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Google Releases Real-time Mobile Hand Tracking to R&D Community

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Google has released to researchers and developers its own mobile device-based hand tracking method using machine learning, something Google R esearch engineers Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang call a “new approach to hand perception.” in palm detection, researchers claim.

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ManoMotion Brings Hand Gesture Input to Apple’s ARKit

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ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

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EyeSight demos VR gesture control using standard phone.

AllThingsVR

EyeSight demos VR gesture control using standard phone hardware Over the past few years EyeSight has been establishing a name for itself by bringing gesture control to a series of computing platforms, from mobile devices to smart eyeglasses. Read more here.

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Hands-On: The Mira Prism Headset Wants To Be The Google Daydream Of AR

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Instead of relying on hand-based gesture controls every Prism will come with a controller you hold in your hand similar to the Samsung Gear VR or Google Daydream controller. With a goal of fulfilling the role of being the Google Daydream of AR, there are a lot of hurdles left to cross still.

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AWE 2024: Magic Leap to Wow Attendees with Android Smartwatch AR Input Device

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

At AWE this week, leading XR headset vendor Magic Leap and gesture technology innovators Doublepoint Technologies are highlighting a deep product partnership to distribute WowMouse, an input device that leverages Android smartwatches to enable gesture controls such as pinch and gaze for AR applicaitons.

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The Continuing Saga of Focals by North

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The company, which was founded by three friends, Stephen Lake, Matthew Bailey and Aaron Grant, had formed the company, then called Thalmic Labs, to develop an EMG based gesture controller, the Mio Armband , (which is still the most capable EMG controller ever offered to consumers), before pivoting into the perilous waters of augmented reality.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.10.01): Meta Connect 2024, Apple Vision Pro refresh, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Qualcomm shut it down to focus on Snapdragon Spaces Learn more News from partners (and friends) Distance Technologies got a €10M investment Distance Technology, the glass-free AR startup founded by two of the co-founders of Varjo, just got €10M investment from Google Ventures. Big kudos to the team and good luck for the future!

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