Infuse VR: Mixed Reality Hand-Tracking in VR Racing
Extended Reality | Games
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When driving, it's natural to see the view ahead, the steering wheel, your own hands, and even the beverage placed beside you. However, in virtual environments, there's always a trade-off.
Infuse VR has developed a solution to this challenge by visualizing hands and accessories within the mixed reality environment, cleverly bridging the gap between the virtual and the real world. This allows you to bring all the expensive gear you've purchased into the cockpit with you in your VR racing game.
Want to bring all your real-world furniture into your VR games? (Source: Tima Miroshnichenko)
Thanks to advancements in gesture tracking and mixed reality technologies, Infuse VR can precisely track the player's hand movements and the position of physical accessories through the cameras on the VR headset, rendering them in real-time within the VR environment.
This means that when you're driving in a VR racing game, you can not only see the track ahead but also your actual steering wheel (finally, you can see the buttons on it), and more importantly, your own 'real' hands with hand tracking (not just the default pair that seems glued to the wheel). You can also incorporate more accessories into the virtual environment, such as the clutch pedal, handbrake, and even the gear shift. Naturally, this also applies to VR flight simulation games. This design greatly enhances the convenience and immersion of the game, allowing players to enjoy a driving experience that's close to reality, even in the virtual world.
Infuse VR utilizes ALVR streaming and supports most mainstream VR headsets, including VIVE Focus 3, VIVE XR Elite, Quest series, Pico 4/Neo 3, and more. To meet the needs of different levels of players, Infuse VR will offer both a free and a professional version. The free version provides players with basic hand tracking and one accessory visualization, while the professional version supports more accessories and offers a richer array of customization options, such as changing the colors of the accessories.
Infuse VR is currently in testing, and interested players are welcome to give it a try.
