Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Click To Tweet The Leap Motion Interaction Engine lets developers give their virtual objects the ability to be picked up, thrown, nudged, swatted, smooshed, or poked. Rapid Prototyping and Development at Leap Motion. A scene from last month’s Leap Motion internal hackathon.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Volkswagen Group is back again with yet another VR project that continues to prove just how much faith the German automaker truly has in the immersive medium. We’ve seen the company use the technology before on everything from collaborative group meetings between team members to a simulator that lets you drive an Audi in a sandbox track.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 21, 2017

strLast time, we looked at how an interactive VR sculpture could be created with the Leap Motion Graphic Renderer as part of an experiment in interaction design. The Leap Motion Interaction Engine provides the foundation for hand-centric VR interaction design. The initial function was a spherical layout function.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Click To Tweet When someone first puts on a Leap Motion-enabled VR headset, it often seems like they’re rediscovering how to use their own hands. Interacting with just the tip of a thumb on a small trackball, and a whole group spinning a Kugel Fountain. From Flat Screens to VR Interfaces. In a sense, they are.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 3, 2023

On the last day, I tried many interesting technologies, but I selected two for this summary, which are the first two that I’ve tried: the new Leap Motion Controller by Ultraleap and the AR technology by LetinAR. You can see how it is in this picture, where I’ve put my hand for scale.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Leap Motion is a young technology company that is perhaps best known at this point for what it sells at your local Best Buy. The presence of a Gear VR in the demo room is significant for Leap Motion. ” For Leap, this meant that heavy optimization would be required to get IR hand tracking to work on mobile devices.

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VRScout

AUGUST 7, 2019

This USB-C input can also be used to connect a variety of compatible controllers, including the Leap Motion tracker, Intel’s Realsense, even a Nintendo Joy-Con. Image Credit: VRScout.

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Leapmotion

JULY 11, 2019

In support of the event, our team donated Leap Motion Controllers. Our CTO David Holz and engineer/ AR tennis champion Jonathon Selstad joined the workshop, along with former Leap Motion engineer Adam Munich. He had experience building homebrew data gloves and mocap systems for years before discovering Leap Motion.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 10, 2017

The event’s three keynotes will be hosted by “Shots of Awe” filmmaker, philosopher and futurist Jason Silva , “The Fourth Transformation” author and Transformative Group partner Robert Scoble , and game designer, author and Carnegie Mellon scholar Jesse Schell.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Blocks – Leap Motion. Kiya – Emblematic Group. Rec Room – Against Gravity. Fantastic Contraption – Northway Games & Radial Games (Winner) . Most Innovative: Pixel Ripped 1989 – Pixel Ripped Inc. Tilt Brush – Google (Winner) . VR Noir: A Day Before the Night – StartVR. The Lab – Valve. Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Ultrahaptics went on to raise $23 million, begin to interest car companies , and later absorb the much-hyped Leap Motion, which, it turns out, was a match made in heaven, by uniting both hand tracking and mid-air haptics. Also participating were existing shareholders Mayfair Equity Partners and IP Group plc.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Ralph Breaks VR utilizes Leap Motion tracking devices mounted to the front of the headsets to capture each players hand movements. This makes sense considering the first objective tasked my group with correctly hand-selecting a constantly changing panel of buttons in order to fix.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Markers can be used to define where to show virtual elements, and in the demo that I tried were used to show virtual Chinese artworks in a room; Leap Motion device on Realmax glasses. RealMax can mount a Leap Motion device, so you have the power of using naturally your hands to interact with AR elements. I liked it a lot.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Developer group exiii shared their experience on their blog along with a build guide, which uses off-the-shelf components. Masahiro Yamaguchi (CEO, Psychic VR Lab), God Scorpion (Media artist, Psychic VR Lab), Keiichi Matsuda (VP Design, Leap Motion), Oda Yuda (Designer), Akihiro Fujii (CTO, Psychic VR Lab).

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 31, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’ve seen our fair share of impressive motion-controlled robots that will one day bring about the robocalypse. Future videos will demonstrate the laser system, sonar, visual system and face recognition, and the Leap Motion input – including a future “snapshot” gesture. Happy Halloween!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

All the people that were working on AR/VR inside Facebook now have a new group they belong to: “Facebook Reality Labs”. Ultraleap (previously known also as Leap Motion) has struck a great deal with Qualcomm. This was the previous name of the AR/VR research division guided by Abrash, that now gets rebranded as “FRL Research”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2020

I got an exclusive devkit before the lockdown, so let me tell you my impressions on them so that you can understand who of the above groups of people is correct. But… I have two big BUTs: Etee tries to mix the best of fingers tracking solutions like Leap Motion with the best of controllers like Oculus Touch.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

