Oculus buying ‘virtual hands’ tech is cool but we still don’t know how many people really want VR

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by Sindy Cator on July 17, 2015 at 9:45 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

Facebook’s Oculus VR has bought Pebbles Interfaces – an Israeli company behind some impressive 3D hand-sensing technology. Pebbles Interfaces has spent five years working on a way to make human interactions with devices like the Oculus headset intuitive and an extension of human behaviour. Its advanced algorithms and hardware that tracks hand gestures using structured light will be very important when combined with Oculus’ technology in defining augmented and virtual reality. The Oculus headset is designed to give users an immersive experience, whatever it’s being used for, and being able to do that without the use of an external controller would be…