Make hand tracking a Frametop component

- Programs: ft-camd (the camera broker), ft-hands (the tracker), and
  ft-handreplay and ft-ringplay for recordings, built by hands/build.sh
  into hands/build/ with one Makefile. The first build fetches ncnn at
  frame-hands' pinned tag and builds it with the same options.
- ft-camd gets its privileges from file capabilities (CAP_SYS_PTRACE,
  CAP_PERFMON, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH) that hands/run.sh install sets with
  sudo, and drops them once set up. It still works under sudo. It runs
  on the host, linked statically, as frametop-camd.service. ft-hands
  runs in the dev container as frametop-hands.service. Both start and
  stop with SteamVR.
- Files move to /run/user/UID/frametop/ (cam-ring, hands, gestures),
  not $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, which a terminal in the Frametop desktop has
  its own of. SIGUSR1 recordings go to ~/.local/share/frametop/hands.
- The calibration is read through /run/host in the container.
- Settings: HANDS_SWAP_SIDES and HANDS_CPUS in frametop.conf.
- install.sh offers hand tracking as an optional last step.
- The container gets jsoncpp-devel, glibc-static, and NumPy and OpenCV
  for the Python tools.
- tools/ring.py reads the ring, and models/NOTICE credits the
  Apache-2.0 models.

Checked: ft-handreplay gives identical summaries and byte-identical
depth dumps to frame-hands' fh-replay on both 2026-09-29 recordings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Hand tracking (experimental)
Your hands show over the screens: where a tracked hand is between an eye and a screen, ft-screens lets that eye see the room through the screen. The same tracker also detects pinches, for clicking where you look with the gaze pointer (not wired to the pointer yet). It's optional: `hands/run.sh install`, or the last step of `install.sh`.
- `ft-camd` borrows XRService's camera buffers and publishes the four IR tracking cameras to `/run/user/UID/frametop/cam-ring`. It runs on the host as `frametop-camd.service`, with file capabilities that `hands/run.sh install` sets through sudo, and it drops them once set up. A rebuild clears them: `hands/run.sh caps`.
- `ft-hands` runs in the `dev` container as `frametop-hands.service`. It finds and triangulates the hands, and publishes `hands` (read by ft-screens' cutouts) and `gestures` (pinches) next to the ring.
- Both start and stop with SteamVR. `hands/run.sh status` and `hands/run.sh log` show how they're doing.
- Settings in `~/.config/frametop.conf`: `HANDS_SWAP_SIDES` (after some SteamVR restarts the side cameras' names come out swapped, and hands land beside the holes; `hands/tools/check_sides.py --ring` tells) and `HANDS_CPUS`.
Details, options, and the recording and replay tools are in [hands/README.md](../hands/README.md).
## Remote desktop over VNC
With `REMOTE=1` in the config (`desktops.sh remote on`), the desktop is also served over VNC, for RealVNC Viewer or macOS Screen Sharing. `desktops.sh remote info` prints the address and password.