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It even had support for eye tracking, which we now know was through a partnership with none other than SMI. However, there was one thing that was missing, handtracking. In fact, Intel was already demoing handtracking this year at CES with their Project Alloy prototype.
Qualcomm has debuted an updated version of their VR Headset Reference Design now with LeapMotion’s new 180-degree hand-tracking to bring gesture control to mobile VR headsets. The new headset and LeapMotiontracking module was shown off during last week’s GDC 2017.
Many mobile headsets, like the Google Daydream View and Samsung Gear VR, become fully functional as soon as you slide your compatible smartphone into them. Samsung Gear Controller. Oculus Touch hand controllers. Fully immersive VR experiences bring us to trackedmotion controllers. 3DOF Wand Controllers.
Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. Robust to handling objects: Hyperion offers superior handtracking while holding an object in your hand, making it perfect for mixed reality.
LeapMotion is a young technology company that is perhaps best known at this point for what it sells at your local Best Buy. This device then uses infrared scanning technology to detect the position of your hands in 3D space. However, an $80 peripheral is not what the Leap team has in mind for the future.
This is a great feature, even if I think that to be really great it has to be properly tuned with the companion app: while doing demos with my Gear VR, that automatically shows the notifications of my Samsung phone, I was really afraid of what my friend could send me. And Vive Controllers? version of the runtime of the Focus.
What was until some time ago a very cool startup with a lot of knowledge about haptics and handtracking (and with a lot of friends of mine) is now just a ghost. This means that Samsung wont go all-in with handtracking like Apple did. The company has also laid off 30 employees.
Dominic Brennan from Road to VR estimates that Santa Cruz is using the same 1,440 × 1,600 displays that are also found in the Samsung Odyssey and Vive Pro headsets. For those of you that will not be able to attend in San Jose, California you can watch the event live streamed in virtual reality on your Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR!
LeapMotion. You may ask why I’m adding LeapMotion here. Well, during 2018, LeapMotion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to LeapMotion’s sensor.
But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset. More information about it is coming “later this year” Project Starline , the booth to have volumetric 1-to-1 calls has been improved and optimized. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.
And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and HandsTracking. Handtracking on Quest. Handstracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.
Oculus releases handstracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. First of all, Oculus has finally released the handstracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset. I hate this.
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