VRScout

JULY 21, 2020

A wristband with four thermal sensors promises a more detailed hand tracking experience. Because FingerTrak uses thermal images to track your hand movements, the system is capable of more precise hand tracking when compared to options such as the Leap Motion Controller or the Oculus Quests.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2022

Ultraleap Stratos Explore is the product for which Ultrahaptics (which later became Ultraleap after the fusion with Leap Motion) was famous. It is a little box you could put on your table to feel haptic sensations on your hands without wearing any kind of gloves. Hands-on Ultraleap Stratos. on the index fingertip).

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ARPost

APRIL 4, 2023

For the Fectar AR and VR content creation platform users, creating XR content with hand tracking feature has just become simpler and easier. Ultraleap’s hand tracking and mid-air haptic technologies allow XR users to engage with the digital world naturally – with their hands, and without touchscreens, keypads, and controllers.

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Upload VR

JUNE 28, 2024

The startups formerly known as Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion appear to be heading in separate directions again after 5 years together ended in significant layoffs. A Sky News report cites "sources" as saying the company is halving its workforce and plans to "seek a buyer for its hand-tracking business."

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Upload VR

MAY 31, 2023

Leap Motion 2 is a $140 accessory that adds ultra high quality hand tracking to PC VR and standalone headsets. The original Leap Motion was a desktop hand tracking accessory launched in 2014 that could be mounted to the front of early modern VR headsets like the Oculus DK2.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 2, 2017

Hand-tracking looks likely to play a big part in that future, and Leap Motion is one of a few companies leading the charge in this department. Leap’s latest, well, leap is to bring its controller-free hand tracking tech to mobile VR headsets.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 20, 2018

This new capability, which HTC demonstrated today at the WCVRI conference, enables hand-tracking without the need of the need of externally tracked controllers. HTC also indicates that the capability can track individual finger movements too. Image courtesy HTC.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The Windows Mixed Reality controllers are likely the first of many inside-out tracked controllers, adding more freedom to where you can use VR. Valve’s Knuckles controllers are still only a developer kit without a release date, but they are an interesting hand tracking solution. Leap Motion hand tracking sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Apart from being more accurate, Hyperion features some important new features, that the company describes as follows: Microgesture interactions: Hyperion can track small finger movements down to the millimeter, enabling subtle gestures that require minimal effort. I believe there will be many use cases for this.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is an exoskeleton for your hands that is able to provide you haptics sensations. This realism is offered through three main features: Fingers tracking : Senseglove can detect the orientation of your hand and also the bending angle of your fingers. Haptics quality. What is SenseGlove?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 12, 2019

I really hope this can happen, because VR with haptic feedback is overly cool! Basically, the glove is able to simulate the forces that objects apply to your hands in the real world. As you can see, they are pretty bulky, much bigger than the ones by Dexta Robotics (also because of the spacial haptic system that they have).

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XROM

JUNE 2, 2023

The Leap Motion Controller 2 is the ideal hardware for experiencing Ultraleap’s world-class hand tracking. Using the Leap Motion Controller 2 as an accessory, you can also enhance your experiences on both PC VR using the and untethered Android XR2 with Lenovo’s ThinkReality VRX headset.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2016

PowerClaw is a haptic glove that lets you feel heat, cold, and a number of sensations on the tips of your fingers. All of this however was done without any sort of tracking, a duty that PowerClaw has rested on the backs of optical hand tracking devices like Leap Motion.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2022

With tracking technologies, companies can build more immersive experiences for XR users. Eye tracking helps users to navigate a space more effectively, while improving software performance and minimising discomfort. Hand tracking, on the other hand, ensures individuals can interact more effectively with virtual content.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Probably we will also hear some news on hands tracking, solutions to create multiplayer LBVR installations with Oculus Quest and accessories for Quest&Rift S. Apart from the name change, I wonder if they will release soon a product that incorporates both hands tracking and contact-less haptic feedback in only one device.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

