Upload VR

APRIL 3, 2023

Instead of interacting with tracked controllers, I used Meta’s latest Hand Tracking 2.1 I came out of my demo and asked Andrew Eiche, the new CEO of Owlchemy Labs , if he thinks they’ve achieved the full interaction experience of Job Simulator with only hand tracking. ” Eiche asks.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

We got our first chance to try out the system today at an HTC press event in San Francisco. The shell includes necessary hardware for the tracking system which is based on ultrasonics. Today at a press event in San Francisco we got our first chance to try out the 6DOF controller dev kit. Photo by Road to VR.

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Upload VR

MAY 17, 2024

UploadVR Henry Stockdale Before flying out to San Francisco, Don hopped in the Dune Ornithopter and flew over Arrakis trying to complete rescue missions in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Delta Emulator Brings Game Boy & More To Apple Vision Pro Delta Emulator brings Nintendo’s Game Boy, DS, NES, SNES, and 64 to Apple Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In a meeting at HTC’s Vive office in San Francisco this week, I got to go hands-on with the Vive Cosmos headset. In my hour or so in the headset, the inside-out head-tracking felt very solid and quite on par with Oculus Quest and Rift S (both of which also use inside-out tracking). Hand-tracking is another story.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

Over the last year, VR headsets are gaining reaction thanks to many technological innovations, such as hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and wireless streaming, which benefit business and consumer end-users. VITURE also debuted a new device at CES 2022.

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2022

The headset apparently has 14 cameras in total when including those used for passthrough, positional tracking, eye tracking, face tracking, hand tracking, and body tracking – causing “headaches” for hardware and algorithm engineers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

UploadVR had the chance to try an prototype of the Linq at our offices in San Francisco and we found the hardware to an impressive proof-of-concept. The inside-out positional tracking on the Linq prototype worked better than their previous Gear VR + ZED camera combination. Linq’s system for hand tracking is also unique.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Hand Tracked Controls: Design and Implementation for Serious VR. October insanity might be over, but there’s no rest for the VR industry this week. November 3rd, 2:30pm.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Road To VR reported about Manus VR’s new Quantum Metagloves with very precise hand tracking for enterprise use (cost: $9000).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Next week, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) will be getting underway in San Francisco and this year’s show should be a big one for VR. Thanks to an early emphasis on room-scale VR and hand tracked controllers, the Vive has become the best selling PC-powered VR system on the market today, according to third party estimates.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We’ve joined forces with Qualcomm Technologies to combine their Snapdragon 835 mobile platform with our embedded hand tracking technology so that people can interact with mobile VR content using their bare hands. Your hands should be free to reach directly into #MobileVR.

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HaptX

JANUARY 19, 2021

HaptX Gloves also feature the industry’s strongest force feedback, with exotendons that apply up to 40 pounds of dynamic force feedback per hand (8 lbs./35 Finally, HaptX Gloves incorporate the most accurate hand tracking, a proprietary magnetic system which captures 30 degrees of freedom per hand with sub-millimeter precision.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. It showed me that virtual reality has only scratched the surface.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 28, 2015

Recently, we caught up with Vivid Vision co-founder James Blaha to ask him how he’s retraining people’s brains using VR and hand tracking technology. Using hand tracking, we can force people to judge depth with both eyes and reach out to exactly the distance they need to.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 26, 2016

The device has already been demonstrated at tradeshows as diverse as MWC in Barcelona and GDC in San Francisco, the company is now focusing on finalising a commercial product, one which they aim to bring to market for circa $300 per glove pair. As ever, we’ll remain open minded until we’ve had our hands in the Senso gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

We know mostly nothing about it, and we just have the image of its front view (semi-obscured) and the info that it will be revealed in San Francisco at Photonics West event. Devs are doing very interesting things with hands tracking for Quest. With mixed reality, it means that it should be able to do both AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

During my trip to San Francisco, I was surprised to see in every corner of the city ads about the Oculus Quest. The article details all the work done until now to create haptic gloves, an ongoing research that may need 10–15 years to produce something that could appeal to the mass market.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2024

The full body tracking was decent, but not perfect : on my body, I noticed that there was a little tracking lag. What I lacked the most was the use of my fingers: there were no gloves or hand tracking of any kind, so I could not move my fingers. For Italian standards, this is a bit too much.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

I could have gotten my flight much earlier, then had Uber or Lyft take me from San Francisco to San Jose. My bus pulled out at 12:40 pm Pacific time and my work stopped when the sun went down around 7:30 that night when my hand tracking failed in the unlit vehicle. A friend suggested I should have flown.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 29, 2016

We’ve listed the companies below, each of which will be joining the accelerator through one of the Beijing, San Francisco, or Taipei locations. Breqlabs : The company behind a pair of hand-tracked glove controllers which offer force feedback.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

My review of Google Hand tracking library. Last week, Google has released an opensource library for hand tracking on mobile devices based on its MediaPipe framework. VRX is a very interesting virtual reality event that will take place in San Francisco, from 12th to 13th December. >> More info.

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