The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Facebook reveals its work on the UX of AR of the future. Facebook has unveiled new details on the research it is performing on the UX of the AR glasses of the future. It comes as no surprise so the rumor of some weeks ago about Facebook developing its smartwatch … it can be a very previous device to pair to its future AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

During the keynote, CEO Sundar Pichai and his collaborators announced interesting features both for AR and VR. The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking?

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is reportedly working on its AR glasses (made with Luxottica) that should be released in 2023. Facebook is investing billions for hardware creation, and it is going to move 4,000 employes working on AR hardware in a new venue just built in California. The possible applications are endless. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

These are the official specs of NextMind: Dimension : 135x66x55mm Weight : 60 grams Headband size : 54 cm to 62 cm Clip-on system : can be clipped directly on a headband, a cap, or a VR/AR headset EEG: 9 high-quality electrodes Battery : Lithium-Polymer battery (3.7 The Unity SDK for NextMind is just fantastic.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 10, 2017

In addition, over 300 speakers are on the agenda from a wide range of companies in and around the AR and VR industries. Individuals from companies such as HTC Vive, NVIDIA, Osterhout, Unity, castAR, Qualcomm, Leap Motion, Meta, Verizon, Dell, Oculus, and more will be among the over 300 featured speakers in attendance.

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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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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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Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

Early last month, Leap Motion kicked off our internal hackathon with a round of pitch sessions. Our team of five ran with this concept to create AR Screen. Our team of five ran with this concept to create AR Screen. Leap Motion. You’ve probably heard the rest of the story. Core Concepts and Resources.

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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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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Click To Tweet Leap Motion goes mobile. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. You can join us on the showfloor or follow @LeapMotion to experience the future of VR/AR. You can join us on the showfloor or follow @LeapMotion to experience the future of VR/AR.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? Augmented reality (AR) is the future of Restaurant Menu? It now supports Oculus Quest, HTC Vive and UltraLeap (former Leap Motion) systems of skeletal hand tracking for interactions based on realistic, and customizable, hand poses.

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Leapmotion

JULY 11, 2019

It was hosted by Polaris AR. 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. Had a really great first day building a Project North Star AR headset.

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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. Each stage is at your fingertips w/ #LeapMotion #Unity. Ending contact.

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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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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. Prize: $10,000, Unity Suite, 2 OSVR HDKs, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Prize: $500, Unity Pro.

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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. 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. On to Unity!

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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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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. Now it’s in your hands – we can’t wait to see what you build with it.

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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. The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

At the same time, hardware hackers have built their own versions of the AR headset, with new prototypes appearing in Tokyo and New York. But the most surprising developments come from North Carolina, where a 19-year-old AR enthusiast has built multiple North Star headsets and several new demos.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

The company offers a range of modules, including the Stratos Inspire, and Leap Motion controller. Unity and Magic Leap. As one of the major development platforms for vendors and companies creating in XR, Unity has taken the world by storm. It will be interesting to see what Valve delivers next.

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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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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’re making VR/AR development easier with Widgets: fundamental UI building blocks for Unity. As an interaction engineer here at Leap Motion, I built the Arm HUD for the Planetarium. Flexible Workflows & New Unity Powers. Hi, Barrett Fox here. Next: A Brief History of Time Dial.

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VRGuy

APRIL 25, 2015

Examples of such peripherals could be head trackers, hand and finger sensors (like Leap Motion and SoftKinetic), gesture control devices (such as the Myo armband and the Nod ring), cameras, eye trackers and many others. What are these services that OSVR provides? Provide user parameter such as eye separation.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Beginning September 28th, developers around the world will compete to build the most amazing motion-controlled experiences for desktop, AR/VR, the Internet of Things, and beyond. Thanks to the generous teams at Unity, OSVR, and NVIDIA, jammers now have the chance to win the following along with $50,000 in cash prizes: 2 Unity Suites.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

” Head tracking is an essential part of all mixed reality technology, both VR and AR, and the so-called inside-out variety in a VR headset makes set up dramatically easier. Voice input is something Microsoft can do , but hand-tracking is a separate and enormously difficult problem despite companies like Leap Motion working hard at it.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

VR, AR and hand tracking are often considered to be futuristic technologies, but they also have the potential to be the easiest to use. The importance of this should be obvious to those working in training, education and industry, where countless hours are lost to learning complicated software and byzantine interfaces.

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Leapmotion

JULY 18, 2015

Hackathons are a great way to jumpstart creativity, especially when honor and glory are on the line. Recently, Leap Motion kicked off one of our internal hackathons, where small teams pitch and develop quick demos over the course of two days. Next week, we’ll have more to share about the AR Screen project.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’re making VR/AR development easier with Widgets: fundamental UI building blocks for Unity. In the future, we’ll be moving away from using Unity’s physics engine, and coding our own, simpler interactions. The post A Brief History of Time Dial appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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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? Unity provides a very natural way for the implementation of VR in your project.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Martin Schubert is a VR Developer/Designer at Leap Motion and the creator of Weightless and Geometric. Import a 3D model of a spoon into Unity and you’ll be able to see the mesh in full 3D but it won’t do much else. There are many ways we could handle grabbing a virtual spoon within a VR experience.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

We’ve also switched up the 2015 competition with two tracks: AR/VR and Open. The AR/VR track covers experiences built on tethered HMDs like the Oculus Rift, while the Open track covers desktop, hardware hacks, and the Internet of Things. AR/VR Track. 1st Prize: $10,000, Unity Suite, 2 OSVR HDKs, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. Switching Between VR/AR.

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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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Leapmotion

MARCH 8, 2015

It looked good on paper, but once I started working with it, I quickly realized that most of my time would be spent just trying to get the device to properly communicate with Unity and pair with the OS rather than having fun making stuff. So I switched to the Leap Motion Controller and quickly got my hands in my application.

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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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