It is still not perfect ( Leap Motion is still more accurate), but surely it is a step forward from the Oculus Touch. SteamVR Skeletal input will abstract the actual controller used by the player (Oculus Touch, Knuckles, Leap Motion, etc…), giving the developer the best pose of the hand detectable with the actually used sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The more complex your application, the larger the user testing group you’ll need to make sure everything works as you’d expect. Test all of your gestures to make sure it accommodates all your user group. The image above is a Leap Motion hand-tracking demo. So you’ll need to be sure it works well for every user.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

They form part of the unofficial Leap Motion Jp developers group. Using the Leap Motion Controller, you can control your home appliances from one place in your home using hand gestures. Laser Tanks is an IoT robot game that uses the Leap Motion Controller for a realistic tank driver experience.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

He was able to follow build tutorials from Japanese dev group exiii , which include links to all the parts. The post How a Self-Taught Teen Built His Own North Star Headset appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. Coding “was kind of daunting at first, but it’s like learning a language. Once you pick it up it becomes part of you.”.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 30, 2016

And don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good in the world of VR. This one lets you try out Leap Motion controls as well as the usual position-tracked and gamepad options. Price: $5.99 (Rift).

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2017

Brandon Bray leads the Mixed Reality developer ecosystem, and Greg Sullivan is on the marketing team for the Windows & Devices Group. But I do have some concerns with their approach based upon my experiences with other line-of-sight controllers such as the Leap Motion.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 7, 2017

This week we hit the CES showfloor in Las Vegas with two missions: share our Mobile VR Platform with the world and play “spot Leap Motion in the wild.”. What is Leap Motion? With an embedded input solution, developers can know that 100% of users have access to Leap Motion interaction.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 1, 2016

In rebuilding our Unity developer toolset from the ground up , we started by rearchitecting the interfaces that receive data from the Leap Motion device. Moving up the tech stack, we then refactored most of the mid-level Unity scripts that pair the Leap hand data with 3D models and manages those representations.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 1, 2015

One of the best things about having our HQ nestled right in the heart of SOMA is that on any given night of the week, there’s always a new meetup group assembling to feast on the developer trifecta – pizza, beer, and ideas. The post 2014: A Year in Virtual Superlatives appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. It’s visually stunning.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

Some weeks ago, a group of 12 indie development studios decided to launch the first bundle dedicated to App Lab experiences for Oculus Quest. Then the group came together, and one of us quickly edited a draft trailer. Playing around with the Leap Motion interaction system. What are your future plans?

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

In order for students to think about how to create pieces of music and pieces of software, we enable groups to get together and make music as an ensemble. Using technology like the Leap Motion Controller allows us to use our hands to directly engage virtual instruments, from the plucking of a virtual string to the casting of a sonic fireball.

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Leapmotion

MAY 7, 2016

While working on demonstration projects here at Leap Motion, we’ve found ourselves wanting to use different sets of hands for a variety of reasons. Using the Debug hands in this way can be help for – wait for it – debugging your other hands to verify they’re lining up with Leap Motion data!

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2015

At expos like VRLA, I got to see what a powerful pairing the Leap Motion Controller and Oculus are and believe there is still so much left to explore!”. We started developing the game as seniors of Interactive Arts at MICA with the goal to simply create something fun and immersive using the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion.”. “In

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Petricore ( @Petricoregames ) is a game development company created in May by a group of Becker College graduates. We’ve worked with Leap Motion before, but we were surprised by how easy it was to integrate Leap Motion and Oculus and get started with development. Requires: Windows, Mac, Oculus Rift. Tatami Samurai.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 31, 2016

Baofeng Group, a Chinese mobile communications giant, announced their fifth generation VR headset, the Mojing 5.0, on stage today in Beijing, China. The post Baofeng Showcases Mobile VR Headset With Positional and Finger Tracking appeared first on UploadVR.

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Leapmotion

JULY 3, 2015

Hover VR interfaces use the Leap Motion Controller, providing hand-based interactions and strong sense of immersion in the virtual space. Each firework has two groups of settings (“A” and “B”) for customizing its stars, tails, and explosion patterns. How does it feel to be surrounded by fireworks? To use the menu interface?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 30, 2016

And don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group , complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good in the world of VR. This one lets you try out Leap Motion controls as well as the usual position-tracked and gamepad options. Price: $5.99 (Rift).

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 27, 2016

Interacting with Leap Motion. I chose to work with optical hand tracking using the Leap Motion Controller in order to perform gestures that were natural to our culture. Taking cues from the interior design concept of ‘vignettes,’ I grouped my environmental objects around each animal as a picture frame.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Blocks – Leap Motion. Kiya – Emblematic Group. SEE ALSO Hands On: The Martian VR Experience is a Triumph in Motion. SEE ALSO Open-world Building and Minimalist Game Design with Fantastic Contraption. Most Innovative: Tilt Brush – Google (Winner). Pixel Ripped 1989 – Pixel Ripped Inc. The Lab – Valve. Knives – Adam Cosco.

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