Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated a practical system for full-body tracking in VR using cameras mounted on the controllers to get a better view of the user’s body. Although ...

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Adding to the cost and complexity of VR has been the need for fixed external sensors to enable positional tracking. Oculus Rift uses one small sensor for human-scale tracking, while the Vive relies on ...

In most body-movement-tracking VR systems, users have to wear sensors on various parts of their body, and/or they must remain within the confines of a base station. The free-roaming Surplex system, ...

Meta Reality Labs is making big strides in avatar rendering with the latest advances combining machine learning (ML) with sensor data from Quest VR headsets to show your full body, including arms, ...

PSVR 2 is something that many gamers have had their eyes on since it was first discussed back in 2019. Since then, news has either been leaking out on the product through the internet, or Sony itself ...

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.

All indicators suggest that VR is moving to eye tracking. Pico's standalone VR headset is where headsets like the Oculus Quest could go next. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I ...

Apple's long-rumored augmented reality or virtual reality headset could offer eye tracking as part of its control system, with the iPhone maker coming up with a way to make such a gaze-tracking system ...

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