Road to VR

Facebook Develops Hand Tracking Method to Touch Type in VR Without a Keyboard

Some of the most basic questions surrounding AR/VR tech aren’t entirely solved yet, like making text input a fast, comfortable, and familiar experience. Facebook’s Reality Labs (FRL) today revealed ...
Road to VR

‘Evangelion’ VR Game Will Primarily Use Hand-tracking, Increasing Ease-of-use at Cost of Interaction Fidelity

At the Neon Genesis Evangelion 30th Anniversary event in Tokyo this weekend, Pixelity showed off its upcoming XR ...
Ars Technica

Surprise! Oculus Quest becomes first VR set with native hand tracking—this week

Starting this week, the Oculus Quest VR headset becomes even more tantalizing by adding a feature we’ve never seen ship as a built-in option in a VR system: hand tracking. VR users will be able to put ...
New Atlas

AR and VR hand tracking with just a smartphone camera: ManoMotion SDK points to the future

At some point in the evolution of VR and AR, controllers will fade away and the headsets themselves will have sensors that track our bare hands in what's essentially real time. One firm already has an ...
Forbes

VR Hand Tracking May Be Coming To The Rift S After ‘Feedback From Quest’

When Oculus announced that controller-less hand tracking would be coming to the Oculus Quest at this year’s Oculus Connect 6 event, the VR community was outraged that its sibling, the Rift S, wouldn’t ...
New Atlas

Oculus Quest can now give you beautifully tracked virtual hands in VR

The Oculus Quest is an extraordinary, standalone virtual reality device that needs no wires, no high-end gaming PCs and no wall-mounted tracking cameras. I'm a big fan of this zero-barrier-to-entry VR ...
VentureBeat

Usens raises $20 million for mobile AR and VR hand-and-head tracking

GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco. Register Now Usens has raised $20 million to ...
Shacknews

Hand tracking coming to Oculus Quest in early 2020

Hand tracking is coming to Oculus Quest in early 2020, as announced at the Oculus Connect 6 Day One keynote live stream. Hand tracking coming to Oculus Quest is a big step in the right direction, as ...
Engadget

Quest headset apps now support hand clapping and high-fives

Meta's VR hand tracking has come a long way in two years. The company has upgraded its Presence Platform hand tracking support for Quest headset apps to allow considerably more natural gestures, ...
SiliconANGLE

Leap Motion raises $50M to advance its VR/AR hand tracking technology

Hoping to jumpstart commercial and enterprise use of its hand tracking technology, high-profile startup Leap Motion Inc. has raised $50 million in a later-stage round. Founded in 2010, Leap Motion is ...
Shacknews

HTC demos Vive Pro VR hand tracking with no third party peripheral

We may already be getting a glimpse at future VR tech that removes the need for a controller for interaction. This past week, HTC demonstrated full hand tracking on an HTC Pro with no need for a third ...