VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2022

To bring the Thor AR fitness experience to life, Live and Bouffard took advantage of Spectacles hand tracking abilities in order to layer Thor’s hammer over the real-world dumbbell. We started off trying curls, but because of the occlusion of the weights, it wouldn’t always see my hands. “We Image Credit: Cix Liv.

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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. How do astronauts exercise in space? It was a trust exercise. What is this thing, what does that do? It will just read off information it has,” says Pavitt. “So

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For instance, the gloves can detect which weight you are lifting, so they can follow you while you do your fitness exercise in XR. So, for instance, he can use the bare hand with the left hand and the controller in the right hand, or he can use the controllers in both, then put them on the table and start using hand tracking with both hands.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It uses hand tracking and a real piano to teach you to play songs. Then VR might be an excellent motivation to get more exercise as it is less boring, at least in my opinion. It’s also pretty cool to see others drum entire covers using it. If you’ve got a piano, you should try it! Don’t like going to the gym?

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2023

Fitness+ : will let users exercise while watching an instructor in VR. Controller : Apple is said to favor hand-tracking and voice recognition to control the headset, but it has tested a “wand” and a “finger thimble” as alternative control input methods. Apple Books : will allow users to read in virtual reality.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Product designer Eugene Nadyrshin says the ostensibly hardware agnostic controller will use custom hand-tracking models together with IMUs for sensor fusion, and include a Linear Resonant Actuators (LRA) at the back of the hand which give vibro-tactile feedback. Here’s why: Hardware is very hard, but it’s also a moat.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2024

Ok, you don’t need a Magic keyboard, just a Bluetooth one (or even just a connected iPhone), but if you already have one laying around, you” appreciate being able to exercise that muscle memory.

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VR Fitness

MARCH 19, 2021

VRWorkout uses hand tracking so it’s possible exercise in VR without touch controllers and Gschwandtner has added many features for players who might find traditional fitness routines or VR games inaccessible. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Available with both hand-tracking and Touch controller support, this includes immersive guided meditations for reducing stress, mood-boosting exercises that aim to release tension and games designed to "build mindfulness skills you can take back to the real world."

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Hand-tracking functionality, physical obstacles, timed aromas, and various other elements all combined to deliver a colorful adventure that does an incredible job of convincing players they’re actually shooting confectionary items at hostile bunny rabbit enemies.

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Upload VR

MAY 16, 2024

Offering gameplay that capitalizes on VR's physicality, Masters of Light puts hand-tracked pseudo-fitness at the heart of this gaming experience. The gestures are intuitive and responsive, making dispatching enemies with them an enjoyable enough exercise; and make no mistake, exercise it is.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Couple that with all the other advancements the technology is having with hand-tracking, haptics and deep learning and you can see that it’s only a matter of years before we’re touching holograms in our own home with devices more reminiscent of glasses instead of silly looking headsets.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 18, 2023

The firm outlines how Chat GPT integration in immersive job training sessions can provide simulated interview exercises that react to a user’s unique response in real time. Chat GPT also applies in job interview VR training sessions, says Virtualspeech.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This is perfect for getting over human excuses not to exercise or becoming a couch zombie. Hold up those robot hands! To conclude, the Quest hand tracking would be a welcome option when the time comes. VR can turn you into almost anything with reality shattering design. Simply put, the Rift’s cord gets in the way.

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Upload VR

MARCH 31, 2023

Not only do they set the rhythm of each movement, which is essential, but also demonstrate each exercise as you go. The app makes use of two important features to combat this: hand-tracking support and passthrough mode. There’s also a little icon for each exercise showing which muscle groups it works.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is also the most interesting because it introduces features like eye tracking, hand tracking, and especially a 2280×2280 per-eye resolution display that makes it compelling for professional use. Most of the other gloves can only work with applications using hand-tracking or applications that are built ad hoc for gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 3, 2023

Ultraleap people invited me to keep my hands low while doing the exercise to prove that you can interact with AR elements without having your hands in front of you , which is tiresome in the long run (and leads to the Gorilla Arm syndrome). It worked fairly well.

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VRGames

MARCH 30, 2023

Incorporating various technologies like passthrough and hand tracking to mixed reality, this game mode has users ditching motion controllers in favor of real dumbbells to target 16 important muscle groups via an interactive muscle map. Rather […]

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The software also provides statistics to the user, that can so see how much he/she is exercising well in VR. 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). It seems that also the Pimax 5K+ in some conditions can now run at 120Hz.

