I suppose it shouldn't be a huge surprise then that my hand tracking demo, produced by Magnopus, placed me right in the middle of a witch's lair. Once the experience launched, I just had to lift my ...

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 ...

There are many components to a fully realized virtual reality experience. The visual aspect is obviously the most important piece of the puzzle, but it's far from the only one. Accurate hand tracking ...

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This is where it’s about to get a bit more technical… buckle up! We’re currently using Unreal Engine 4.27.2 for Myst. Meta has some base code for hand tracking in Unreal—but not enough for a game like ...

The Oculus Rift, Facebook’s cord-free VR headset that starts at just $400, is getting a couple of new features over the next year. I had the opportunity to check out what might be the coolest one: ...

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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 ...

Owners of the Oculus Quest virtual reality headset — the stand-alone hardware that we called “the best value in VR currently on the market” — are getting hand-tracking support this week, Oculus ...

After years of development kits and prototype demos, Oculus finally launched the first consumer version of its Rift VR headset in March. But even as a real product that people could purchase, the ...

Oculus VR has announced that it has acquired Nimble VR, a two-year-old startup whose claim to fame is a depth-sensing camera that can track the hands' movements and use them as virtual reality (VR) ...

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