VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Native hand tracking, PC/standalone hybrid functionality, and new games confirmed for the Oculus platform. Oculus Quest hand tracking – One of the most exciting reveals made during this years developer conference, Oculus has announced that native hand and finger tracking will be available on the Oculus Quest in early 2020.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

You’ll be able to buy direct from Meta alongside the usual retail partners, which in the US includes Amazon, Best Buy, Target and Walmart. As previous leaks suggested, Meta is releasing two variants of Quest 3S, a 128GB model priced at $300 and a 256GB model for $400, launching on October 15th.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the US, you’ll be able to find Quest 3 online through Meta as well as its official partners, including Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. Quest 3 is officially now available for pre-order, with shipping slated to start on October 10th, 2023. Here are those prices in GBP, EUR, and JPY: £479.99 GBP (128GB), £619.99

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DECEMBER 24, 2022

Bigscreen now supports watching with friends using streaming services like Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Twitch, and YouTube. ” Each person will need subscriptions for Disney+ or Amazon Prime, and the email noted “ content you have access to may vary by region. People in a room may see a different selection of films.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2024

Buy on Amazon ($25) Lens Cleaning Pen Image courtesy CNBEYOUNG Apple hasn’t published a guide yet on exactly how to clean your Vision Pro. You can nab one for as low as $7 on Amazon, or a whole set with multiple brushes, wipes, carrying cases, the works. Available in clear, and black, red, blue, white, and grey.

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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. ” This is especially useful for using voice commands with hand-tracking, since there’s no menu button that you can easily double-tap.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking! A demo made by the creator of Holoception, that mixes portals and hands tracking. And this time, you will finally be able to download one of them. More info Buy it now!

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. This will include query based voice interactions for a new level of digital agency, and even the ability to interact with and control digital environments through conversation.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. The Vive Ultimate Tracker is like a Vive Tracker, but it tracks its pose using two onboard cameras, not requiring any SteamVR base station. THREE TO ONE.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

With no mention of headset use on Amazon, the product that now functions as my office for VR and mixed reality was listed as " mobile standing desk, pneumatic height adjustable laptop desk, mobile laptop desk with wheels, height adjustable from 29.5" This is why the most significant accessory I purchased in 2024 is a mobile desk.

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

This week's biggest hardware story is the Quest 3S launch , which became the top-selling gaming device on Amazon. We'll bring you our full review soon but in the meantime, we assessed its hand tracking quality compared to Quest 3.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

If you want to read all his insights, you can buy his book on Amazon, which has very positive reviews. DeoVR has just announced two interesting pieces of news: the popular video player now supports hands tracking and it has also been ported to Pico. Learn more (DeoVR on Pico Store) Learn more (DeoVR supports hands tracking).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It features nice graphics, an interesting story, and a strong use of hand tracking through which you can cast spells. Imagine something like this running on an AR headset… Learn more News from partners (and friends) Discover Drakheir Drakheir is an indie Magic Adventure Roguelite VR game. Learn more Volumetrics secure $1.1M

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Tracking: Inside-out tracking and hand tracking. Controllers: Two wireless hand-held controllers. Buy on Amazon or directly from Oculus. Use case: Half-Life: Alyx and other games that require finger tracking. Price : $1, 400 for full kit on Amazon or $900 directly from HTC. Price: $300.

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2017

The strategy to slash Touch pricing by 50% when they’ve only just begun making their way into the hands of consumers is a bold move. You can head on over to Amazon to pick up a Rift + Touch bundle , the Rift , or just Touch controllers. Not much of a consolation, but it’s something.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Of course, that is until they release a modular faceplate capable of hand-tracking. That beings, said several other sources have reported issues with the headsets inside-out tracking, reporting inconsistencies with performance if the playspace is not extremely well-lit. Calling it now. Feature Image Credit: HTC.

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MARCH 6, 2023

It supports YouTube, Disney+, Amazon Prime, movie rentals, and its own TV channels for shows like Rick & Morty. The new avatars now have necks and estimated arms (no current VR headset has built-in arm tracking). The company plans to add support for hand tracking and eye tracking later this year for the new avatar system.

