hand tracking
New Leap Motion 2 Brings High-end Hand-tracking to Standalone Headsets
10 years after the launch of Leap Motion—which garnered praise for offering some of the best hand-tracking in the industry—the company has announced a...
Google’s Owlchemy Labs Teases Its First Multiplayer VR Game & It’s All About Hand...
Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio known for Job Simulator (2016) and Cosmosmious High (2022), teased a new multiplayer VR game that's built from...
Meta Releases ‘First Hand’ Demo to Showcase Quest Hand-tracking to Developers
Meta this week released a new demo app called First Hand to showcase the kind of experiences that developers can build with the company's controllerless...
Four Quest 2 Apps Making Use of Hand-tracking 2.0 Improvements
Alongside the announcement that Quest 2 is getting upgraded controllerless hand-tracking which improves robustness, Meta revealed that it had given select developers access to...
“Major improvements” Coming to Quest 2 Hand-tracking with ‘2.0’ Upgrade
Meta today announced "major improvements" coming to Quest 2's controllerless hand-tracking capability. The 're-architected computer vision and machine learning approach' is said to specifically...
Case Study: The Design Behind ‘Cubism’s’ Hand-tracking
Hand tracking first became available on the Oculus Quest back in late 2019. Out of enthusiasm for this new input method, I published a...
Hand-tracking Game ‘Hand Physics Lab’ for Quest Releasing April 1st, Trailer Here
Both Oculus Quest and Quest 2 have the ability to track your hands, but precious few games have integrated the tech. Now, indie developer...
Ultraleap’s New ‘Gemini’ Software Overhaul Drastically Improves Two-handed Interactions
Ultraleap, the company behind the Leap Motion hand-tracking controller, has released a Developer Preview of its hand-tracking engine Gemini. By many accounts, Ultraleap's latest...
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...
Qualcomm Signs “Multi-year” Deal to Bring Ultraleap Hand-tracking to XR2 Headsets
Qualcomm and Ultraleap today announced a "multi-year co-operation agreement" that will bring Ultraleap's controllerless hand-tracking tech (formerly of Leap Motion) to XR headsets based...
Dev Tool Uses Quest Hand-tracking to Quickly Model Realistic Hand Poses for VR
Grabbing objects in VR may be one of the medium's most fundamental interactions, but making it work well isn't as easy as you might...
Quest Hand-tracking Graduates From Beta, Third-party Apps Launch Next Week
Facebook introduced controllerless hand-tracking in beta on Oculus Quest late last year and it has remained an "experimental" feature ever since. This week the...
Miniature ‘Beat Saber’ Concept Offers a Peek into the Future of AR Games
Oculus released optical hand-tracking on Quest as an experimental feature late last year, and ever since developers have been showing off their own unique and...
Oculus ‘Designing for Hands’ Document Introduces Best Practices for Quest Hand-tracking
Hand-tracking on Quest rolled out as an experimental feature in late 2019, but Oculus is letting it gestate before it will accept third-party apps...
Three Totally Creative Uses of Quest Hand-tracking
Oculus brought controllerless hand-tracking to Oculus Quest as an experimental feature back in December, and while it's useful for navigating around the headset's menus...
