The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

At this point of the article, you may ask yourself: but if NextMind lets you just select objects with your eyes, why don’t we simply use an eye-tracking device? A future runtime could offer more functionalities , a bit like it has happened with Leap Motion that in 2012 was a rough accessory and now is an amazing hands tracking device.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It seems cool, but I would like to try it to believe in it: all the times that someone promised me some kind of sensory magic, it never turned out so good as they told me (like with the phantom touch sensation that Leap Motion told me about ). This week I have read two interesting articles about XR storytelling experiences.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

When the Leap Motion Controller is mounted on a VR headset, it can see beyond your virtual field of view, but your hands will occasionally fall out of sensor range. The open-sourced Leap Motion VR Intro uses interactions designed to work seamlessly when your hands are in view – from flying in space to playing with floating spheres.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Click To Tweet When someone first puts on a Leap Motion-enabled VR headset, it often seems like they’re rediscovering how to use their own hands. With our Interaction Engine Unity package, prototyping these kinds of physically inspired interfaces is easier than ever. Each stage is at your fingertips w/ #LeapMotion #Unity.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. 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. You can port your application in 2 clicks between several different XR platforms. The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3.

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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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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. 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. Authors’ opinions are their own. Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In that article I noted: Microsoft already demonstrated a solid inside-out tracking system with its $3,000 HoloLens, but getting that kind of robust tracking system to work with other kinds of headsets, including wide field of view VR, is the place Bolas might be able to offer assistance. Microsoft, however, may be one step ahead.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 8, 2016

Guest Article by Yuval Boger. Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. Many game engines—such as Unity, Unreal, and SteamVR—immediately support it. Sensics and Razer launched OSVR 18 months ago with the intent of democratizing VR. Yuval is CEO of Sensics and co-founder of OSVR.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Who said Unity developers have all the fun ? You can find leap-widgets.js (including documentation) at github.com/leapmotion/leapjs-widgets. Much like the Unity Button Widget, this demo provides a clean, simple interface for trigger-based interactions – with buttons that can be moved along their own Z-axis. What’s next?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. Then there are the problems that are inherent to all hands-tracking solutions like Leap Motion : no haptic feedback, virtual hands that trespass objects they are interacting with, and such. Unity GPU We recently enabled Unity’s GPU Profiler on Quest and Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. I know you wrote an article on PTC and GlobalFoundries using AR to transform chip manufacturing. I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. Dean: Thank you.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. I know you wrote an article on PTC and GlobalFoundries using AR to transform chip manufacturing. I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. Dean: Thank you.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they're very insightful. You've written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. I know you wrote an article on PTC and GlobalFoundries using AR to transform chip manufacturing. I read the articles that you write, and they're very insightful. They're very factual.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. I know you wrote an article on PTC and GlobalFoundries using AR to transform chip manufacturing. I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. Dean: Thank you.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

AI reconstruction of how the launch of the Deckard may happen The controllers are an optimized version of Valve Index Controllers , smaller and more reliable, even if I’m told that the headset can also track the hands thanks to an integrated Leap Motion controller.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

I’ve written a dedicated news roundup article dedicated to Google I/O today, so I won’t go deep into details here and I invite you to read that post (linked here below) if you want to have the details about the news. During the keynote, CEO Sundar Pichai and his collaborators announced interesting features both for AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking. The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface. No kidding.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit. The possible applications are endless. This is a piece of great news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The front features a glossy plastic lid , that can be removed to uncover the so-called “frunk”, a hole with a USB-3 port , that can be used to attach accessories like Leap Motion to the Index. So, I put my Valve Index, opened BigScreen and developed in Unity in VR for 4 hours. What intrigues me are the front cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Regarding me, I will probably publish a first impression article after some hours into the game, and then a full-fledged review when I’ll finish playing it. Here below, you can find the links to many articles that talk about things you can do with VR during these days. Greg Madison is a genius working on AR/VR UX at Unity Labs.

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