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Qualcomm’s Standalone VR Is Getting Embedded Leap Motion Hand Tracking

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Thankfully, the team at Leap Motion have been working tirelessly to deliver hand tracking and late last year launched their much more compact hand tracking solution specifically aimed at mobile form factors. This system is essentially an upgrade over the Snapdragon 820 developer kit that Qualcomm launched at IFA 2016.

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The 2016 Proto Awards: See Who Took Home VR’s Biggest Honors

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Pearl – Google Spotlight Studios. Tilt Brush – Google. Tilt Brush – Google (Winner) . Blocks – Leap Motion. Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories (Winner). Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories. Best Overall: Tilt Brush – Google (Winner) . Speech Center VR – Cerevrum Inc. Ctrl – Breaking Fourth.

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2016’s Proto Award Winners Revealed, Tilt Brush Receives Top Honour

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The annual Proto Awards, set up to highlight and honour the best and brightest the VR industry has to offer, is over for another year, with Google’s Tilt Brush walking away as the overall winner. Pearl – Google Spotlight Studios. Tilt Brush – Google. Most Innovative: Tilt Brush – Google (Winner). The Lab – Valve.

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A Hands on Look at the State of Input in VR

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Oculus Touch controllers were just announced to ship late in 2016. Google Daydream View plus 3DOF controller. Many mobile headsets, like the Google Daydream View and Samsung Gear VR, become fully functional as soon as you slide your compatible smartphone into them. Google Daydream Controller. LEAP Motion.

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Learn about Headsets

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Motion tracking is either done by the smartphone’s sensors or built-in headset sensors; thus, there are no cables hindering free movement. The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. April 2016.

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Insights into the Public Perception of VR from Viral Video Reactions

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She shot a video of of her co-worker in VR trying out the latest Leap Motion Orion update, and tweeted it out saying “This is the future.” — Eva (@downtohoerth) February 19, 2016. — Nicolas Debock (@ndebock) February 21, 2016. ” She says , “Today, we are literally this guy.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.