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

On Thursday, May 27th, key players from the haptics, hand tracking, and VR training industries gathered to discuss the scaling of haptics in VR training applications. The development of high-fidelity hand tracking interactions and haptic feedback can take a very long time and be complicated. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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VRScout

MAY 12, 2020

All the fun of Beat Games’ VR rhythm slasher, minus the physical exercise. Since rolling out on Oculus Quest headsets this past December, Beauchamp has been hard at work pumping out numerous experimental hand tracking projects, each more mind-bending than the last. Image Credit: Danial Beauchamp (Push Matrix).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This is often referred to as brain neuroplasticity and is the key to long-term functional recovery” An exercise on the Ulysses VR rehabilitation platform. For example, when wearing the first prototyped haptic glove device, headsets failed to utilise hand-tracking tools due to the wearable’s exoskeleton.

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JULY 18, 2024

. “That might sound a little counterintuitive to folks,” remarked Wright, who also noted that Campfire is observing that customers are buying the Quest 3 for consumer needs like gaming or exercise, but after that initial purchase, those buyers will take the device to work and discover new use cases.

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Full Dive Gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

QUEST 2 VR FITNESS WORKOUT APP: XRWORKOUT is a hand tracking based full body fitness game with a strong focus on working out together.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

Backpack PCs, for example, are one avenue to completely wireless VR that’s doable with the Vive but not the Rift because the PC doesn’t physically connect to the tracking system. Demos shown by HTC at CES include tracking a wrist and glove combo for hand tracking, as well as a fire hose and gun.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 28, 2020

Curiously, one promising exception is in the replacement of touchscreens using a combination of hand-tracking and midair haptic holograms, which function as button replacements. A useful exercise going forward is to consider how would we do haptic design differently knowing we’d be facing another COVID-19-style pandemic in 2030?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

Daniel is an XR professional that has become very famous this year for his mindblowing experiments with the hands tracking of the Oculus Quest , where every prototype of his is focused on an interaction that is so crazy that most of the time you couldn’t think about it before. Networked hand tracking!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Numerous innovations continue to enhance the smart glasses industry for enterprise workers, including developments in hand tracking, device management, software platforms, and interoperability. Global teams are now intricately connected with remote engineers and experts, leading to a streamlined, agile workforce.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 21, 2017

For Leap Motion rigged hand models, hand tracking, and Interaction Engine setup, it’s quick and easy to begin with one of the scene examples from the Interaction Engine module folder. For the next part of the VR sculpture project, we can begin exercising the Interaction Engine’s reactive widgets.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 15, 2022

This app combines passthrough and hand tracking to deliver a fun, flexible learning experience. It even has a hand-tracking feature that will identify which finger you should be used to press each key. PianoVision. Price: Free. Why pay hundreds in piano tuition when you can learn for free with PianoVision ?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Or in some other instances, that location that I see around me in the virtual space may have some real relevance to the task at hand. They can just use their fingertips and flick things onto the wall and it’s just so much easier. Because right now, most people are kind of lazy about how they run meetings.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Or in some other instances, that location that I see around me in the virtual space may have some real relevance to the task at hand. They can just use their fingertips and flick things onto the wall and it’s just so much easier. Because right now, most people are kind of lazy about how they run meetings.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Or in some other instances, that location that I see around me in the virtual space may have some real relevance to the task at hand. They can just use their fingertips and flick things onto the wall and it's just so much easier. Because right now, most people are kind of lazy about how they run meetings.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Airspace Defender 0:00 / 3:45 1× Airspace Defender is a modern take on the classic Missile Command arcade game that utilizes Quest 3’s color passthrough and hand tracking to create an immersive mixed reality experience. You can read more about Homeworld: Vast Reaches here and you can grab a copy for yourself here.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Without them, adapting most existing VR games to the Vision Pro becomes either an exercise in retrofitting control schemes, or completely starting on new projects built around the headset’s admittedly impressive hand and eye-tracking.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Fitness Fables Is A VR Fantasy-Fitness Experience Heading To Quest Next Year Developed by Immersion Games ( Divine Duel ), Fitness Fables describes itself as a fantasy-fitness game with more than 25 exercises included across 80 levels. Dimensional Double Shift , the hand-tracking co-op game by Owlchemy Labs, recently added the B.O.O.S.T.E.R

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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