The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX.

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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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VRGames

JANUARY 14, 2023

Unity is continuing to grow their XR platform by releasing a new package that allows developers to add hand tracking as an input without using headset-specific SDKs. This means users can now interact with things within the virtual environment using natural gestures.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This week, hand-tracking market leader SpectreXR made various strides in innovating in XR input with various partnerships that aim to elevate immersion for XR training applications and user experiences. They’ve built realistic hand interactions for OctoXR that complement Ultraleap’s hand tracking perfectly.

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Road to VR

JULY 26, 2023

Mixed Reality Masking With mixed reality masking, you can use any virtual object in your scene (plane, cube or complex mesh) to act as a “window” into the real world. This is especially useful if you want to bring real-world elements, such as instruments or controller devices into the virtual environment through one or many “windows”.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Switch Between Controller-tracking and Hand-tracking For the most part, Quest 3 is pretty good about understanding that setting your controllers on a flat surface means you want to start using hand-tracking. Here’s a breakdown of tips and tricks you’ll definitely want to know.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 5, 2022

The PSVR 2 device will include ground-breaking eye-tracking navigation that allows users to move within a virtual environment and navigate spatial menus without needing a handheld controller. Sony Filles Hand-Tracking Technology. An illustration detailing Sony’s patented hand-tracking tech PHOTO: Sony.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Hand-tracking is a logical affordance for AR based spatial computing and no doubt some experiences will work well with that design philosophy. There is a comfort in understanding the topological landscape of a controller and a physical touchpoint within the virtual environments themselves.

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Upload VR

APRIL 2, 2024

Personas are Apple's realistic virtual avatars in visionOS, driven in real-time by the headset's eye, face, and hand tracking sensors. The new Spatial Personas on the other hand are 3D. They appear in your space, either passthrough or virtual environment, with shared spatial context.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It appears as though the Oculus Quest 2 cameras have difficulty tracking the controllers in brightly-lit environments; the same goes for Oculus Quest hand-tracking. Put simply, the more shade, the better the headset and controller tracking. Put simply, the more shade, the better the headset and controller tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 18, 2023

It was interesting that the SDK could not only track his hand but also segment it to show it inside the virtual application. It was a clear example of augmented virtuality, where a real element (the hand) was shown inside a virtual environment (the one of the game). And that’s it!

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2021

There are four cameras located at the front edges of the headset, offering 6DoF inside-out tracking. These cameras are also used to track your motion controllers, which resemble Oculus Touch controllers. The cameras can also be used for hand-tracking if you prefer to ditch the controllers altogether. Image Credit: Pimax.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 6, 2022

At the Augmented World Expo (AWE 2022) last week, extended reality (XR) human-machine interface (HCI) technology developers TG0 showcased its button-free virtual reality (VR) controllers designed for immersive gaming and Metaverse experiences. Other firms such as HaptX create gloves to recreate user movements in immersive environments.

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VRScout

MARCH 20, 2021

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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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2023

Apple TV : both immersive sports content and traditional video content – the latter presented in virtual environments, such as a desert or the sky. Apple Books : will allow users to read in virtual reality. Fitness+ : will let users exercise while watching an instructor in VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Using a combination of sensors and receivers, eye and hand tracking solutions allow for the creation of a powerful human-personal computer interface for XR. Eye and hand tracking solutions also allow for better computing power distribution within XR environments. Photogrammetry.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 5, 2022

Comfortable VR headsets with high-quality displays allow us to step into virtual environments for longer, without feeling nauseous or overwhelmed due to issues associated with visual lag. 4. Eye and Hand Tracking. The right blend of audio and visual quality, and long-term wearability will be essential.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2021

Hand-tracking. Hand-tracking first came to the original Quest in late 2019, offering users and developers a controllerless option for input on the headset. Better yet, you can even set the passthrough view as your VR ‘background’ instead of a virtual environment. Facebook Messenger.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2021

Developers can do this by recording sound, converting it to a vibration waveform, and then bringing it inside the virtual environment to be played back by the glove. Motion Tracking. As for motion tracking, the Nova combines sensor-based finger tracking with computer vision hand tracking algorithms.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

Theme parks have been eager to add virtual reality rides to their list of attractions, but the majority of experiences are repurposed existing roller coasters, essentially offering the same ride but with a virtual environment to look at. image courtesy Holovis.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2018

To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking. The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

The product combines hand tracking with haptic feedback to give the user a more hands-on approach to interacting with the virtual environment around them.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It turns out that it has been delayed again since the company is not satisfied with the quality of the hands tracking offered by the currently-used tracking cameras. The Lynx will ship with hands tracking as the primary interaction method, so high-quality hands tracking is crucial for this headset.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2020

You have just to: Open your Settings menu in the Quest UI Head to the “Virtual Environment” tab In this tab, you can find all the environments that you can use as your Oculus Home environment. After that, you will see all the 2D elements of the Oculus Home floating around your real environment.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We’re already seeing Meta and Apple come out with mixed reality emulation tools of their own, letting developers test their apps in a simulated virtual environment, even without a headset. Luckily the answer to that is: probably not. These tools are likely to only get better and more robust in time.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 17, 2024

The Vision Pro service also allows medical learners to interact with Osso VR’s immersive learning procedures with the device’s integrated hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and voice control. However, the value of the Metaverse is clear in healthcare.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It uses hand tracking and a real piano to teach you to play songs. Waves’ are live, interactive, and social concerts in a virtual environment where you’re able to connect with the artist and other fans in an immersive way. It’s also pretty cool to see others drum entire covers using it. Attend VR Concerts.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2016

Anthony Steed is a professor in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group in the Department of Computer Science, University College London. Anthony was also the winner of the 2016 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award presented at the IEEE VR conference this year. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 14, 2023

On next-gen consoles and computer systems, the UE5 Nanite geometry system introduces a new way to render and create virtual environments. Unreal Engine 5 Nanite and Lumen The Nanite and Lumen tools are particularly compelling for VR designers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Today, manufacturing companies use VR to design prototypes of new products in scalable virtual environments. For instance, if you’re using eye and hand-tracking tools within your XR strategy, how will you ensure the data collected about individual users remains safe?

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VRScout

JULY 13, 2016

The new VR simulator designed by a team at the University of Birmingham’s Human Interface Technology (HIT) brings together a VR headset, hand-tracking gloves, a lifelike dummy and an inflatable enclosure to better prepare medics for the conditions they may face in the field.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) headsets are on a constant uphill trajectory which sees the hardware’s landscape evolve rapidly with new components, integrated software, and use cases. This is because they learn to perform a job or a skill in the virtual environment while practising the learnings and interacting with objects in the real world.

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XROM

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This capability opens up new avenues for intuitive interaction within virtual environments. Equipped with algorithmic anti-shake technology, the NOLO RING ensures accurate tracking and seamless control, enhancing the overall AR/VR experience.

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