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Most Innovative XR Hand and Eye Tracking Vendors to Watch in 2022

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Hand and eye tracking tools, capable of sensing the movements, gestures, and gaze of a user, can take XR experiences to a new level. Innovators in the world of Mixed Reality, Microsoft relies heavily on concepts like hand and eye tracking to help users combine the physical and digital worlds.

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All you need to know about the leaked Valve VR headset: is Half-Life 3/2 coming?

The Ghost Howls

If it has to be cheap to compete with Oculus, I guess that audio will be normal… Eye Tracking. There are no signs of eye tracking in this headset. But someone spotted a patent by Valve where eye tracking sensors were hidden inside the lens tubes themselves and so are not visible.

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VRChat Now Has Beta Support For Hand Tracking On PC

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Previously it was possible to use hand tracking to emulate Valve Index controllers on PC, but this didn't allow for full finger articulation. 0:00 / 1:21 1× VRChat doesn't use OpenXR yet, so to use hand tracking on PC you'll need software that supports forwarding hand tracking to SteamVR Skeletal Input.

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How to fix Vive controllers not working inside SteamVR games

The Ghost Howls

I bought my Vive to experiment with 7Invensun eye tracking and I was really enthusiast about trying eye-tracked UX. Leap Motion driver and runtime. Older Apple Cinema displays with devices attached through USB. So, choose your poison wisely. Some of them are: Kinect driver and runtime. ASUS HyStream.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

The Ghost Howls

The Neo 2 may not be sexy as the Quest, but it is more powerful (thanks to the Snapdragon 845), has a crisper resolution , and in the “Eye” version, it also features embedded eye tracking. And all of this is cheaper than the $1000 enterprise Oculus Quest : the Neo 2 costs $700 and the Neo 2 Eye costs $900. Some XR fun.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.03.18): Niantic sells Pokemon Go, Meta released passthrough APIs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Probably Ultraleap, or even when it was just Leap Motion, should have aimed to be bought by a headset manufacturer before all the major XR brands started developing hand tracking internally. This means that Samsung wont go all-in with hand tracking like Apple did.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.04): Apple to launch its headset, Meta unveils Quest 3 and many games, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”. How is Apple going to sell this headset?

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