardware.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Oculus Connect 6 is starting today, and ahead of the festivities Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a video showing off some pretty nuanced hand interaction, something he says will be apart of his talk today. Now, we know that Quest will soon include optical hand-tracking.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Hand Tracking 2.0 is coming to the original Oculus Quest in October. The update arrived on Quest 2 in May , bringing dramatic improvements to using your hands without controllers. It makes Hand Tracking much more practical to use, and enables new actions like clapping and counting on fingers.

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JULY 25, 2017

Earlier this year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a new form of input being developed over at Oculus: hand tracking gloves. An unlisted Oculus video posted last week, unearthed by Reddit , shows the gloves in action.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

Tuesday, April 7, saw VIVE’s second weekly developer live stream, “Build for Tomorrow – VIVE Hand Tracking SDK.”. The talk, presented by HTC’s senior developer Dario Laverde, focused on how developers can integrate hand tracking into their applications. Hand Tracking in VR Technology – It’s Come a Long Way.

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JULY 29, 2022

A new update is available for Myst which adds hand tracking support and other requested features. Players can now use hand tracking for the entire Myst experience from start to finish on Quest with gestures for smooth locomotion and other interactions. You can read more in our full review.

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2020

Oculus Quest hand-tracking turns one apartment into an XR playground. Remember that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character cycles through a bunch of important police data by swiping his hands across a massive holographic display? 02 Transform any surface into a giant touch screen.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It makes changes to the hand tracking UX, adds support for iPhone-captured spatial videos, improves the microphone quality, adds support for multiple mixed reality room setups, improves multitasking, improves Quest Link, adds Facebook live streaming and YouTube Live Chat, and adds support for gamepads on the web.

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