Shock rippled across AR in 2025. The surprise announcement that Meta will acquire Singapore-founded startup Manus on Dec 29, ...

Ditch the DualSense. Use your hands. The PlayStation 5’s VR peripheral might receive a new notable update focusing on your hands. This potential update will allow players to use their hands instead of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excitement around Dec 2025 demos surged. The hands-on reveals from Google and Xreal this week matter because they mark the first public demo of a ...

Leap Motion suggested years ago that it was working to bring real-time hand tracking to mobile devices — an innovation with obvious applications for virtual and augmented reality headsets, which it ...

MMORPGs and Virtual Reality games have one major thing in common: they transport us to new worlds. VR does this by tricking yourself that you are physically in a new space, while MMORPGs do it through ...

Hand tracking first became available on the Oculus Quest back in late 2019. Out of enthusiasm for this new input method, I published a demo of Cubism to SideQuest with experimental hand tracking ...

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, ...

Earlier this month Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) published a paper, with an accompanying video, about the real-time tracking of human hands. Hand tracking for VR is expected to make a major difference ...