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VR City Manager ‘Little Cities’ is Headed to Vision Pro Next Month

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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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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.”

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Leap Motion’s New 180-degree Hand-tracking Comes to Qualcomm’s Latest VRDK Headset

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Qualcomm has debuted an updated version of their VR Headset Reference Design now with Leap Motion’s new 180-degree hand-tracking to bring gesture control to mobile VR headsets. The new headset and Leap Motion tracking module was shown off during last week’s GDC 2017. It’s also very tiny.

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NuEyes Adds Customizable Hand Gestures To Its AR Glasses

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Customize your hand gestures to activate specific visual and haptic feedback experiences. . The sensors are able to identify your left and right hands as well as whether you’re looking at the palm or backside. Gesture controls can be customized through an app to activate menus and can provide visual and haptic feedback.

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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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VRChat Now Has Beta Support For Hand Tracking On PC

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The open beta of the PC version of VRChat now natively supports hand tracking, via the SteamVR Skeletal Input system. The VRChat standalone app on the Quest Store has supported hand tracking since late 2022. But of course, the best way to experience VRChat is on PC. If you have an Apple Vision Pro, you can use ALVR.

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Top 5 Use Cases For Hand Eye Tracking Technology

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In the place of clunky plastic controllers and remotes, we’re seeing the rise of hand and eye tracking solutions, allowing users to move more freely throughout the digital world. XR motion tracking could even be a way for professionals in the athletic and sporting industry to detect issues with form and posture for each athlete.