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Leading Hand-tracking Company Ultraleap Raises $82 Million Investment

Road to VR

Ultraleap, a leading company focused on hand-tracking interfaces, this week announced it has secured a £60 million (~$82 million) Series D investment, with the goal of expanding its hand-tracking and mid-air haptic tech in the XR space and beyond.

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AR and VR Content Creation Platform Fectar Integrates Ultraleap Hand Tracking

ARPost

Focused on creating AR and VR spaces for education, training, onboarding, events, and more, and aimed at non-technical users, the company provides a cross-platform, no-code AR/VR building tool. They don’t need to know how to code to create VR apps and tools, including training programs.

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Most Popular XR Hand and Eye Tracking Reviews 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The question is, which innovative tools are offering the best tracking experience in the XR environment today? Here are some of our most popular hand and eye tracking tools to guide your purchasing choices. The powerful eye tracking tools can even convey blinking and natural eye movements in avatars , for better collaboration.

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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

TechCrunch VR

Ultrahaptics went on to raise $23 million, begin to interest car companies , and later absorb the much-hyped Leap Motion, which, it turns out, was a match made in heaven, by uniting both hand tracking and mid-air haptics. So Ultraleap is already working with DS Automobiles and Hosiden on new mid-air haptics experiences.

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HTC Plans to Bring Hand & Finger Tracking to Vive Pro

Road to VR

Back in April HTC launched new tools to help developers take advantage of the Vive Pro’s largely unused front-facing cameras. HTC says that developer tools for the new feature will be made available soon to registered Viveport developers. HTC also indicates that the capability can track individual finger movements too.

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Exclusive: Designing Single-handed Shortcuts for VR & AR

Road to VR

However, the team at Leap Motion has also investigated more exotic and exciting interface paradigms from arm HUDs and digital wearables, to deployable widgets containing buttons, sliders, and even 3D trackballs and color pickers. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. It’s well defined.

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SenseGlove review: a nice DK1 for force-feedback in VR

The Ghost Howls

SenseGlove is an exoskeleton for your hands that is able to provide you haptics sensations. I expected some sorts of runtime, configuration panel, hardware diagnostic tool, etc… instead, there is nothing. Haptics quality. What is SenseGlove? As you can see, the hardware setup is not plug and play.

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