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by melling 4194 days ago
The arrival of hand tracking will help make VR headsets a lot more interesting. Leap Motion has a VR attachment: https://www.leapmotion.com/product/vr

Here's a sensor based product: http://controlvr.com

Finally, the Nimble VR Kickstarter project got acquired by Oculus even before funding was finished:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nimblevr/nimble-sense-b...

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We are a startup [1] working in this space (hand tracking) for some time and it's been an interesting experience. Most of the hand tracking is done either using cameras (vision/image-based) or sensors (gyros/accelerometers).

Leap Motion is already developing a product similar to Nimble VR. Control VR intrigues me but my gut feeling is it'll be a while before their products are available on the market (see Myo band for example, it took a while for them to fulfill the orders and the product still has some issues based on the last hackathon I attended)[2]. Regardless, it's an exciting area (bit niche) but hopefully there will be a solution soon.

[1]http://www.breqlabs.com

[2]http://www.betakit.com/team-raisins-wins-sportshack-2014-tor...