Usens raises $20 million for mobile AR and VR hand-and-head tracking

Usens has raised $20 million to develop natural hand and head tracking for augmented reality and virtual reality applications. The company is built around the idea that once you immerse yourself in a virtual world, the next thing you want to do is interact with it using your hands and have it track your head movements accurately.

The investment will help the company launch its inside-out 26DOF (degrees of freedom) hand-tracking and 6DOF head-tracking tools for VR and AR. The tools let developers create more natural interactions in AR and VR without relying on wired controllers or cumbersome peripherals. It’s all about making AR and VR more fun and useful, and helping it on its way to fulfilling predictions that it could be a $120 billion industry by 2020.