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MARCH 20, 2024

While Apple Vision Pro validated much of what Meta (formerly Facebook) did in VR over the last decade, the headset also echoes work under Google's umbrella at Job Simulator development studio Owlchemy Labs. Owlchemy Labs has a prominent history when it comes to hand-tracking controls.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Thomas has significantly improved the app's netcode to minimize jitter and hitches, increased the refresh rate to 96Hz, implemented HDR (High Dynamic Range) display output, and added support for passing Vision Pro's hand tracking through to SteamVR Skeletal Input. You can download ALVR from TestFlight now.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Well, you will be able to create ever more realistic and accurate hand tracking interactions. The Interaction Builder already includes a wide range of interaction primitives that you can use to enhance your hand-tracking projects. We cannot wait to see all your amazing hand-tracking projects created with Interhaptics.

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Instead, Owlchemy focused on two key facts: the game will be multiplayer and support hand tracking. A shining example of that is the studio’s most well-known title, Job Simulator. Around when Job Simulator released, the Owlchemy team was trying to crack the design code for an emerging technology: VR motion controllers.

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JULY 23, 2023

Owlchemy Labs announced this week that both Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator are now available on Pico headsets. Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator remain two of the most popular titles available on VR headsets. Get ready to [JOB] and [RELAX] as Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator are available now in China!

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AUGUST 23, 2022

Owlchemy Labs’ next VR project will feature multiplayer and hand tracking support. Owlchemy Labs is a veteran VR studio and one of the industry’s best developers , known for some huge titles such as Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator and, most recently, Cosmonious High.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio, announced it’s bringing the chart-topping VR games Job Simulator (2016) and its sequel Vacation Simulator (2019) to Apple Vision Pro. Whatever the case, it’s clear the studio is continuing its mission to release its most popular VR games on every headset possible.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

update earlier this year, Unity is building upon its work with version 2.4.0 , including notable enhancements to the service’s eye and hand-tracking developer features. The firm included deep eye and hand-tracking considerations as part of the 2.3 Following a landmark 2.3 Unity XRI version 2.4.0 Building Upon XRI 2.3

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NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Vacation Simulator becomes Owlchemy's second platinum-selling game, and it's also received a Quest 3 update. Vacation Simulator marks the studio's second game to sell one million units, after Job Simulator reached this milestone in 2020. At Gamescom tonight, the… UploadVR Harry Baker

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Founded in 2010, Leap Motion would release its initial product (today called the ‘ Leap Motion Controller ‘) in 2012, a desktop-focused peripheral which offered touchless hand-tracking. However, one place in VR still seems like a potential sweet spot for Leap Motion’s hand-tracking tech: mobile.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Microsoft Flight Simulator is now compatible with VR headsets : not only the HP Reverb G2 as initially teased but all the headsets that are compatible with OpenXR , so basically all the most famous devices. Top news of the week. Image by HP). Of course, no. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 22, 2023

This Monday, hand-tracking and haptics hardware manufacturer Ultraleap partnered with BrightSign to distribute its TouchFree solution across XC5 media players to enhance digital signage communications and marketing opportunities. More on Ultraleap The firm is developing a range of hand-tracking and haptic technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.

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VRScout

AUGUST 25, 2020

Better known by his online handle “Pushmatrix”, Beauchamp has spent the past year developing some truly bizarre hand-tracking experiences for the Oculus Quest, from a physics-driven haircutting simulator and miniature Beat Saber experience to VR Jenga and virtual Chia Pet. Image Credit: Daniel Beauchamp.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2023

Eye and hand-tracking technology is quickly becoming crucial to the extended reality experience. As we continue our journey into the digital world, here are some main reasons companies investing in XR should consider implementing eye and hand-tracking tools.

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XROM

JUNE 2, 2023

The Leap Motion Controller 2 is the ideal hardware for experiencing Ultraleap’s world-class hand tracking. Hand tracking is a vital component for our customers as it empowers them to interact seamlessly with digital content, enabling faster and more precise manipulation of virtual objects.

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JULY 11, 2022

Table of Tales — a PSVR exclusive at launch — simulates a tabletop RPG in VR, not dissimilar to something like Demeo. Interestingly, the description on the Quest store confirms that this release will support hand tracking — “ Use controllers or your hands to interact with the figurines and cards.”