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MAY 9, 2023

A new app uses your smartphone camera to track your body and it can send the data to the standalone VRChat Quest app. Existing VR systems focus on head and hand tracking, though some VRChat enthusiasts use extra hardware to add body tracking.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2019

retail partners include Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and Microsoft, and will be available for purchase both online and in stores. Tracking : Oculus Insight tracking technology requires no external sensors or base stations for full 6DOF head and hand-tracking. Accomplished by five embedded tracking sensors.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Instead a ‘look-and-tap’ system relying on eye and hand-tracking is the core input method, and by all accounts ( including mine ) it works very well. Signals from Amazon suggest Quest 2 may have outsold Quest 3 nearly 3:1, if not more. 10 years later, Apple is finally about to launch its first headset.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 18, 2023

In December, Ammaar Reshi created and sold a children’s book that he wrote using Chat GPT and physically published via Amazon Kindle Publishing in an exceedingly short time period. The service also allows users to generate content such as stories and articles. Examples, such as Reshi’s project and the surge of DALL.E

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The company’s first foray into a worldwide release began on March 28 when it began shipping its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset via its own store and third party vendors such as Best Buy and Amazon. Oculus Touch — the company’s new, $200, hand-tracked controller platform — is slated to release on December 6.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

McQuire points to the fact that this follows similar moves made by Amazon Web Services over the past 12 months, and sees it as a clear statement of intent at gaining developer mindshare against Google ahead of its own developer event, Google I/O which also happens this week. The whole world is becoming a computer Click To Tweet.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It will also be available via Amazon and through select retailers in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan and France. Quest 3 will continue to support controller-free hand tracking as an input option, but the headset will also ship with new Touch Plus controllers as well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses. Amazon has just announced that it is going to release Amazon Echo Frames, the first official smartglasses by the e-commerce giant. I have already written one mega-roundup post of that event, so I will just super-briefly summarize it again here (I’m tired summarizing the Connect! :O).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Some will also feature tracked controllers. Nu Eyes AR glasses.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Manomotion Manomotion is a hand tracking and gesture control SDK for smartphones. The top 3 experiences will win Amazon Gift cards. You do not need any dedicated hardware to experiment around with this SDK. If you already have some prior knowledge of AR Development then this group is a must join for you.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It works connected to a phone, and while it doesn’t have any kind of tracking embedded, for tasks like watching Netflix it can be very useful (Thanks David for the tip); Amazon has announced the Echo Frames, its smart glasses that let you speak with Alexa. What a weird decision…). Other relevant news. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead. Magic Leap is not going to last long, at least in the consumer space (he says): 2 billion are not enough to build such kind of product, it would have needed at least 10B to compete with Apple. for a price around $600.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Meta Quest Pro has numerous optional accessories from Amazon, the Meta online store, and other vendors. However, the company has announced its plans to update the hand-tracking and eye-tracking capabilities in the Pro going forward. Meta ultimately scrapped this feature.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

New Amazon Prime Video App With Downloads Amazon launched an all-new Prime Video Quest app that supports passthrough and downloads. New Amazon Prime Video Quest App Supports Downloads Amazon just launched an all-new Prime Video Quest app that supports downloads for offline viewing.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

And not only online on Oculus website, but also on Amazon and Best Buy supermarkets : before the conference, lots of people started posting on Reddit the pictures of the Go being already inside Best Buy shopping centers. Markerless full body tracking : Oculus is now able to track completely your body using only the RGB camera of a phone.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This is a framework that introduces many facilities for applications employing hands tracking: for instance, it makes sure that the hands of the user adapt dynamically to the shape of the object they are holding. The previous one went great on Amazon, and I’m sure this will be a great read, too. Learn more.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

According to reports, the upcoming Samsung XR headset will feature a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a Time of Flight (ToF) sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking. At the event, AWS collaborated with Proto Holograms to showcase a new system powered by Amazon Bedrock.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Quest 3 and Pro can now use hand-tracking and controllers simultaneously , Meta's looking at neural wristbands , while Sony confirmed PC support is coming for PSVR 2. Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery VR on Steam can be claimed as a free game for Amazon Prime members until February 28. The Light Brigade is currently 30% off.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Iribe will lead the PC side, while Jon Thomason, who was formerly VP of Engineering at Qualcomm for five years and then VP of Mobile Shipping at Amazon before joining Oculus as Head of Software in August of this year, will head up the mobile division. We loved them in our review.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Both tools offer virtual reality experiences, with powerful graphics and immersive solutions like hand tracking. You can purchase them directly through the Meta website or through a partner retailer, such as Amazon. Both solutions feature hand-tracking capabilities for hands-free functionality.

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