VRScout

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The VR gloves that will let you type and shoot spider webs from your hands. During his recent visit to the company research lab in Redmond, WA today; Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg recently posted photos of himself using a prototype glove that can be used in a AR/VR environment to emulate your physical hand movements in real time.

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2018

But we could see that change in the near future, thanks to research from Google which details a system for low-cost, mobile inside out VR controller tracking. But both headsets have controllers which track rotation only, meaning that hand input is limited to more abstract and less immersive movements. .”

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

It looked like Pico Neo 3 , combined with SteamVR tracking, hand tracking, and Pico 3 controllers that were mounted into the guns. Pico Neo 3 together with Vive trackers, hand tracking, and Pico 3 controllers The VEX representative declined to discuss hardware aspects, which I can understand.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2018

While high-end headsets like the Rift and Vive use external sensors for positional tracking, the Windows VR headsets use a fully ‘inside-out’ solution which eliminates the need for external trackers and simplifies setup, but certainly makes hand-tracking more challenging.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This eliminates the need for the SteamVR Tracking base stations used with the original Vive and Vive Pro, which moves the headset closer to a plug-and-play experience without the need to set up any external tracking hardware. Hand-tracking is another story.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The annual presentation at Oculus Connect by Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, is always a highlight of the company’s annual developer event, projecting a forward-thinking and ever inspirational look at the future of virtual reality.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Oculus Quest 2. The Oculus Quest 2 standalone virtual reality headset is the best in all categories given its room-scale VR capability, a large library of games, fast performance, and good resolution, especially for its price point. Tracking: Inside-out tracking and hand tracking. One potential downside?

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch new and improved non-controller hand and head tracking tools. Tracking is critical to ARVR experiences,” said Anli He, CEO and co-founder of uSens. “As

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Immersed says Visor features the XR2+ Gen 2 chipset , 4K micro-OLED displays, color passthrough, as well as eye tracking and hand tracking for a Vision Pro style gaze-and-pinch input system. We saw a series of images and videos displayed across both panels, as if they were a connected monitor, with no head tracking of any sort.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The platform can support up to 7 seven cameras, two internal, one for each eye for eye-tracking and four external cameras, two RGB cameras for MR experiences and two for head tracking. As Oculus Quest has proven customers want easy to use, wireless devices and 5G is expected to take that to the next stage.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I mean, on the Oculus Touch you have a middle finger trigger, that is used to grab stuff by closing your hand and the index finger that is used to trigger actions: when you use a VR gun, everything is more or less like in the real world. The Oculus Quest touch controllers: this is how I want manual interface in XR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

” Head tracking is an essential part of all mixed reality technology, both VR and AR, and the so-called inside-out variety in a VR headset makes set up dramatically easier. The Santa Cruz inside-out tracking prototype from Oculus. An example of the Windows Holographic user interface.

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Upload VR

JUNE 17, 2024

The first VR headset to ship after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014 was the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition, using the Note 4 smartphone as its display, processing center, and battery. enjoy a simple head-tracked game like Proton Pulse inside a literal cardboard box – just as you can today on a $3500 Apple Vision Pro.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

[link] Scope AR is introducing significant updates to its live support video calling platform, Remote AR, making it the first remote assistance software to enable markerless tracking. Soap Collective is debuting Atlas: Prologue, an interactive sci-fi adventure short highlighting episodic content and debuting on Oculus Rift + Touch.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 6, 2016

The judges will award points based on your head and hand dancing performance, awarding between 1 and 10 points. Hand tracking (via Leap Motion) and positional head tracking (via the Oculus Rift DK2/CV1 or HTC Vive) is required. How are the contestants judged? How does the competition work?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Oculus Quest was the main attraction at Oculus Connect 5 this week. Following the high-end standalone headset’s reveal, attendees of the conference got to try several demos to experience the headset’s inside-out positional head & hand tracking, including in an ‘arena-scale’ setting.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. Oculus’ best practices guide covers this issue in great detail. Combined with hand tracking and visual feedback, it can be used to create the “illusion” of tactile sensation.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2021

While the app doesn’t add core VR functionality like hand-tracking, for many games it adds head-tracking, stereoscopy, and other tweaks that make non-VR games playable inside the headset. It supports all Oculus, SteamVR, and WMR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Think the fact that Qualcomm powers almost all the most famous AR VR headsets on the market , like Oculus Quest , Vive Focus Plus , and HoloLens 2. It features two internal cameras, one for each eye to support eye tracking. I’m curious to see if Oculus will really want to abandon its amazing Insight in favor of this kind of tech.

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