Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

And though our hands-on with the headset exclusively used hand-tracking and eye-tracking input, the company says it’s also making first-party motion controllers which will be natively supported as part of Android XR.

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APRIL 10, 2025

Is Quest’s hand-tracking good enough for a rhythm game, which genuinely needs low latency and precise input? Considering it’s relying totally on hand-tracking, Beatable is compensating when it comes to activating notes. moment when creativity gifts you something special! BEATABLE is that game!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 2, 2021

After I have written my super in-depth review on the Vive Focus 3 , HTC has finally enabled hands tracking on its device , so I decided to talk about it to you. All you need to know on Hand Tracking on Vive Focus 3 – Video. Hands Tracking on the Vive Focus 3. A look at the Hand tracking SDK.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The frantic food game Clash of Chefs VR just received a major update that lets you ditch your Oculus Touch controllers and cook delicious cartoon food with your own two hands. Hand tracking turns up the heat in the kitchen, allowing you to assemble complex dishes. Image Credit: Flat Hill Games.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2025

XR Games, the studio behind Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded (2024) and Starship Troopers Continuum (2024) , announced a new rhythm game for Quest called BEATABLE, which uses hand-tracking to turn any table into a musical instrument. It’s been awhile since I’ve been so addicted to a rhythm game.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2021

One of the VIVE Focus 3’s most exciting features is the AI-powered hand-tracking. Thanks to a recent firmware update, the hand-tracking experience has been improved even further, offering better stability, performance, and accuracy while in VR. These gestures can be used in a variety of VR experiences.

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VRScout

APRIL 19, 2022

Motion controllers are so 2016. Meta today announced a handful of significant updates on their way to the Presence Platform designed to improve its hand-tracking capabilities. This includes improved tracking, new gestures, and over-lapping hand movements just to name a few.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2023

Before AWE even started, Ultraleap has already announced an amazing piece of news: the launch of the Leap Motion Controller 2. Every maker or research center I know had bought this device to be used in UX studies, robotics, digital signage, or whatever other use case where hand tracking would have been useful. narrow FOV).

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VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Because motion controllers are so 2020… The popular VR social platform VRChat yesterday announced experimental hand and finger tracking support for Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro, allowing standalone VR players to ditch their motion controllers and interact with the in-game world using their own two hands.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Steam Link now supports Quest hand tracking, and forwards it to PC VR apps so they can use it. The Steam Link app forwards hand tracking through to any PC VR app that uses either OpenXR hand tracking or SteamVR Skeletal Input. Hand tracking is also supported in the SteamVR interface itself.

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Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2025

Indie studio X82 announced it’s releasing a parkour game next month that’s throwing in a veritable buffet of unique locomotion styles, hoping to put Quest’s hand-tracking on par with controller-based movement. “There is also a seated / controller mode where you just use analogue sticks.”

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2024

Vision Pro is built entirely around hand-tracking while Quest 3 uses controllers first and foremost, but also supports hand-tracking as an alternate option for some content. But which has better hand-tracking? The core input system combines hands with eyes to control the entire interface.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2025

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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 14, 2024

UploadVR had been receiving review units multiple days in advance of launch under embargo from Oculus/Facebook/Meta for 8 years now: both Rift headsets, the Touch controllers, Oculus Go, and every Quest to date - until now. This aspect of controller tracking works even in total darkness. But again, that's a rare case.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

Meta Quest v72 is starting to roll out, bringing significantly improved hand tracking, passthrough keyboard cutout, a new Gallery app, and more. Hand Tracking 2.3 The flagship improvement in Quest v72 is to controller-free hand tracking. Hand Tracking 2.3

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

brings phone mirroring, mouse & keyboard support, improved hand tracking and passthrough, and a number of other improvements. In Meta Quest, on the other hand, bringing your phone into the headset requires using a USB-C cable and USB capture card. also improves controller-free hand tracking.

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VRScout

JANUARY 20, 2023

The game includes support for hand-tracking, allowing you to manipulate shadows, light, and walls without the need for your Touch motion controllers. Image Credit: Team Panoptes, Beyond Frames Entertainment The post This Upcoming VR Game Lets You Control Shadows appeared first on VRScout. silhouette.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Waltz of the Wizard is the first game on PlayStation VR2 to support hand tracking following today's free update. While Waltz of the Wizard initially introduced hand tracking back in 2020 on Quest 1, developer Aldin Dynamics revealed the PS VR2 edition now supports all hand tracking features currently available on Meta Quest.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

PlayStation VR2's first hand tracking game is also available on Quest, offering a comparison between the two headsets. Waltz of the Wizard added hand tracking on PlayStation VR2 last week , the first title to do so, just under five years after it became one of the first to add the feature on the original Oculus Quest too.

