Unity brings platform-agnostic hand tracking for VR developers - MIXED Reality News

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An hold for the Unity motor allows the implementation of manus tracking connected hardware including Meta Quest via OpenXR.

Developers utilizing the Unity motor for manus tracking successful virtual world person a caller option. The “XR Hands” package enables entree to hand-tracking information according to the OpenXR standard. Meta Quest (2 & Pro) and Microsoft’s Hololens 2 are supported truthful far, and different OpenXR platforms with manus tracking are to follow.

In the lawsuit of the Quest 2 (review), developers nary longer request Meta’s OpenXR backend for manus tracking. The erstwhile Oculus integration was based connected OpenXR but utilized a proprietary hold and a antithetic associated statement than the standard.

OpenXR manus tracking for Quest (2 & Pro) and Hololens

The “XR Hands” bundle relies wholly connected OpenXR and is truthful compatible with Unity packages like the “XR Interaction Toolkit“. So far, “XR Hands” is inactive successful pre-release mentation 1.1 for OpenXR.

Interested parties should adhd the bundle manually to the project’s manifest. The bundle does not instrumentality manus tracking, explains VR developer Dilmer Valecillos. Instead, it relies connected appropriately updated plug-ins.

Unity’s Staff Research Engineer Eric Provencher points retired that an update to OpenXR 1.6.0 would besides beryllium useful. He besides reminds developers that immoderate hand-tracking extensions should beryllium activated successful the OpenXR menu.

Hand Tracking 2.1 for Quest (2 & Pro)

Meta has besides precocious noticed advancement successful manus tracking with Quest headsets. The proprietary programming interface successful mentation 2.1 reportedly suffers from little predominant tracking crashes. The bundle besides finds the “lost” manus faster aft a tracking loss.

There are besides improvements successful precision, presumption prediction, and the pinch gesture. Hand Tracking 2.1 was introduced with Quest System Update v47. Supported applications should automatically payment from the improvements, Meta said.

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