Road to VR

APRIL 24, 2019

Apple has been continuously iterating on ARKit , its augmented reality development tool that lets creators make smartphone-based AR experiences. Now, a report from 9to5Mac holds that this year’s WWDC could see yet more new additions, including OS support for stereo AR headsets. version at the dev conference a year later.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. But it is thanks to research projects like this that in the next years, we will arrive at having AR glasses we can wear every day.

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JULY 22, 2015

We’ve come a long way since we first launched the Leap Motion Controller two years ago. Since we released our technology to the world, we’ve been constantly working to bring new tools and assets to developers building with the Leap Motion platform. AR/VR TRACK. The Leap Motion team.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2018

Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Through a mix of prototyping, tools and workflow building with a user driven feedback loop, Barrett has been pushing, prodding, lunging, and poking at the boundaries of computer interaction. Martin is Lead Virtual Reality Designer and Evangelist for Leap Motion.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

I didn’t have a Leap Motion attachment and I knew that my hands weren’t actually tracked, but the overwhelming sense of presence when I tried VR for the very first time was enough to momentarily fool me. Tagged with: ar , CES , holo cube , merge vr , toy.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2020

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players.

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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2018

Today we’re excited to share the second half of our design exploration along with a downloadable demo on the Leap Motion Gallery. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Martin is Lead Virtual Reality Designer and Evangelist for Leap Motion. Tool adjustments.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2018

As part of its interactive design sprints, Leap Motion , creators of the hand-tracking peripheral of the same name, prototyped three ways of effectively interacting with distant objects in VR. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Guest Article by Barrett Fox & Martin Schubert.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2017

With the next generation of mobile VR/AR experiences on the horizon, our team is constantly pushing the boundaries of our VR UX developer toolkit. Recently we created a quick VR sculpture prototype that combines the latest and greatest of these tools. In this post, we’ll walk through a small project built using these tools.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As mainstream VR/AR input continues to evolve – from the early days of gaze-only input to wand-style controllers and fully articulated hand tracking – so too are the virtual user interfaces we interact with. In a sense, they are. What kinds of 3D UIs would you like to see, touch, and create with these tools?

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Simple interactivity with the orbs is possible with motion control; the experience will support all major VR hardware, but is likely to feel most engaging when used with the Leap Motion hand tracking system. Disclosure: Rizzotto recently wrote a guest article for Road to VR about the future of AR, VR, AI, and education.

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Leapmotion

MAY 3, 2015

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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Some days ago, the new Gartner Hype Cycle has been released and this time, as you can see here below, not only there is no mention of VR, but there are also no references to AR and MR ( Thanks Kevin Williams and Sam Watts for having made me notice that). As you can see, there is no mention of AR (Image by Gartner).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 25, 2023

The second was a small AR experience made with Vuforia : I could frame a marker and see some 3D objects on it. Anyway, AR glasses are still in their infancy, and for the current status of the tech, this looks like a good devkit. I tried two demos with these glasses: the first one was just a video playing attached to my head.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Lenovo’s new AR concept headset & Disney partnership, all the VR/AR goodies at Comic-Con, Steven Spielberg’s trailer for Ready Player One is finally here, new industry landscape shows 60% increase in enterprise augmented reality, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. ALL THE VR & AR AT COMIC-CON, OH MY!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

In particular, it envisions: XR headsets (especially AR ones) being tethered to the smartphone now; XR headsets wirelessly connected to the smartphone (via Wi-fi or similar technologies) in 1–4 years; Fully standalone lightweight XR headsets, connected via 5G, in 5–10 years. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Authors’ opinions are their own. It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

There are a number of ways to create your own virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) app/videogame. Today, Charles River Analytics – a developer of intelligent systems solutions – has announced the launch of the Virtuoso Software Development Kit (VSDK), to aid speedy development of AR and VR experiences.

