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Leap Motion Grabs $50M Investment for Class-leading Hand-tracking Tech

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Leap Motion, a veteran player in the virtual reality sector (having been founded two years ahead of Oculus), has announced the closure of a Series C investment round totaling $50 million. However, one place in VR still seems like a potential sweet spot for Leap Motion’s hand-tracking tech: mobile.

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VRgineers to Integrate Leap Motion Hand-tracking into its Wide FOV VRHero Headset

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Enterprise VR headset manufacturer VRgineers and Leap Motion , the company behind its eponymous optical hand tracker, announced they’re working together to embed Leap Motion’s tech into professional-grade VR headsets. ” Leap Motion controller mounted on an Oculus RIft DK2, image courtesy Leap Motion.

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Leap Motion Releases Major Tracking Update and New Demos to Show It Off

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Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” Image courtesy Leap Motion. Updated Tracking. Better hand pose stability and reliability. More accurate shape and scale for hands.

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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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Leap Motion’s New 180-degree Hand-tracking Comes to Qualcomm’s Latest VRDK Headset

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Qualcomm has debuted an updated version of their VR Headset Reference Design now with Leap Motion’s new 180-degree hand-tracking to bring gesture control to mobile VR headsets. The new headset and Leap Motion tracking module was shown off during last week’s GDC 2017.

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

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Blocks – Leap Motion. 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. FIREBIRD: La Peri (Book 1) – Innerspace VR.

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10 Projects That Have Us Excited About the Next Generation of VR & AR

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With leading high-end VR headsets debuting in 2016, we’ve had about two years to see what the first-generation VR experience looks like. Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion. The company first revealed the headset all the way back at the end of 2016.

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