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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Called Laser Dance , the Quest game aims to turn any room of your house into a laser obstacle course—basically recreating the old laser hallway trope you may recognize from a ton of films, TV shows and video games over the years. There’s no word on release dates yet, although progress is looking good.

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JULY 11, 2021

launched the first official Harry Potter Store in NYC, offering fans of the long-running book and film franchise the chance to immerse themselves in the Wizarding World while, of course, shopping for official brand merchandise. Explore Hogwarts and fly a broomstick in these social VR experiences coming soon to the Harry Potter flagship store.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Wallace & Gromit in the Grand Getaway successfully translates the films into a VR adventure with a few hiccups. Here's our full review: As much as I love the films, I've always been apprehensive about Wallace & Gromit's video game adaptations. I'm also impressed by the hand-tracking controls. While Jamtastic!

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MAY 28, 2020

The 360° films Dear Mom and When We Stayed. We’ve seen an astonishing lineup of cinematic experiences across the Oculus platform these past few weeks.

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MAY 30, 2024

Previously, Marvel Powers United VR from Sanzaru explored superpowers with controllers in hand while Avengers: Damage Control extended the idea to hand tracking a couple years later at The Void locations. "We've been really waiting for this kind of mixed reality moment for a long time," Shereif M. In What If.

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Road to VR

MARCH 23, 2018

Leap Motion , a maker of hand-tracking software and hardware, has been experimenting with exactly that, and is teasing some very interesting results. Leap Motion has shown lots of cool stuff that can be done with their hand-tracking technology, but most of it is seen through the lens of VR.

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MAY 26, 2020

Two forward-facing cameras allow for onboard hand-tracking removing the need for motion controllers alltogether. “You don’t have to carry anything around: wherever you are, you can pull out the headset, pull out your hands, and get started.” “It’s true mobility,” adds Chou.

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DECEMBER 15, 2019

Originally debuted during the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival as part of the Virtual Arcade, Where Thoughts Go works by asking the user a series of personal questions pertaining to their life and past experiences. Image Credit: Lucas Rizzotto. Where Thoughts Go is available now on the Oculus Quest for $9.99.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

VR Film of the Year. VR Film of the Year went to Walt Disney Animation for their captivating submission Myth: A Frozen Tale. The experience beat out the Cirque du Soleil experience by Felix and Paul Studios, Tribeca VR Films Gravity VR and Lutaw , and Enrique Agudo’s The Pantheon of Queer Mythology. Myth: A Frozen Tale.

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MAY 1, 2024

From hand-made environments in VR using Quill to hand tracking supported by players in VR headsets, Peanut Button's The Secret Of Retropolis offers a tantalizing tease of the future. Embody the witty protagonist of a film noir plot. Meet unforgettable characters. Solve puzzles.

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MARCH 26, 2020

After all, Facebook’s GDS used already-filmed content and it went great. On April 7, Senior Developer Evangelist Dario Laverde will present “Build for Tomorrow: VIVE Hand Tracking SDK.” The talk will cover how and why to roll out hand tracking affordances with Unity.

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JULY 16, 2020

See Also: Best VR Hand Tracking Games for Oculus Quest in 2020. VR Film of the Year. Gravity VR , the Tribeca VR film by Fabio Rychter and Amir Admoni. Lutaw , the Tribeca VR film by Samantha Quick and Michaela Holland. The Pantheon of Queer Mythology , a VR short film by Enrique Agudo.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Venice Immersive returned once more with the Venice International Film Festival, and we went hands-on with a number of projects from creators worldwide. As someone who's traditionally been nearly exclusively focused on video games, I'm slowly finding my feet with film festivals. Day two involved three new projects.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

Quest hand tracking is perfect for slower experiences with light interaction. During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. The Overall.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Native hand tracking, PC/standalone hybrid functionality, and new games confirmed for the Oculus platform. Oculus Quest hand tracking – One of the most exciting reveals made during this years developer conference, Oculus has announced that native hand and finger tracking will be available on the Oculus Quest in early 2020.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Environmentally-conscious XR is all the rage at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier showcase. We could even manipulate particle clouds using our hands via Magic Leap’s onboard hand-tracking technology. Breathe offers a fresh take on climate change awareness with a breathing-focused coop experience.

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JULY 28, 2022

Joe Hunting met the subjects of his documentary in the physical world for the first time during the film’s tour. We Met In Virtual Reality is the full-length documentary now streaming to HBO subscribers and it was captured by Hunting while finishing a film-making degree in COVID-19 isolation.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It turns out that it has been delayed again since the company is not satisfied with the quality of the hands tracking offered by the currently-used tracking cameras. The Lynx will ship with hands tracking as the primary interaction method, so high-quality hands tracking is crucial for this headset.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. One in which you take one hand of yours, y ou throw it to the other side of the room, and then remotely move your hand to perform some tasks. It is amazing to be seen.

