This Upcoming VR Game Lets You Control Shadows

Silhouette arrives on Quest 2 and Quest Pro headsets later this month. Silhouette is a VR adventure puzzler for Meta Quest headsets that allows you to manipulate shadows with your bare hands. Developed by Team Panoptes, the same company behind Panoptic, this single-player experience tasks you with guiding tiny shadow creatures, referred to as “Shadowies,” […]

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VRScout & Kyle Melnick

20. Januar 2023
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 VR game that’s built from the ground-up for hand tracking interactions. The studio calls the unnamed multiplayer title their “most ambitious” project yet, underlining that the addition of hand tracking provides an “unprecedented level of communication” between […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

24. August 2022
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 VR game that’s built from the ground-up for hand tracking interactions. The studio calls the unnamed multiplayer title their “most ambitious” project yet, underlining that the addition of hand tracking provides an “unprecedented level of communication” between […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

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 VR game that’s built from the ground-up for hand tracking interactions. The studio calls the unnamed multiplayer title their “most ambitious” project yet, underlining that the addition of hand tracking provides an “unprecedented level of communication” between […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

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 hand-tracking tools. Controllerless hand-tracking has been available on Quest for years at this point, and while it’s a more accessible input modality than using controllers, controllers are still the main form […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

5. August 2022
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 the tech ahead of time, some of which used it to directly improve their apps. The new and improved Quest 2 hand-tracking is said to have begun rolling out this week. […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

21. April 2022
“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 improve reliability for overlapping or fast moving hands and specific gestures. The SDK and OS update to enable these improved capabilities will begin rolling out today. Meta first introduced controllerless hand-tracking […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

19. April 2022
This Bizarre Controller Would Make Drinking In VR Easier

Don’t hold my beer… We’ve all been there. You’re in the middle of a great VR session and you’re feeling parched from all of the jumping, ducking, arm-swinging you’ve been doing. Or maybe you’re just chillin’ with some friends in AltSpaceVR having a wine social and it’s time to take a sip of that delicious […]

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VRScout & Bobby Carlton

27. März 2022
VR Sci-fi Shooter Turns Your Hands Into Laser Cannons

Rogue Ascent VR is available free on Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2 headsets via SideQuest. Rogue Ascent VR is a killer-looking VR shooter that makes use of Quest hand-tracking technology to immerse you in a sci-fi adventure where you use your bare hands to blast your way through multiple action-packed levels. Like other games […]

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VRScout & Bobby Carlton

21. Februar 2022
Leading Hand-tracking Company Ultraleap Raises $82 Million Investment
Ultraleap, a leading company focused on hand-tracking interfaces, this week announced it has secured a £60 million (~$82 million) Series D investment, with the goal of expanding its hand-tracking and mid-air haptic tech in the XR space and beyond. Formerly known as Ultrahaptics, Ultraleap was formed after the UK-based haptics company acquired leading hand-tracking company Leap […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

19. November 2021