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Leap Motion 2 Adds High-Quality Hand Tracking To Almost Any Headset

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Leap Motion 2 is a $140 accessory that adds ultra high quality hand tracking to PC VR and standalone headsets. The original Leap Motion was a desktop hand tracking accessory launched in 2014 that could be mounted to the front of early modern VR headsets like the Oculus DK2.

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5 Medical and Assistive Technologies Being Transformed with Leap Motion

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From the operating room to virtual reality, here are 5 ways that people are using Leap Motion tech for medical and assistive applications. Solution: One of TIME Magazine’s Top 25 Inventions of 2014, MotionSavvy’s UNI is a two-way communication tool for the deaf using Leap Motion and speech technologies.

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Leap Motion + VR 2015: A Look at the Year Ahead

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With 25,000 new developers registered since August, there are now over 150,000 developers in more than 186 countries building with Leap Motion technology. But Dragonfly isn’t the only prototype that we developed in 2014. The post Leap Motion + VR 2015: A Look at the Year Ahead appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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2014: A Year in Virtual Superlatives

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We learned so much on the ground with our developer community in 2014. And now, for a bit of inspiration, behold – our 2014 Shortlist of Virtual Superlatives: Most Uncanny Robert Downey Jr. What was your favorite community project of 2014 – and what are you looking to see in the New Year? Springing drones to life. Impression.

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Cal Hacks 2014: Voice-Commanded Virtual Reality and Musical Data

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Leap Motion hacks and mashups, plus lots more photos from a weird, wacky, and wild weekend. (By Team RiftWare’s winning Leap Motion hack lets you leverage the power of the Oculus Rift, Leap Motion, and Android Wear – so you can reach into virtual reality and control it with voice commands. Notetastic!

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Thomas Street’s UI Exploration with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion

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We all grew tired of talking about how we wanted to explore VR development, so we allocated several weeks to tinkering with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion — staffing one full-time developer and a few designers part-time. We got things started by downloading the most popular Oculus Rift / Leap Motion demos and giving them a try.

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Newsletter 51 – #WWYL? How Hardware Hacks can Change the World

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Leap Motion at PennApps. Congratulations to all the developers who hacked and coded their way to glory at this weekend’s PennApps Spring 2014. We’ll be sharing more about our experiences soon, including some very cool Leap Motion API hacks. Compare Metrics + Leap Motion Hackathon.