The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The price is incredibly low: $299; Announced that in 2021 it will release a pair of smartglasses made in collaboration with Ray-Ban; Teased the work it is doing in AR; Revealed that is working with Ubisoft for two AAA VR games developed around the IPs of Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed; Discontinued the Rift. Become my 10th supporter!!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Today I have the pleasure of publishing an interview I had with Graham Atlee , a very smart guy that has developed the Triton Project, a DIY affordable AR headset with wide FOV and natural hands interactions! For the past 3 years I’ve been working on various AR/VR projects like Pumori.io Triton AR headset (Image by Graham Atlee).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. There are some typical questions that arise in the mind of the AR enthusiasts of the world: how is it? Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

I have appreciated it a lot, so I thought it could have been a cool idea to make a post for you to describe how it is and compare it with the previous Leap Motion controller. Are you in? Some weeks ago, I have reviewed the new Leap Motion Gemini (v5) runtime , and I have appreciated its robustness.

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ARPost

APRIL 4, 2023

For the Fectar AR and VR content creation platform users, creating XR content with hand tracking feature has just become simpler and easier. Focused on creating AR and VR spaces for education, training, onboarding, events, and more, and aimed at non-technical users, the company provides a cross-platform, no-code AR/VR building tool.

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2018

However, the team at Leap Motion has also investigated more exotic and exciting interface paradigms from arm HUDs and digital wearables, to deployable widgets containing buttons, sliders, and even 3D trackballs and color pickers. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Here’s a smattering of exciting projects that are likely to influence the VR and AR space in the next two years. Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion. The world of AR is poised and waiting for its breakout headset. Oculus Half Dome Prototype. Image courtesy Facebook.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2019

Several reports over the past two years have suggested Apple is getting ready to manufacture an AR headset , and possibly ship it sometime in 2020—something that’s so far unsubstantiated by the company itself. SEE ALSO Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2018

Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Martin is Lead Virtual Reality Designer and Evangelist for Leap Motion. He has created multiple experiences such as Weightless, Geometric, and Mirrors, and is currently exploring how to make the virtual feel more tangible. The Challenge.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Futurologists had predicted and filmmakers embodied on the screen that mankind would forget any third-party apps and devices alien to human physiology even before the first concepts of AR and VR appeared. There is a big difference between VR-helmets (or AR-glasses) with controllers and ones that can be controlled by hand gestures.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2018

But there are times when virtual objects will be farther away than arm’s reach, beyond the user’s range of direct manipulation. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Another week, another roundup of amazing AR/VR news! but I have found some time anyway to read all the news I found about AR and VR and create this summary just for you! Not reading it would be a pity, so go on…. Facebook may be partnering with Luxottica to create consumer AR glasses. Top news of the week. Image by Ray-Ban).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Robust to handling objects: Hyperion offers superior hand tracking while holding an object in your hand, making it perfect for mixed reality. Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The most recent hardware revisions brought automatic IPD adjustment, an embedded Leap Motion sensor for wide FOV hand-tracking, and reduced weight and size. We’ve getting ever closer to our goal – which is to make virtual reality indistinguishable from reality itself.”

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2019

Ars Technica has improved the contrast and brightness of the image to show the SteamVR sensors that are scattered all over the headset. This confirms that it will use SteamVR tracking (Image by Ars Technica). This may be the purpose of the two baseline cameras… or there may also be an embedded Leap Motion v2.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 3, 2023

On the last day, I tried many interesting technologies, but I selected two for this summary, which are the first two that I’ve tried: the new Leap Motion Controller by Ultraleap and the AR technology by LetinAR. Testing Ultraleap on Digilens glasses I then tested it on top of the Digilens AR glasses.

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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.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

First demonstrated to theme park executives at the Asian Attractions Expo in Singapore last month, Holovis ’ R3ex (Rideable Realtime Robot Experiences) project combines virtual reality with four/six-axis robot arm amusement rides.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). Hands-on Realmax AR glasses. I’ve just had my first day in Nanchang, China.

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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

MARCH 21, 2021

Image by Facebook Reality Labs). 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. As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe.

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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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AllThingsVR

JULY 18, 2017

Morgan Asset Management for its VR/AR hand-tracking technology. 2) WaveOptics , a UK startup that builds waveguide-based optics for AR, has raised £12M (~$16M) in a Series B round of funding. 3) Hutch Interiors , an LA-based startup, has raised $10M for its AR home design mobile app. Read more here. Read more here.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

So by that measure, Pimax over-delivered at CES 2019 with its Leap Motion bundle featuring 8K VR headset with built-in speakers, 200° FOV and optional eye tracking being developed in partnership with 7invensun. She also regularly writes for Fast Company, Ars Technica, Quartz, Wired and others. The post Showing Off VR 2.0

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

Leap Motion. The VIRTUOSO SDK for XR development is available as a full open-source release for the Unity game engine on Github. It currently supports the following devices and XR systems: SteamVR: HTC Vive and Windows MR headsets. Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest. Sense Glove. bHaptics TactSuit.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2020

The last two days I’ve been in Germany to attend the LearnTec event together with Massimiliano Ariani , the game designer of the fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded , to have a speech about the latest developments of Mobile AR. Hands tracking. Zoom on the application, and the use of hands tracking to interact with its menus.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

The SDK will support eye-tracked foveation and fixed foveation (like the one of Oculus Go); The Vive Focus will soon have finger tracking : for every hand, you will be able to have something similar to what Leap Motion offers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At WCVRI , I have tried some cool AR/VR hardware. North Star AR headset. Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. Me trying the new version of the North Star AR headset. Up view of the headset.

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Leapmotion

JULY 22, 2015

We’ve come a long way since we first launched the Leap Motion Controller two years ago. 28th, developers around the world will build innovative experiences for virtual reality, desktop, mobile, and beyond. For 3D Jam 2015, teams will compete in two tracks – Open and AR/VR. AR/VR TRACK. REGISTER NOW.

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XROM

JUNE 2, 2023

The Leap Motion Controller 2 is the ideal hardware for experiencing Ultraleap’s world-class hand tracking. Key improvements over the original Leap Motion Controller include higher resolution cameras, an increased field of view, and 25% lower power consumption, all in a 30% smaller package for optimum placement and convenience.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The headsets are something we have never seen before and one of them clearly features a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) with the Valve logo on and from that moment on, the hype regarding an upcoming Valve virtual reality HMD has risen. Here you are the four magical photos that have been published (click them to zoom): Is this real?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

There it has presented a lot of news regarding all Facebook companies (Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, etc…) and of course, among these pieces of news, we had some AR and VR ones. Under 70 days to go until our biggest F8 to date — where we'll share the biggest AR/VR news from Facebook to date.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 10, 2017

The acronym for Augmented World Expo (AWE) welcomes a wonderful play on words, recognizing the incredible minds behind augmented and virtual reality as the tech superheroes they are and having attendees to stare in “AWE” at their work.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2017

Microsoft has leapfrogged the augmented reality competition with the combination of having the best AR headset with the HoloLens, a healthy ecosystem of enterprise developers, a suite of AI-driven cognitive service APIs, and a forward-looking Mixed Reality strategy (which the company uses to describe both VR and AR headsets).

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