After working on it for a while, Collabora developer Moses Turner has announced that their "Mercury" hand-tracking for Monado, their open source XR runtime, is now ready for use.
Since it's been a while after last talking about Monado: "Monado is an open source XR runtime delivering immersive experiences such as VR and AR on mobile, PC/desktop, and other devices. Monado aims to be a complete and conformant implementation of the OpenXR API made by Khronos. The project is currently being developed for GNU/Linux and aims to support other operating systems such as Windows in the near future."
Work on the hand-tracking system has been going for over a year, and now ready for public use. Currently it works on the Valve Index, Windows Mixed Reality headsets (Reverb G2 v2 video below), Oculus Rift S (early support), and Luxonis cameras (video shows a OAK-D Pro W Dev mounted on a North Star). They said it "estimates hand pose accurately, supports limited hand-over-hand interactions, tracks fast hand movements, and is useable for drawing, typing and UI interaction".
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Makes me continue to wonder if Valve will be using Monado for the long rumoured Deckard VR HMD.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
https://developer.leapmotion.com/northstar
This looks incredible though, and I do especially like the idea of a Northstar mixed-reality headset, instead of the more fully immersive VR experience. Obviously they do very different things, of course.
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