Mastodawn

📣 This solo developer who currently works at Pixar as a Technical Director is building a VR rhythm game called Sock Puppet Superstar for Quest as an indie project, and over the last week he has been going viral on TikTok!

🤖Features/Tech:
- Using Unity, OpenXR, hand tracking, and a custom voice synthesizer built in FMOD
- Raise and lower your puppet to control the pitch
- Works with hand tracking or controllers
- Customize your sock puppet with colors, fabrics, accessories, and voices

📌 Devs can achieve this using the Meta XR Interaction SDK or Unity XR Toolkit (XR Hands) to add full hand support like what’s shown here.

🚀 Share this to give this solo indie dev more visibility! I’ll continue this bi-weekly with more indie devs who deserve the amplification!

📌Check out the game and wishlist it at: https://www.meta.com/experiences/sock-puppet-superstar/26292615863707429/

#developers #meta #vr #handtracking

sayzard Apr 13

AA (@measure_plan)

Depth Anything V2를 추가해 3D 손 추적 템플릿을 개선하고, MediaPipe로 X/Y 이동을, Depth Anything으로 Z 이동을 추정해 웹캠 하나로 Three.js 씬을 실시간 제어하는 사례가 공유됐다. 컴퓨터 비전과 3D 인터랙션을 결합한 흥미로운 AI 활용이다.

https://x.com/measure_plan/status/2043780229416583339

#depthanythingv2 #mediapipe #computervision #threejs #handtracking

AA (@measure_plan) on X

improving my 3D hand tracking template by adding depth-anything-v2 using mediapipe for X/Y movement and depth-anything for Z movement here i'm controlling a threejs scene in realtime with input from a single webcam

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Hacker News Apr 9

Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands

https://sanderdesnaijer.github.io/map-gesture-controls/

#HackerNews #MapGestureControls #GestureTechnology #InteractiveMaps #HandTracking #Innovation

Map Gesture Controls - Hand Gesture Navigation for OpenLayers, Google Maps, and Leaflet

Control OpenLayers, Google Maps, and Leaflet with hand gestures using your webcam. Browser-native, privacy-first, powered by MediaPipe.

Map Gesture Controls

NewsletterTF Apr 2

Snap Unveils Granular Hand Tracking for AR Experiences

Snap's Lens Studio now offers precise hand tracking for AR. Developers can control individual finger joints for better games and apps. This starts in 2024.

#AR #LensStudio #SnapchatAR #HandTracking #AugmentedReality

https://newsletter.tf/snap-lens-studio-detailed-hand-tracking-ar/

NewsletterTF Apr 2

Snap's new AR tools let you control games with exact finger movements, like moving a virtual object with just your thumb tip. This is much more detailed than before.

#AR #LensStudio #SnapchatAR #HandTracking #AugmentedReality
https://newsletter.tf/snap-lens-studio-detailed-hand-tracking-ar/

Snap Lens Studio Adds Detailed Hand Tracking for New AR Games in 2024

Snap's Lens Studio now offers precise hand tracking for AR. Developers can control individual finger joints for better games and apps. This starts in 2024.

NewsletterTF

PsychoticSheep Mar 11

Hand Tracking with MediaPipe (Task API)

Real-time hand tracking using the MediaPipe Task API and a TensorFlow Lite model.
The 21 hand landmark points are detected live and displayed as a skeleton. I used my old PlayStation 2 EyeToy camera with a resolution of 640×480 px.

Such systems can be used for gesture control, motion capturing, VR/AR interaction, touch-free interfaces, robotics interfaces, or even for computer games and creative projects.

Similar techniques can be used to implement other forms of computer vision, such as face or eye tracking, by using the corresponding model instead of the hand model.

Video workflow:

- Recorded with OBS
- Edited in Kdenlive
- Transcoded with VAAPI (H.264)

Everything runs on Linux + Python (FOSS), so anyone can set this up.

Background music: Kenke - Counting Stars (Rock Version) [Nightcore] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OwQo225cI)

#ComputerVision #MediaPipe #MachineLearning #HandTracking #Python #Linux #OpenSource #RetroTech #EyeToy

Home [Unofficial]Feb 25

Evangelion: Δ Cross Reflections, il nuovo gioco XR punta tutto sul tracciamento delle mani

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.galaxyaddicted.it/2026/02/evangelion-delta-cross-reflections-xr-hand-tracking/

Metaverse 💞 beyond.pictures Feb 25

Evangelion VR game will primarily use hand-tracking: The upcoming EVANGELION: Delta Cross Reflections at the 30th Anniversary event in Tokyo features controller-free interaction, allowing players to perform all actions using hand and finger movements. The three-part series begins in 2026. https://www.roadtovr.com/evangelion-vr-game-hand-tracking-release/ #Metaverse #VR #AR #Gaming #HandTracking

'Evangelion' VR Game Will Primarily Use Hand-tracking, Increasing Ease-of-use at Cost of Interaction Fidelity

At the Neon Genesis Evangelion 30th Anniversary event in Tokyo this weekend, Pixelity showed off its upcoming XR game EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS, revealing it’s going all-in on hand-tracking. The News On stage at the event, game director MK Choi gave a quick overview of the game, noting that Evangelion: Cross Reflections will feature “controller-free interaction, utilizing hand-tracking technology that allows …

Road to VR

Home [Unofficial]Feb 5

Meta Quest v85 introduce la Surface Keyboard: digitare su qualsiasi superficie ora è possibile

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.galaxyaddicted.it/2026/02/meta-quest-v85-surface-keyboard/

sayzard Jan 21

galal (@hololux)

글로벌 최초로 안경 없이(글래스프리) 작동하고 핸드 트래킹을 지원하는 언리얼 엔진 5 기반 의료 영상 뷰어를 환자 교육용으로 개발 중이라는 내용입니다. 개발자는 현재 솔로 개발자로서 이 서비스를 운영하는 데 월 1,200달러 이상 비용이 든다고 언급했습니다.

https://x.com/hololux/status/2013597949876482210

#unrealengine #medicalimaging #handtracking #spatialcomputing

galal (@hololux) on X

@alexocheema @forgebitz building world’s first glasses-free, hand tracked, unreal engine 5 medical imaging viewer for patient education costing more than $1200 a month right now as solo dev

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