hand tracking
Meta Shows Off Quest Hand-tracking Improvements, Claims “almost as responsive as controllers”
Apple is going all-in with hand-tracking for its upcoming Vision Pro, but can hand-tracking really replace proper VR controllers?...
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...
Google’s Owlchemy Labs Teases Its First Multiplayer VR Game & It’s All About Hand Tracking
Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio known for Job Simulator (2016) and Cosmosmious High (2022), teased a new multiplayer...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
