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According to a post on X by @Luckyballa, the recently released FAH hand-tracking model has been ported to plain Metal on Apple silicon. The post says the linked repo lists 115–234 fps on M5, with output that includes 2D/3D keypoints, MANO mesh and hand-object contact estimation. The post is mainly a video, so the performance figures come from the repo and have not been independently checked.
According to a post on X by @Luckyballa, the recently released FAH hand-tracking model has been ported to plain Metal on Apple silicon. The post says the linked repo lists 115–234 fps on M5, with output that includes 2D/3D keypoints, MANO mesh and hand-object contact estimation. The post is mainly a video, so the performance figures come from the repo and have not been independently checked.
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@Luckyballa ported the recently released FAH hand-tracking model, which estimates 2D/3D keypoints, meshes and hand-object contact, to plain Metal on Apple silicon. The repo lists 115–234 fps on M5 with MANO mesh and contact output. The post is mainly a video. Why it matters: Fast on-device hand tracking matters...
The post argues that fast on-device hand tracking is useful for robotics data capture and spatial interfaces without a GPU server. For developers on Apple hardware, this suggests hand tracking could run locally on a laptop instead of a separate server. Readers should watch for the repo's benchmark details and whether the performance holds outside the demo video.
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