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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Picture indicating where you’d like to go. You likely thought of pointing, right? That’s why we opted to use a ‘pointing’ method for movement in Myst. When you’re in teleport mode, you can point to ...

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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 ...

A promised hand-tracking feature for the VR headset arrived a lot earlier than expected, with more app support coming in 2020. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable ...

Footage from the Siggraph Asia 2024 computer graphics conference has offered us our first glimpse at PSVR 2‘s controller-free hand tracking ability. The demo sees the user taking part in a cleaning ...

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 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 ...