![]() ![]() While hand tracking is possible, I asked Oculus CTO John Carmack earlier today whether the new Gear VR can pass through data to a PC - potentially allowing people to hook it up to a computer at high speeds for interesting use cases. “Android continues to be a focus for us.” “We’re testing with many headsets,” the Leap Motion spokesperson wrote. ![]() When used right, hand tracking can only make VR more intuitive and available to a larger set of people. In fact, I’ve had people pull off the Gear VR because they were uncomfortable holding a traditional gamepad. Hand tracking, however, can have a powerful effect on immersion. After years of putting people through countless VR demos it gets old seeing them immediately looking for their hands in VR and seeing nothing. That’s a huge step up in immersion from the gamepad or touchpad used for the Gear VR since it launched. Google’s Daydream VR platform is ready to debut soon and it features a basic motion controller. The company’s impressive “ Orion” software update earlier this year brought huge updates to accuracy, making the technology more usable. The company has been offering an $80 sensor which either sits on your desk or mounts to a VR headset to recognize hand and finger movements. That software development kit is currently in “private alpha” with more information coming later this year, according to Leap Motion. “But, you’d also need our Android SDK in order to make it work.” “Yes, now that the new USB connector offers data transfer, you can plug a Leap Motion peripheral into the port,” a Leap Motion spokesperson wrote in an email in response to a question about USB-C and the new Gear VR. It’s sounding like hand tracking is going to be possible with Gear VR. One of the big new features of the Samsung Note 7 and its new Gear VR is USB-C - the new standard that’s not only easier to connect because the plug is reversible, but can be used to communicate data with external devices like a thumb drive.Īnd it also should be capable of working with Leap Motion’s impressive hand tracking technology. ![]()
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