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Quest’s Hand-tracking is Making It Possible to Learn Basic Sign Language in VR

Road to VR

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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TapID Uses Bone Conduction To Deliver A Better Typing Experience In VR

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To bring a more organic and natural typing experience into VR, a group of researchers from the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich , Switzerland have developed a set of wristbands called TapID that—when combined with hand tracking—allows you to “feel” the keys of your virtual keyboard as you type.

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CREAL Reveals Its First Light-field AR & VR Headset Prototypes

Road to VR

Switzerland-based CREAL, which is developing a light-field display, has revealed its first prototype AR and VR headsets. ” The Creal AR headset prototype is tethered and uses an Intel RealSense sensor for 6DOF tracking and Ultraleap for hand-tracking.

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Send HTC Your Idea for a Vive Accessory and Win a Free HTC Vive

Road to VR

The Vive’s Lighthouse tracking system is an impressive piece of tech, considering it boasts sub-millimeter, 3D room-scale positional tracking for a VR headset and hand controllers using lasers. But haven’t you ever wished the Vive controllers could be used for more than just hand tracking?

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.25): Quest 2 Pro leaked, Facebook to change its name, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The headset takes inspiration from the Varjo VR-3 premium VR headset and removes its famous retina-resolution display and also hands tracking via Ultraleap, making it become a VR headset more similar to the other ones in the market. Aero still features an impressive resolution and pixel density, and also integrated eye-tracking.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

At the time of writing they are: United States Canada Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Republic of Ireland Spain Sweden Switzerland UK Australia Japan New Zealand Taiwan. If you a content provider, can your partner with Oculus to provide your business applications to companies?

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Hand and Eye-Tracking: XR Today Expert Round Table

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XR Today: Can you explain your hand and eye tracking solutions, and how they differ from others? Varjo’s XR-3 and VR-3 headsets were the first VR and XR headsets to incorporate Ultraleap’s highly accurate 5th-gen Gemini hand tracking , which features improved initialization, pose accuracy, and occlusion handling than ever before.