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PlayStation VR2 Seemingly Now Has Controller-Free Hand Tracking

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Sony is demonstrating controller-free hand tracking on PlayStation VR2 at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024. Controller-free hand tracking is a standard feature on Meta Quest, Pico, and HTC Vive headsets, offering an alternative to controllers for interface interaction, social experiences, and casual gaming.

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Waltz Of The Wizard Is The First PlayStation VR2 Game To Support Hand Tracking

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0:00 / 0:52 1 We've known since December that Sony had been testing hand tracking support on PlayStation VR2 , though it's the first commercially available game utilizing this. During SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, a booth listed the tracking rate at 60 FPS while claiming the system displays the hands smoothly with low latency.

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Top XR Events in 2021 That Should Be on Your Must-Attend List

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AWE Asia 2021. We start our list of XR events in 2021 with AWE Asia because of the sheer size of the opportunities to explore and network. If you can’t travel to China for AWE Asia, you can attend the event at home, in sunny California. Our Top Recommendations: Must Attend XR Events in 2021. When: September 2 – September 3.

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The Next Frontier of XR Hardware

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The PICO 4 virtual reality headset was released mid-October last year and features 4K+ resolution, a weight of 295g, and is available in Europe and East Asia for €399 (around $428). HTC HTC is about to release its offering in the form of the VIVE XR Elite with a release date of February 25 and an entry-level price of $1,099.

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Report: Sony Expanding PSVR To Location-Based Experiences In Japan

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With around one million units sold , Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) is one of the more popular headsets on the market right now, but the company may already be looking to other ways to monetize its device. Perhaps Sony hopes that by getting the kit on more heads out in the wider world it can drive sales in the home.

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VR in 2016: HTC’s $799 Vive Brings Belief To VR Skeptics

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The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. And yet here we are, with the smartphone maker and Valve seemingly in it for the long haul. Expected Expense.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.02.08): Samsung is back to XR, Echo VR gets shut down, and more!

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More info (Quest 3 to feature color passthrough AR) More info (Quest 3 will not feature face tracking) Sony may be disappointed by PSVR 2 preorders A report by Bloomberg affirms that Sony is disappointed by the current preorders of the PSVR 2 and now plans to ship only 1.5M But Sony has refuted the report, claiming it is not true.

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