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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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Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Game Has You Solving Puzzles By Throwing Your Dismembered Hand

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A proof-of-concept shows how hand tracking technology is bringing new possibilities to VR gaming. He’s also an avid VR developer working on some of the most unique projects for the Oculus Quest using the headsets’ newly-implemented hand tracking functionality. Image Credit: Danielle Beauchamp.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.12.16): Android XR announced, Samsung headset showcased, and more!

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Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announced Android XR The most important news of the week, and one of the most important of the whole year, has been the official announcement by Google of Android XR. Google has entered the field, bringing new validation to XR, and also new competition in the space.

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New Quest Game from ‘Job Simulator’ Studio Surprise-launches This Week, Built Entirely Around Hand-tracking

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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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Samsung’s Android XR Headset Will Have First-party Motion Controllers & Support PC VR Streaming

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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. While this is confirmed, details here are slim too. It looks to be leaning toward the latter.

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Google’s Owlchemy Labs Teases Its First Multiplayer VR Game & It’s All About Hand Tracking

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Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio known for Job Simulator (2016) and Cosmosmious High (2022) , teased a new multiplayer VR game that’s built from the ground-up for hand tracking interactions. Since Cosmonious High’s launch, our studio has nearly tripled in size.

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Vive Focus to Get 6DOF Controller Mode, Optical Hand-tracking for Gesture Input

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Today at its Vive Ecosystem Conference 2018 in China, HTC said that the 3DOF Vive Focus controller will see a 6DOF mode, and further said that the headset will soon include controller-less hand-tracking for gesture input. Hand-tracking for Gesture Input. 3DOF to 6DOF Controller Upgrade.