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AUGUST 5, 2017

The video was filmed with a HoloLens and demonstrates the creative capabilities of Actiongram , a Windows Store app that allows users to direct and produce their own MR videos by blending holographic characters with a number of props and visual effects, including Nyan Cat, Hello Kitty, George Takei, and of course, the new Reggie Watts collection.

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Full Dive Gaming

MARCH 8, 2023

GET IT HERE: [link] 0:00 VR Podcast Dev Spotlight 0:43 Film Industry Expert 1:44 Working with Oculus 2:56 Hand Tracked FIGHTING Game??? 14:59 Hand Tracking for Practical Teaching? 4:58 Secrets of SELF DEFENSE 6:07 DISCLAIMER 7:34 Self Defense IRL 10:19 What Inspired You?

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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2018

Leap Motion, the company behind the hand-tracking depth sensor, recently tweeted out another through-the-headset view of a prototype UI, this time centered on how some simple elements might work in the “augmented office” of the near future. Zero trickery.” ” Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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DECEMBER 24, 2022

People in a room may see a different selection of films. Shankar says Bigscreen is also planning a friends systems and new avatars in early 2023 and they’re planning to support hand tracking at some point in 2023. If content is not available in your region, you won’t be able to watch it together with friends.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Using stylish, hand-drawn monochrome visuals with great narration from Olivia Cooke, this story finds his daughter learning more about his inner self. It’s a mostly guided experience where events unfold around you, and interaction is usually limited to picking up objects with hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Jorge Torales, CEO at Torch VR, a VR park in Prague, the Czech Republic says: “I was hired by the Institute of Documentary Film to consult with several teams trying to implement game mechanics into their applications. Most notably, Spencer Hunt from Skydance Media, a company co-producing films with Paramount Pictures.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Best Art or Film. Sony Electronics Head of Business Development, Thaisa Yamamura, presented the Auggie Award for Best Art or Film. The studio helped to create the VR version of Breonna’s Garden, and was also a nominee in the Best Art or Film for bringing Burning Man to VR. All these four awards are decided at the conference.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Best Art or Film. The Auggie Award for Best Art or Film was presented by Jesse Damiani to Lucid Dreams for their VR adventure “ The Key.”. Emily Olman presented the Auggie Award for Best Indie Creator to Greg Madison for his work on hand tracking on flat surfaces – Tangible UI. Best Campaign. Best Indie Creator.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? It’s something crazy that I would like to try.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Hopefully, Reverse the Curse leans more in the direction of experiences like Ralph Breaks VR , which employed a healthy combination of both handheld weaponry and hand-tracking technology. Though Damage Control could without a doubt be considered a VR shooter, it’s still a refreshing change of pace from conventional weaponry.

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MAY 14, 2020

The Finalists for Best Art or Film Are: Grease AR – 2020’s XR technology ode to everyone’s favorite ‘70s musical that took place in the ‘50s. Jumanji: The Next Level Web AR Experience – an interactive promotion for the film sequel. See Also: VR Artist Rosie Summers on Art and Virtual Reality.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Eye tracking also has promise as an advanced input system. Goldman cited the Apple Vision Pro, which uses a combination of eye tracking and hand-tracking to go completely controller-free. What’s less nefarious for me and more interesting as a user is contextual search.”

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Nintendo’s Power Glove was, to quote one of the eighties’ finest films, “so bad.” The product combines hand tracking with haptic feedback to give the user a more hands-on approach to interacting with the virtual environment around them.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Speaking of movies, you can even edit a Hollywood film thanks to Vision Pro’s impressive number of traditional apps , making the headset more of a face-computer than a gaming console like Quest. Director Jon Chu edited his upcoming film Wicked on Vision Pro after being stuck in the house due to flooding.

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APRIL 5, 2024

In fact I have to admit that I was so lost in the film that I forgot to capture and screenshots for this article! With a high quality video on a huge screen, great sound with noise cancellation, and a movie with constant action, I was lost in an audio-visual reality that practically made me forget I was on a plane.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Part of the Venice International Film Festival, we attended the festival and went hands-on with many experiences, also speaking with the co-curators. As someone who's never been to a film festival, never mind one with an XR segment, Venice Immersive was a learning experience for me. Here’s everything we saw.

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JUNE 15, 2024

The visionOS 2 beta improves hand tracking and scene understanding ; it now supports room-scale VR and WebXR by default , and delivers other key improvements. Titled 'Fields of Crimson Fury,' this collection is inspired by tabletop roleplaying games, fantasy films, and classic power metal songs. Looking for the biggest VR news?

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JUNE 29, 2020

SEE ALSO Hand-tracking Text Input System From Facebook Researchers Throws Out the Keyboard (sort of). The researchers effectively ‘captured’ a hologram of a real lens, condensing the optical properties of a real lens into a paper-thin holographic film. Now I’m going to blow your mind.

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