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The XR Week Peek (2024.11.26): Valve Roy controller leaked, VR Black Friday deals, and more!

The Ghost Howls

But for now, I’ll just tell you what have been in my opinion the most interesting pieces of XR news of the week… Top news of the week (Image by KnightMD) Valve Deckard’s “Roy” controllers allegedly leaked The usual Brad Lynch with his team of data miners has found evidence of a controller codenamed Roy in the code of SteamVR.

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PSVR 2 Gets Its First Game with Controller-less Hand-Tracking

Road to VR

Even in 2016, it was clear Waltz of the Wizard was something special, as Aldin Dynamics used its own data analytics and visualization tool Ghostline toprototype the game’s level design and gameplaybasically an unheard amount of attention paid to actual users of the game.

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Valve Releases Hand-tracking Passthrough for Steam Link, Making Quest an Even Better PC VR Headset

Road to VR

To enable hand-tracking through Steam Link, make sure both SteamVR and the Steam Link app for Quest is updated and head into the Binding UI in SteamVR’s Controller Settings to toggle on hand-tracking. From there, simply tap your controllers together and you’ll be able to start experimenting. Valve says in the SteamVR 2.8

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Data Security: Top Challenge in the Metaverse According to Tech Leaders

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Ninety-seven percent of the respondents acknowledge the importance of data in the metaverse; Source: Bright Data. Tech giants are in a race to integrate into this new parallel world even as questions of data security surface. However, 60% cite data and security as the top challenges of this virtual world.

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Wisear lets you control XR with your jaw

The Ghost Howls

The idea is not the one of creating a next-gen XR controller or using hand tracking, but to try to detect the intention of the user from its biosignals. Wisear earbuds Wisear earbuds presentation The first product through which Wisear wants to fulfill its vision is a set of smart earbuds that you can use to control electronic devices.

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What’s the future of SteamVR tracking?

The Ghost Howls

Anyway, sub-mm accuracy, together with the precision and speed of the tracking contributes to making this tracking not only precise but also very reliable , even when you are moving your controllers pretty fast. This means that for most use cases, the precision of standalone controllers is now more than enough.

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Valve’s Standalone XR Headset ‘Deckard’ Reportedly Launching This Year at $1,200, Leaker Claims

Road to VR

Valve’s rumored standalone XR headset, codenamed ‘Deckard’, is practically the stuff of legend at this point, with speculation brewing since data miners first discovered mention of the alleged device in January 2021.