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HTC plant Hand- und Fingertracking für Vive Pro

Die VR-Brille HTC Vive Pro ist seit einiger Zeit zu einem recht ambitionierten Preis auf dem Markt. Ein neu angekündigtes Feature für das Headset könnte potentiellen Kunden nun einen neuen Kaufanreiz bieten. Auf der World Conference on VR Industry, die derzeit in China stattfindet, verriet HTC nämlich, dass die Vive Pro künftig Hand- und Fingertracking unterstützen soll.

Dafür will HTC die beiden Frontkameras des Headsets einsetzen. Die Idee ist dabei gar nicht mal neu: Bereits im Januar 2018 nutzten Drittentwickler das damals erhältliche Vive Pro-Devkit der Kameras für rudimentäres Handtracking. Wann die offizielle Lösung, die auch einzelne Finger nachverfolgen kann, veröffentlicht wird, ist noch unklar. Laut HTC soll es aber „bald“ soweit sein.


Today at the the World Conference on VR Industry in China, HTC announced plans to bring hand & finger tracking to Vive Pro via the headset’s front-facing cameras.

Back in April HTC launched new tools to help developers take advantage of the Vive Pro’s largely unused front-facing cameras. Now it seems the company plans to double down on that by adding hand and finger tracking that works “natively” on the headset.

On the Vive Pro today, the system can understand the position of a user’s hands thanks to a pair of controllers which are tracked with external beacons. This new capability, which HTC demonstrated today at the WCVRI conference, enables hand-tracking without the need of the need of externally tracked controllers. HTC also indicates that the capability can track individual finger movements too.

Other companies like Leap Motion have developed similar technologies, employing computer vision processing to understand the position and movement of a user’s hands without any special gloves or attachments.

While highly interactive VR content benefits from the binary input capabilities and haptic feedback of controllers, hand tracking can sometimes be more immersive and intuitive, and may work well for certain situations where nothing more than ‘casual’ input is necessary.

HTC says that developer tools for the new feature will be made available soon to registered Viveport developers.

Quelle:

https://vr-world.com

HTC Plans to Bring Hand & Finger Tracking to Vive Pro

 

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