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We ALL need a 3D rigged and animated arm and hand!
Of course one of the biggest topics of design discussion with the rift is the importance of hand eye coordination and how it is missing the "hand" aspect by default. There are a lot of great and v...
I feel a simple camera attached to the Oculus Rift that tracks arm, hand & fingers would be really useful. This could then animate an avatar hand. Leap Motion is moving in the the right direction but suffers from a relatively low field of view.
I hope that the new Kinect camera will pick up better hand gestures.
As for Unity & hand gestures... check out this little video I made ( Oculus Rift + Razer Hydra ) the I.K was a simple script I downloaded for free from the Unity3D Wiki site. note: the 2nd video of a bat & ball utilises the I.K arm.
As you can see in the video the fingers don;t exactly wrap around the handle... this could be adjusted to accommodate object shapes but I was simply testing I.K arms attached to the Tuscany demo hands..
I hope that the new Kinect camera will pick up better hand gestures.
As for Unity & hand gestures... check out this little video I made ( Oculus Rift + Razer Hydra ) the I.K was a simple script I downloaded for free from the Unity3D Wiki site. note: the 2nd video of a bat & ball utilises the I.K arm.
As you can see in the video the fingers don;t exactly wrap around the handle... this could be adjusted to accommodate object shapes but I was simply testing I.K arms attached to the Tuscany demo hands..