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JULY 11, 2023

Tinkerers got Apple's visionOS simulator for Mac streaming to Quest Pro as VR. In late June Apple released the SDK for visionOS, the operating system of Vision Pro, alongside a visionOS simulator for developers to test their apps on their Mac. I got Apple's visionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to a Meta Quest using ALVR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

Eye and hand tracking solutions are emerging as a valuable alternative to old-fashioned control mechanisms. By tracking the natural movement of our eyes and hands, these tools can place us straight in the heart of an immersive experience. Improved hand and eye tracking can bring people closer together, wherever they are.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

Holovis’ press release describes some of its interactivity achieved via hand tracking – “riders could explore things in the cab, such as change the radio station, scroll through the news and pick up elements that fall from the glove box as it opens during the first inversion”. image courtesy Holovis. image courtesy Holovis.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

More info (How Puzzling Places was ported to the Apple Vision Pro) New apps get released to the Vision Pro every week : Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator have been announced for it (I teased this on my blog a few weeks ago). They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2024

But Apple says it built Vision Pro’s input system to reveal as little information about the user as possible, so it doesn’t report the pose or position of the user’s hands by default. Developers can also experiment with WebXR and the transient-pointer mode using the VisionOS simulator.

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Road to VR

APRIL 1, 2021

Hand Physics Lab is all about hand-tracking, and this over 80-level game aims to throw you head first into a whimsical series of seemingly simple tasks. Quest can offer mixed results when it comes to hand-tracking fidelity though, so if you’re not careful, it can be extremely frustrating for all the wrong reasons.

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MAY 7, 2017

With the inclusion of accurate hand tracking, detailed room scale movement, and a strong sense of presence from most modern VR experiences, devices such as the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have a great ability to trick our minds into thinking we are in a completely different place. In fact, it can simulate many actual actions too.

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Road to VR

JULY 26, 2023

For example, in flight simulation  use cases, you can display a virtual flight scenario outside the cockpit, while simultaneously showing the real-life cockpit and the physical controls to the user. Hand Tracking and Eye Tracking Hand tracking  allows you to interact in virtual and mixed reality environments without separate controllers.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2020

A high-end HMD perfect for safety-critical training simulations. For the VR training to be effective, astronauts need to be able to read all the displays simultaneously while operating the simulated aircraft with their hands or controllers. We have come a long way. Better, lighter, untethered HMDs: Check.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It will explore new interactive social experiences "by focusing on hand tracking and voice communication with both friends and NPCs." Google’s Most Experienced VR Studio Changes Leadership Andrew Eiche is taking over Job Simulator studio Owlchemy Labs. In 2017, Google acquired Owlchemy Labs.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A WebXR experiment from Brielle Garcia simulates the Power Glove as input for a game on the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Now, with Garcia's experiment, the Power Glove is simulated in a fully immersive website. Hand tracking is fully supported and the devices are fast enough to even run emulators in the browser."

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Senso is a new virtual reality glove input device that offers per-finger haptic feedback and the ability to simulate differences in temperature – all tracked via a camera-less IMU-based system. As ever, we’ll remain open minded until we’ve had our hands in the Senso gloves.

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MAY 15, 2022

Could such a little team be what helped Little Cities expertly deliver on a VR-first approach to a city simulator game? ” Adapting the simulation language in this way – away from stats and notifications, focusing on a visual-led approach – avoids overwhelming the player with complex menus, budgeting, finance options and the like.

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Cats and VR

JULY 17, 2017

Natural input through full hand tracking is inseparable and fundamental to the future of VR/AR, and Leap Motion is a principal driver of its widespread adoption,” said Michael Buckwald, CEO and Co-founder of Leap Motion. As part of the funding round, Lawrence Unrein, Global Head of J.P.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

Daniel is an XR professional that has become very famous this year for his mindblowing experiments with the hands tracking of the Oculus Quest , where every prototype of his is focused on an interaction that is so crazy that most of the time you couldn’t think about it before. Networked hand tracking!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 18, 2023

People at Vrgineers made me try their headset with a flight simulator software. It was not Microsoft’s one, but a professional simulator for pilots. Plus this solution should be able to work also with the hand close to real objects (e.g. And that’s it!

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