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Leapmotion

MAY 15, 2015

At a recent Designers + Geeks talk , Jody Medich and Daniel Plemmons talked about some of the discoveries our team has made (and the VR best practices we’ve developed) while building VR experiences with the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller. What is AR/VR bad at? What is AR/VR good at? Legible text.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

It removes the extra utility tools to focus on an easy to use interaction development system, which is completely focalized on a painless and streamlined development process. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

On his Linkedin profile , you can see that he has strong competencies in marketing, SEO, growth hacking, but also a great passion for AR/VR, and this is the reason why I got to know him a long time ago. If you’re looking to learn more about AR/VR design or development , check our free XR workshops and courses at Circuit Stream.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Ultraleap) Ultraleap launches Leap Motion Controller 2 Hand-tracking company Ultraleap has just announced the Leap Motion Controller 2 , the evolution of the iconic Leap Motion Controller, which is smaller and more precise than its predecessor.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s start this week with a bunch of cool news about the past week in AR and VR! The best news of the week has not been the release of a new fantastic VR headset or AR glass, but of a technology that will make a new generation of XR headsets possible: I’m talking about the XR2 chipset by Qualcomm. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

If you’re following this tutorial, I assume you already know: How to install Unity and all the Android Tools; How to put your Quest in developer mode; How to develop a basic Unity application for the Quest. the ones from Leap Motion). These interaction zones are some colliders with associated a ColliderZone script.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

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). Alex Colgan (Leap Motion): What inspired you to build a North Star headset? Recently we caught up with them.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2017

These rules are so fundamental that we design our digital realities to reflect human expectations about how things work in the real world. At Leap Motion, our mission is to empower people to interact seamlessly with the digital landscape. Today, we’re excited to release a major upgrade to this tool kit. Graphic Renderer.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Increasingly, vendors and innovators are searching for new and improved ways to immerse users in unique experiences, using powerful and disruptive technology. Hand and eye tracking tools, capable of sensing the movements, gestures, and gaze of a user, can take XR experiences to a new level.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Sci-fi movie interfaces are often breathtaking ways to tell a story, but the next generation of AR/VR interfaces will be clearer and easier to use – with a lot less visual clutter. Ultimately, Mike concludes that “as a community, we are discovering the [VR] medium’s unexpected strengths and weaknesses.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Madefire, the minds behind the Motion Books 3D comic format and publishing platform, today released a new app for Magic Leap One that will let users not only publish their own 3D ‘motion comic’ creations directly to the AR headset, but also experience a number of comics in the Madefire catalog.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

The summary will be split in two parts: today I’ll tell you about Stereopsia and some nice companies I met there, while tomorrow I’ll describe more the artistic/storytelling side of the event (and I will also talk about the Lenovo AR headset!). How is Stereopsia? Like every event, it has pros and cons. via Gfycat. VR Pianist.

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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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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.”. Here are the 8 most frequently asked questions we’ve heard so far: 1. What is Leap Motion? All three are crucial for hands in VR. Click To Tweet.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 28, 2016

The votes are in! Based on community ratings and scores from the Leap Motion team, we’re excited to present the winners of the second annual 3D Jam. And now, here are this year’s winners: AR/VR Track Winners. Motion control is an incredibly powerful tool for 3D animation. 1st Place: Lyra VR.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 7, 2015

This was what inspired me to create Graffiti 3D – a VR demo that I entered into the Leap Motion 3D Jam. While anamorphic graffiti is designed to feel three-dimensional, it’s created without the use of 3D modeling tools – just a set of spray cans. Our tools are finally starting to catch up with our imaginations.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Both projects are very different from each other. With Paper Plane , we studied the basic features of Leap Motion using fairly simple mechanics. What was it like incorporating Leap Motion into your Unity workflow? What types of tools or building blocks have helped you create a sense of immersion?

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 5, 2015

However, when you expand these into 3D spaces like AR/VR or the Internet of things, you have a lot of floating membranes. In the real world, we spend less time looking at our tools, and more time using them. Marshall McLuhan famously said that “we shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” Marshall McLuhan.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. With APIs for six programming languages and dozens of platform integrations, the Leap Motion SDK has everything you need to get started.

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