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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 ...

Oculus Quest owners are going to be able to do a lot more with their hands in the coming months. The first third-party games allowing players to interact with virtual worlds without using controllers ...

It's been nearly three years since hand tracking first came to the original Oculus Quest VR headset, but the second generation of the feature has so far been limited to the Meta Quest 2 (formerly ...

Meta has released a new upgrade for the Oculus Quest 2. The social media company which recently dived into the metaverse has rolled out the hand tracking update for its VR wearable. The mixed-reality ...

A couple of weeks ago, Qualcomm and Ultraleap announced a multi-year deal that would see Ultraleap's hand-tracking technology integrated into Qualcomm's XR2 extended reality platform. We guessed that ...

A video teaser popped up for a VR game on Oculus Quest that uses controller-free hand-tracking for a familiar musical experience similar to Rock Band and Guitar Hero. And it already carries the ...

Oculus Quest hand tracking is now generally available. Hand tracking has been an experimental feature for a year. Third-party games can include hand tracking starting on May 28, 2020. Oculus announced ...

In context: Oculus has been internally beta testing hand tracking for its wireless Quest headset. It also released an SDK to allow developers to play with the technology. Up until now, the feature was ...

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