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Qualcomm’s Standalone VR Is Getting Embedded Leap Motion Hand Tracking

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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, hand tracking. In fact, Intel was already demoing hand tracking this year at CES with their Project Alloy prototype.

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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.

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A Hands on Look at the State of Input in VR

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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 tracked motion controllers. 3DOF Wand Controllers.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

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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 hand tracking while holding an object in your hand, making it perfect for mixed reality.

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We Tried Leap Motion’s New Hand Tracking Module On Gear VR

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Leap Motion 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.

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Vive Focus enter version 2.0 at VEC 2018

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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.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.03.18): Niantic sells Pokemon Go, Meta released passthrough APIs, and more!

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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.