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Tracking has been switched to inside-out , and Varjo now provides a set of controllers, manufactured by Razer, together with the headset. This is of course not required for the Secure edition It is possible to add Ultraleap handtracking for +499€. There is a lot of new to try in this device.
More info (Oculus Publishing revealed) More info (Meta announces Oculus Publishing) More info (Meta talks Quest Store revenues) Razer reveals the price of its Quest accessories Razer’s Quest 2 headstrap and facepad are now available for sale, priced at $70 each. Upload VR went hands-on with both and found them good.
It is also the most interesting because it introduces features like eye tracking, handtracking, and especially a 2280×2280 per-eye resolution display that makes it compelling for professional use. Most of the other gloves can only work with applications using hand-tracking or applications that are built ad hoc for gloves.
It’s interesting that someone has already started modifying this application, and a guy already obtained a version that works just with handtracking and no controllers.
We know that now with the Oculus Touch and the HTC Vive, but even when VR was simply a screen strapped to your head many felt that hands were the future. We began to develop The Gallery on the first Oculus devkit with the Razer Hydra (a Sixense technology) to deliver surrogate handtracking and body presence back in 2013.
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Varjo’s newest headset (available in various styles) sincludes multifocal passthrough cameras, controllers co-developed by Razer, and even integration with the powerful NVIDIA Omniverse. Inside-out tracking: Intelligent inside-out tracking and built-in Varjo controllers created with Razer. What is the Varjo XR-4 Series?
Sensics, who is a co-founder of Razer’s OSVR initiative, has naturally used the foundation of the OSVR HDK2 headset in creating the Goggles for Public VR. Pre-production models of the Sensics Goggles for Public VR use the familiar OSVR headstrap. Mass produced models will use a different strapping system.
Sensics and Razer launched OSVR 18 months ago with the intent of democratizing VR. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Handtracking software converts hand position into gestures. Introduction OSVR is an open source software platform and VR goggle.
Somnium’s cheapest ‘Classic Edition’ comes in at €1,900 (~$2,060 USD), which only includes VR and not passthrough mixed reality, eye-tracking or hand-tracking. Spring for the Ultimate Edition, which is the focus of the hands-on, and you’re looking at somewhere north of €3,500 (~$3,820 USD).
Vive Focus 3 , instead, has just released a new version of the runtime that dramatically improves handstracking , making it able to track properly also hands that are moving very fast. More info (Razer Qualcomm G3X) More info (Project Ironman) More info (iQiYi Adventure Dream) More info (Qualcomm Snapdragon 8).
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