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Road to VR

JULY 22, 2024

Disembodied is a unique platformer coming to Quest that answers the question: how do you build a ‘traditional’ game entirely around hand-tracking? Retroactively adding hand-tracking to existing games is a bit of a mixed bag.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Models of Valve Deckard's 'Roy' controllers have been discovered in SteamVR driver files, revealing their design and inputs. Code references to Valve 'Roy' controllers were first discovered earlier this month by XR enthusiast Brad Lynch's Discord group of SteamVR dataminers. But what kind of headset will Deckard be?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Tracking & Controllers Image courtesy Meta When it comes to headset tracking, Meta consistently has the best inside-out tracking in its class. Aside from annoying software-related stutters, Quest 3S tracking is robust and handles low light situations well enough.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned studio behind Job Simulator (2016) and Vacation Simulator (2019) , surprise announced its next VR title today, a hand-tracking-tastic social co-op game called Dimensional Double Shift. And you can get ready to multiplayer job this week.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Hand-tracking & Positional-tracking Improvements The most notable, perhaps is the claimed “six times” improvement in hand-tracking accuracy, alongside a 10% reduction in latency. The company continues to support and improve the device, including a major update released today (v1.4.0)

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DECEMBER 8, 2024

Apple and Sony are working to bring support for PlayStation VR2's controllers to Vision Pro, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Gurman has a strong track record when it comes to reporting Apple's moves in advance, and he even revealed many details of Vision Pro itself before it was officially revealed or even acknowledged to exist by Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The first one comes from Google, and it is called Genie 2 , a foundation world model capable of generating an endless variety of action-controllable, playable 3D environments for training and evaluating embodied agents . For this reason, Apple may be working to make PSVR 2 controllers compatible with the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve made my usual video review of the new UltraLeap Gemini runtime , with some cool in-action shots of me using hands-tracking.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2025

Play For Dream MR has packed in a laundry list of modern XR features, including a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset running Android 15,dual 3,840 3,552 micro-OLED displays (90Hz), eye-tracking, auto IPD adjustment, wired and wireless PC streaming, and also a Quest Pro-inspired rear-mounted battery and Touch-style controllers.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Evidence suggests Valve's next VR controller could include a D-pad and bumpers to act as a gamepad together too. Valve Patents New VR Controller With Quest-Like Tracking Ring A Valve patent may reveal the controller for its in-development VR headset. Index has now been on the market for well over three years.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Rogue Ascent VR is a killer-looking VR shooter that makes use of Quest hand-tracking technology to immerse you in a sci-fi adventure where you use your bare hands to blast your way through multiple action-packed levels. To access your weapons you just hold up your hands and make the classic “finger guns” gesture.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2024

Vision Pro doesn’t have controllers, but it’s clear Apple will need to support immersive hardware input somehow in the future, if only for the greater precision it might bring to industry professionals. Why are controllers so important in the first place?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

I have had the joy of trying the new UltraLeap Stereo IR 170 hands-tracking sensor for VR and evaluate its performances. I have appreciated it a lot, so I thought it could have been a cool idea to make a post for you to describe how it is and compare it with the previous Leap Motion controller. Are you in?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Or that it has multimodal input and can be commanded using controllers, hands, eyes, or voice. Controllers are to come in 2025, the year the headset will ship. It also improves hand tracking in enclosed environments like the ones that you find when you are in travel mode. This is super beneficial for everyone.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Thankfully, Little Cities works very well with hand-tracking input, as it includes gesture controls and bespoke bubble popping UI so users can easily place roads, construct houses, and build landmarks in their bustling little towns. Check out the trailer below, courtesy MIXED.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2025

The only thing we have been hinted at is that the control scheme for this device will be different than the one of the industrial model (and I would say that it is a great piece of news, considering that the controllers of the industrial model are pretty bad as we’ll see in a while).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2025

High-quality materials, intricate designs, and rigorous quality control result in additional production costs, including the inevitable scrap of some expensive components to meet our standards. taxes) USD New Price (EUR excl. taxes) USD New Price (EUR excl.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 15, 2021

Hand Physics Lab is an experience for Oculus Quest developed by Dennys Kuhnert that is all about hand interactions. The game is intended to be played using the Oculus Quest native hands tracking and makes strong use of believable physics. The same holds for Hand Physics Lab. The trailer of the game.

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