Apple is going all-in with hand-tracking for its upcoming Vision Pro, but can hand-tracking really replace proper VR controllers? Meta, Apple’s main competitor in the space, isn’t going so far as to ...

Hand-tracking now activates automatically on Oculus Quest when you aren’t using the Touch controllers. The feature is the biggest change in the new v13 software update to Quest headsets, which is ...

Surprise! Oculus is launching full, controller-free hand tracking for the Oculus Quest a few months earlier than initially anticipated: this week. While the developer SDK to integrate it into games ...

The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity adds the Quest’s controller-free hand-tracking to the editor. Facebook added experimental controller-free hand-tracking for Quest in December. It ...

A full day with Oculus Touch proves good virtual hands are worth the wait. SAN JOSE—We’ve had a couple of chances to try out Oculus’ hand-tracking Touch controllers in the last few years, but they’ve ...

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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 ...

Meta Quest games that primarily use hand tracking are extremely cool, there's no doubt about it. Being able to interact with a virtual world using your actual hands feels like something out of a ...

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 ...

Sony introduced controller-free hand tracking for PS VR2 at Siggraph Asia 2024, demoing it with a cleaning mini-game. The technology tracks hand movements at 60 fps and can recognize 12 gestures, ...

Sony is making strides in the world of VR gaming by launching controller-free hand tracking on the PlayStation VR2 announced at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024. During the event, the video game giant says that the ...

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