Go Touch VR’s approach to VR haptics achieves surprising effectiveness out of small, simple haptic devices that provide stimulation to the end of your fingers. It’s that grabbing, touching, and manipulation where Go Touch VR’s ‘ VR Touch ‘ haptics hopes to excel. Photo by Road to VR.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Oculus Link for example or Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond are two worthy mentions, yet it must be the experimental hand tracking feature for Oculus Quest that takes home the crown, especially after testing the technology first-hand. Even more so when it comes to the popular standalone Oculus Quest.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Ultrahaptics went on to raise $23 million, begin to interest car companies , and later absorb the much-hyped Leap Motion, which, it turns out, was a match made in heaven, by uniting both hand tracking and mid-air haptics. It’s really now time to scale out-of-home. ” Then there’s automotive.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

I had a chance to try out the Manus VR hand-tracked controller on the expo floor of GDC this year and saw that there a couple of really strong use cases for having your hands and fingers tracked in VR. There was some uncanniness in not being able to actually physically grab objects, which can break presence.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest names in the VR data glove field is Manus VR, and VRFocus recently got to test its new flagship product, Manus Prime Haptic. In reality that has taken longer than expected yet hand-tracking has now caught up with VR headsets. Then it came to the haptics. Well, sort of.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

To achieve their mission of delivering highly immersive, productive, and engaging experiences, Meta invests heavily in tracking technologies. Tools like the Oculus already come with hand tracking functionality, to help users interact with some software on a hands-free basis.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As mainstream VR/AR input continues to evolve – from the early days of gaze-only input to wand-style controllers and fully articulated hand tracking – so too are the virtual user interfaces we interact with. When we bring our hands into a virtual space, we also bring a lifetime’s worth of physical biases with us.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. The headset used sensors to detect my fingers, using software from Leap Motion. The headset didn’t incorporate any touch, or haptics, technology. As soon as we get finger detection, we want haptics.

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Steki Amusement

AUGUST 1, 2024

DPVR Unveils New Hand-Tracking Supported Headset E4 Arc in Collaboration with Ultraleap Owatch VR Beat Star Hand Interactive Arcade DPVR, a pioneering VR hardware and software solution provider, announces the launch of its new hand tracking supported headset, E4 Arc.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

VR, AR and hand tracking are often considered to be futuristic technologies, but they also have the potential to be the easiest to use. The scene presents the cat located at about chest height in front you, within an ergonomic area for both seated and standing hand manipulation. This is the core of our mission at Leap Motion.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 11, 2022

Ultraleap Gemini is a fifth-generation hand-tracking platform that supports virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) solutions, and has been designed to provide immersive, realistic, and interactive computing experiences. Interact with both hands together. In VR, Gemini makes it easier than ever to use two hands.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 8, 2019

It achieves this by using haptic feedback chairs – Buttkicker LFE haptics to be precise – all set in a tight arrangement without impeding gameplay. In conjunction with the chairs, the Entermission system uses HTC Vive Pro headsets as well as Leap Motion hand tracking to solve puzzles.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

VSDK is a Unity-based solution for developers looking to create naturalistic user interactions whilst supporting a wide variety of headsets (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest) and peripherals (bHaptics TactSuit, Leap Motion, and ManusVR gloves.).

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

VR has the power to transform our lives and connect us in new ways, while hand tracking lets you reach beyond the digital divide and take control. Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” NexusVR’s interactions are built on the idea of natural haptic feedback with your bare hands.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. My first major project was Battleship VR , which was intended to investigate UI interaction with finger tracking. What do VR and hand tracking each add to the experience of seeing and disassembling a thing in mid-air?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

What was until some time ago a very cool startup with a lot of knowledge about haptics and hand tracking (and with a lot of friends of mine) is now just a ghost. This means that Samsung wont go all-in with hand tracking like Apple did. The company has also laid off 30 employees.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Leap Motion, the optical hand-tracking firm, was acquired by Bristol, UK-based haptics company Ultrahaptics earlier this year. Leap Motion, known for its eponymous optical hand-tracking module and underlying software, was acquired by the company for a reported $30 million back in May.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 27, 2016

Interacting with Leap Motion. I chose to work with optical hand tracking using the Leap Motion Controller in order to perform gestures that were natural to our culture. The Leap Motion Controller worked well and everyone reacted naturally with the gestures. VRLA Reactions.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 11, 2016

One of the goals of our module releases is to provide you with the tools for interpreting and using hand tracking data to make building hand-enabled experiences faster and easier. By using the new LeapEventSystem prefab, developers can easily use their old worldspace user-interfaces and menus with hand tracking.

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