Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2018

Over the last few weeks, Leap Motion has been teasing some very compelling AR interface prototypes, demonstrated on an unknown headset. Leap Motion plans to open-source the design of the device, which they’re calling Project North Star. ” Image courtesy Leap Motion. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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Leap Motion AR Hand tracking Latency 83

Leapmotion

APRIL 9, 2018

We started by constructing a computer model of the system to get a sense of the design space. Manufacturing optics with this level of precision requires expensive tooling, so we “turned” to diamond turning (the process of rotating an optic on a vibration-controlled lathe with a diamond-tipped tool-piece).

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Leap Motion Hand tracking Virtual Reality Augmented Reality 77

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MAY 7, 2016

While working on demonstration projects here at Leap Motion, we’ve found ourselves wanting to use different sets of hands for a variety of reasons. Using the Debug hands in this way can be help for – wait for it – debugging your other hands to verify they’re lining up with Leap Motion data!

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