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. With our Interaction Engine Unity package, prototyping these kinds of physically inspired interfaces is easier than ever.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Plasma Ball VR stays at a comfortable distance while being controlled by your hands, using tracking data combined with raw image passthrough. 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.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2017

At Leap Motion, our mission is to empower people to interact seamlessly with the digital landscape. Last year, we released an early access beta of the Leap Motion Interaction Engine , a layer that exists between the Unity game engine and real-world hand physics. Contact, Grasp, Hover. The post Interaction Engine 1.0:

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Leapmotion

MARCH 2, 2016

Leap Motion’s new Orion software represents a radical shift in our controller’s ability to see your hands. In tandem, we’ve also been giving our Unity toolset an overhaul from the ground up. We started with a brand new LeapC client architecture for streamlined data throughput from the Leap service into Unity.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2017

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. Rapid Prototyping and Development at Leap Motion. A scene from last month’s Leap Motion internal hackathon. On to Unity!

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Leapmotion

JUNE 1, 2016

In rebuilding our Unity developer toolset from the ground up , we started by rearchitecting the interfaces that receive data from the Leap Motion device. Moving up the tech stack, we then refactored most of the mid-level Unity scripts that pair the Leap hand data with 3D models and manages those representations.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more. If you imagine shuffling the soundtracks in these three examples, you can understand how it would fundamentally change the experience.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Hand Viewer , a brand-new release in our Examples Gallery , gives you an arsenal of onscreen hands to experiment with as you build new desktop experiences with Leap Motion. At 4:25, you can see the Controller Sandbox in Unity’s Hierarchy view. It makes the user feel invested. Plus, it’s half the fun.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Let me explain this better with an example: if you grab a bottle in real life, your fingers can’t trespass the bottle, because the material of the bottle exerts a force towards your fingers which prevents them to enter. Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 11, 2016

Unity Widgets are back – with a new name and massively streamlined functionality! Just released for our Unity Core Assets , the UI Input Module provides a simplified interface for physically interacting with World Space Canvases within Unity’s UI System. This utility is used in each of our example Widgets. What’s Inside?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It seems that Mark is still working on that vision, so that in the end, Facebook will be able to do on its devices whatever it wants, without compromises and without control. A company of this kind, with full control and no restrictions, could do great things on the tech side, but very bad things on the privacy side.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

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? According to a guy on Twitter that answered my post, Ultraleap should launch a new tracking controller this year.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2016

But before the dinosaur apocalypse, there was A Vox Eclipse – a desktop game that lets you design block creations by combining hand gestures with traditional button controls. I was already working on some voxel ideas in Unity and rolled them in to create A Vox Eclipse.”

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 29, 2015

Players can pilot the ship with their head using the Oculus Rift DK2, while freeing up his or her hands to control the weapon system. It’s available free for Windows on the Leap Motion App Store. After developing for Leap Motion and VR with Unity, do you have any cautionary tales from the trenches?

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Leapmotion

APRIL 29, 2015

Luckily, it’s a classic example of affordance. This is a really simple example, but a powerful one – because affordances are everywhere, and they control your life. In the real world, we never think twice about using our hands to control objects. Leap Motion VR Design Best Practices. Bridge the gap!

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Leapmotion

APRIL 30, 2015

In Unity, for instance, one approach is to set the camera’s near clip plane to be roughly 10 cm out. While the Leap Motion Controller can track more than 2 feet away, the “sweet spot” for tracking is roughly 1 foot from the device. For example, the Oculus Rift DK2 recommends a minimum range of 75 cm.

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Leapmotion

MAY 1, 2015

From the mouse and touchscreen, to hand tracking platforms like the Leap Motion Controller, the design of UI elements like the humble button is shaped by the hardware and how we use it. Here’s a quick guide to designing buttons and other UI elements for VR, based on our Unity Widgets. Example: Weightless.

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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. Whatever platform you’re building on, it’s important to know that designing for motion control involves a whole new way of thinking about interactions.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

An example of the Windows Holographic user interface. If you want to take VR into another room, for example, you have to find places for the sensors again. 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

APRIL 17, 2015

In this post, we take a look at 4 ways that sound, VR, and motion controls can be a powerful combination. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space, which is absolutely essential to creating a sense of presence. Here are just a few: Unity documentation.

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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. Our UI Widget for Unity had some interesting challenges along the way.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! Using the weather and fire packs, Fnordcorps from Spectacular-Ocular.com has been working on integrating different particle effects into Leap Motion hand controls.

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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. Provide optimized connectors to popular engines such as Unity and Unreal.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 13, 2015

As an optical motion tracking platform , the Leap Motion Controller is fundamentally different from handheld controllers in many ways. Here are 4 tips to designing for the controller’s unique strengths, while avoiding common pitfalls. For example, grabbing is a distinct action that can signal intent.)

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

With Paper Plane , we studied the basic features of Leap Motion using fairly simple mechanics. The idea of controlling a plane came quite by accident, when discussing the possible options of the game. What was it like incorporating Leap Motion into your Unity workflow? VRARlab is on Twitter @VRARlab.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash of 1992, the internet has been superseded by the Metaverse, a multi-person shared virtual reality with both human-controlled avatars and system “daemons”. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 27, 2016

Interacting with Leap Motion. I chose to work with optical hand tracking using the Leap Motion Controller in order to perform gestures that were natural to our culture. For example, the red panda spends his time eating ramen or the otter is getting ready to jam with his clam guitar.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 8, 2015

When I started designing this project, I chose the Playstation Move controller as my input device. 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.

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Leapmotion

JULY 30, 2016

Creating new 3D hand assets for your Leap Motion projects can be a real challenge. This has the powerful benefit of being able to quickly iterate between a modeling package and seeing the models driven by live hand motion in Unity. This contains a Leap VR camera rig: LMHeadMountedRig. Save Start Pose.

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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. Leap Motion’s Interaction Engine allows human hands to grab virtual objects like physical objects.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Note that some assets (like Image Hands and Widgets) are not currently available for the Orion Unity Core Assets. In the real world, we never think twice about using our hands to control objects. For example, pointing at oneself when referring to another person feels foreign. User Interface Design. We instinctively know how.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Controller Position and Rotation. Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset. From there, a further offset in Z space is necessary, to compensate for the fact that the controller is mounted on the outside of the headset.

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Leapmotion

JULY 3, 2015

Reaching toward the holographic interface, with the motion of a single finger, you take control of time itself. Hover VR interfaces use the Leap Motion Controller, providing hand-based interactions and strong sense of immersion in the virtual space. You can control the flow of time, moving forward or in reverse.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

If words like open source, GitHub, GNU, firmware, C#, or Unity don’t mean you anything, then you better stay away from this headset and buy a Rift or Vive. For example, you can use the Oculus Rift sensor instead of the OSVR sensor. If you have an Vive, you can use the Vive Controllers with the HDK headset. Controllers.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

For well-established input methods – mouse, keyboard, game controller, touch – there are a variety of options and accepted standards for menu systems. Yesterday, I introduced you to Hovercast – a hand-controlled menu interface for virtual reality environments. Developing with Leap Motion Tracking. First Iteration.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 15, 2018

Check out our results below or download the example demo from the Leap Motion Gallery. The advanced hand-based physics layer of the Leap Motion Interaction Engine makes the foundational elements of grabbing and releasing virtual objects feel natural. Stacking in particular is a good example. The Challenge.

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