Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

Early last month, Leap Motion kicked off our internal hackathon with a round of pitch sessions. One of our tracking engineers suggested using our prototype Dragonfly module to augment a physical display with virtual widgets. Leap Motion. Our team of five ran with this concept to create AR Screen.

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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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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2017

The HoloLens is the most impressive augmented reality headset on the market today, and their developer kit is already being deployed into industries ranging from architecture, engineering, design, sales, medicine, and education. But if that was the case, then why not create something on par with the Vive and charge enterprise prices?

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VRGuy

APRIL 25, 2015

Illustration from Meta SpaceGlasses Can the OSVR project be used not just for virtual reality but also for augmented reality? Extract data and events from the peripherals and pass it on to the application in a standardized way. Of course, each of these devices may report data differently. Absolutely!

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

At Leap Motion, we believe that the next wave of technological interfaces will rely on the original human operating system: your hands. With HackingEDU just around the corner, Leap Motion is sponsoring the world’s largest education hackathon with over 100 Leap Motion Controllers for attendees to use.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

But when you start the rendering, this special camera renders the scene from many points of view around its original position outputting a lot of volumetric data. A guy and a girl from Prague showcased in Stereopsia a simple demo where you could play the piano with a Vive with a Leap Motion mounted on. VR Pianist.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

As part of our 3D Jam spotlight series, here are 17 utility demos that let you reach into a sea of data and extract its insights, explore a CAD prototype before committing it to a 3D printer, meet with people from around the world, and more. Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Leap Commander.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. The headset used sensors to detect my fingers, using software from Leap Motion. Gazzaley’s brainwave sensors would capture data on the part of the brain that was stimulated. He said the brain doesn’t see the raw data of reality.

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Leapmotion

JULY 11, 2019

Building the world’s most advanced augmented reality headset isn’t exactly for beginners. 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.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

With Pokémon Go recently breaking a financial milestone – reaching one billion USD in revenue , it may finally be time to say that Augmented Reality (AR) is now reaching mainstream acceptance and acknowledgement. Although still a novel concept, the industry is clearly taking altered realities seriously.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Location is at the heart of the AR Cloud.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-Founder of #Blippar one of the first billion dollar “Augmented Reality” Startup from India, being a pioneer, early mover brings its own pro’s & lots of Con’s. Founder CEO of #JaduAR he is working on Building the future of musical experiences with Augmented Reality. 1- Ambarish Mitra.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

Someone says that due to recent Facebook problems with the data privacy scandal, they preferred to delay the launch of new products to a future event (maybe OC5?), Do you remember Facebook Camera, the augmented reality framework of Facebook? — Boz (@boztank) February 21, 2018. Instagram and Messenger get AR features.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one. It provides a digital legend in the form of a point cloud to annotate (augment) objects and places in the physical world. Header image by Leap Motion).

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Leapmotion

JULY 3, 2015

User interfaces (UIs) play a crucial role in virtual and augmented reality, especially at this early stage of the medium’s evolution. Hover VR interfaces use the Leap Motion Controller, providing hand-based interactions and strong sense of immersion in the virtual space. You’re about to find out with Firework Factory VR.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 11, 2022

Ultraleap Gemini is a fifth-generation hand-tracking platform that supports virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) solutions, and has been designed to provide immersive, realistic, and interactive computing experiences. Top Features of Ultraleap Gemini. Currently, Ultraleap Gemini offers the following features: Fast initialization.

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VRGuy

MAY 13, 2015

In contrast, there is a much greater variety of VR devices: HMDs, motion and position trackers, hand and finger sensors, eye trackers, body suits, locomotion devices, force feedback devices, augmented reality cameras and more. Yet another advantage is the ability to add in-line analysis plugins to the data path.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

From there, the opportunities to expand a user’s understanding of data are endless. In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner. Creating Affordances. Well-designed tools afford their intended operation and negatively afford improper use.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. Turning Data into Information Trends A stream of XYZ hand coordinates is useful. Smart software can turn data into higher-level information. Augmented reality tools detect objects in video feeds. Magic Leap is not commercial yet.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Since the OSVR launch in January this year, nearly 250 organizations including Intel, NVIDIA, Xilinx, Ubisoft, Leap Motion, and many others have joined the OSVR ecosystem. Concurrent with the expansion of the OSVR community, the capabilities of the software platform have grown by leaps and bounds.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. And you also supported us on these times, because it was hard to find headsets as a developer, as a startup.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. And you also supported us on these times, because it was hard to find headsets as a developer, as a startup.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers - Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel -- and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. And you also supported us on these times, because it was hard to find headsets as a developer, as a startup.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Alvin: So actually, before going into that, I want to add one more point to the last study on the concentration level, because one piece of data that’s not actually in the slide I published was that there was a distinctive difference, actually, in the concentration improvements for male versus female. Can you speak to that?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Alvin: So actually, before going into that, I want to add one more point to the last study on the concentration level, because one piece of data that’s not actually in the slide I published was that there was a distinctive difference, actually, in the concentration improvements for male versus female. Can you speak to that?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

Probably Ultraleap, or even when it was just Leap Motion, should have aimed to be bought by a headset manufacturer before all the major XR brands started developing hand tracking internally. I have no idea what will happen with all the hardware that has been sold and all the headsets that integrated an Ultraleap controller.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

Neuralink technology has evolved, and now it only consists of a tiny device that is more or less big like a coin that you install in your skull and lets the system read the data from many of your neurons. The device can connect via Bluetooth to a phone, where the data of the brain can be analyzed. This is a very interesting result.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

They're not thinking of the full tech stack that's required for real pervasive augmented reality in the world. Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But they're not thinking about the tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

They're not thinking of the full tech stack that's required for real pervasive augmented reality in the world. Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But they're not thinking about the tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

If the report were true, this would mean that Apple doesn’t believe in AR anymore and this would be terrible news for all the immersive realities ecosystem. Apple is clearly committed in augmented reality, and the recent release of ARKit 3 proves that. Companies are studying foveated rendering for AR glasses. Very interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

They are dubbed “Meta Touch Plus”, and they work (as I predicted last week) by fusing the data of IMU, IR LED tracking, and hand tracking together. Plus thanks to the features of the Presence Platform and the depth sensor, the headset is going to be able to “transform” the room you are in in a quite convincing way.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

They're not thinking of the full tech stack that's required for real pervasive augmented reality in the world. Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But they're not thinking about the tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

VR-2 Pro adds an integrated Leap Motion and a 10m cable. This week, HTC has confirmed Road To VR that the Cosmos doesn’t transmit any data of the positional tracking outside your PC and the data is also encrypted to prevent hackers to access them. More info (Article on Road To VR) More info (Article on Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When I tried the Looxid Labs add-on for the Vive I’ve found it interesting, but its data were pretty noisy, and some community members defined it as “another random numbers generator”. UltraLeap (formerly known as Leap Motion) has just launched the 5th iteration of its hands-tracking runtime, called Gemini.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media."

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Leapmotion

JULY 14, 2018

Virtual reality. Augmented reality. Mixed, hyper, modulated, mediated, diminished reality. A consultant uses overlaid scan data to advise a surgeon in a remote operating theatre. That’s the brief we’ve been working on at Leap Motion Design Research.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

It is an augmented reality glass that is being developed in China by a former Magic Leap engineer. The PC service streams to the headset the game images rendered by the PC and the mobile service sends to the PC the data on the pose of the headset and the controller. Why is it so disruptive? Before thinking about VR 2.0,

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