The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! How to get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK in Unity – Video Tutorial.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2018

This is because Leap Motion has announced its v4 version of the tracking runtime and with it three demos to showcase the new tracking functionalities: Cat Explorer, Particles, and Paint. Cat Explorer is an educational app made to show you all the anatomy of a cat and it obviously employs Leap Motion as the only medium of interaction.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D. Let’s see how to do it. In addition, we’ll set up your headset to both hand tracking and developer modes. Table of Contents.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

One of the biggest drawbacks of HTC Vive headsets with regard to Oculus Rift are the controllers: while Oculus Touch is ergonomic and can emulate the hands quite well, Vive has controllers that are quite big and are usable only as wands. Today, a year after the last update, we have new info about Knuckles controllers.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2018

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. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Guest Article by Barrett Fox & Martin Schubert.

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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

It was once thought that controller-less glove & finger tracking technology would be the ideal input for virtual reality, but over the last few years the benefits of having a physical, tracked controller for VR input have become quite apparent. Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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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

APRIL 4, 2023

AR and VR Content Creation With Integrated Ultraleap Hand Tracking Ultraleap was founded in 2019 when Leap Motion was acquired by Ultrahaptics , and the two companies were rebranded under the new name. They don’t need to know how to code to create VR apps and tools, including training programs.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Once you activate it, your controllers disappear, and Oculus provides you a handy tutorial that teaches you how to use it. Notice that while you use hands tracking, you can’t use controllers at all. And if you try to launch an application requiring controllers (e.g. Leap Motion still has the lead in this.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Why should we invent another joystick, gamepad or controller, if we already have, thanks to millions of years of evolution, the most perfect controller for interaction with the environment – hands? How to enhance a car? How to sell a new model of refrigerator? Source: imdb.com. Current State. Sounds funny, yeah?

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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. The Time Hand.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

Beat Saber and Gorilla Tag) came from small and unknown indie studios , you realize how important it is to let everyone in the community experiment with new paradigms. How to preserve privacy then? If you use a Leap Motion controller, you should be able to grab the feed of its cameras according to its docs.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

This is how to set it up. Before officially releasing it, Mr. President has highlighted that the Focus Plus is not just a Vive Focus with two 6 DOF controllers, but it has also a better weight balancing and new improved lenses (I will tell you my impressions on the device in my next post).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 20, 2022

The feature definitely reminds of us some excellent hand-tracking interaction concepts shared with us by Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) back in 2018. Here’s how: How to Update Quest and Quest 2. In your headset, bring up the Quest menu by pressing the Oculus button on your right controller.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is currently producing its DK1 device , that can be used both with Vive systems (in this case, a Vive Tracker is attached to the gloves to provide the positional tracking) or Oculus systems (in this case, the Oculus Touch controllers are used). It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Fortunately, while written instructions have to compete with a huge variety of visual stimuli, you have a lot more control over what your user hears. Tagged with: leap motion Facebook Twitter Reddit More. Tutorial Audio. It’s sad but true – most users don’t read instructions. Magic and Progression.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 31, 2016

Now officially integrated in Unreal Engine 4.11 , getnamo’s independent plugin for Leap Motion makes it faster and easier than ever to integrate Leap Motion Orion into your VR projects! The post Leap Motion VR Support Now Directly Integrated in Unreal Engine appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

One month ago, I’ve participated in the Stereopsia event in Bruxelles (Belgium) to perform a talk about how to organize an event in virtual reality. Without using Vive Trackers or other sensors, they try to reconstruct the pose of the full body of the users by just using the pose of the headset and the two controllers. VR Pianist.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

Have you seen how many new features? Let’s start with something easy: do you remember my article on how to stream the content of the Focus on an external screen? Awesome controllers. The Vive Focus has inside-out 6DOF tracking but has only a damn 3 DOF controller. It is jaw-dropping. Better screen mirroring.

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Leapmotion

MAY 17, 2015

In the process of building applications and various UX experiments at Leap Motion, we’ve come up with a useful set of heuristics to help us critically evaluate our gesture and interaction designs. The team at Leap Motion is constantly working to improve the accuracy and consistency of our tracking technology.

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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. Whether you’re giving people the power to grab a skeleton , reaching into a human heart , or teaching anyone how to program , hands are powerful. Defend Against Zombies, Learn How to Code.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Like every open source project, several of its scripts are interdependent and they require some time to fully understand how to combine them. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? VRTK, as other existing VR interaction toolkits, is built around logic input from controllers. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). built in to headband Controllers ?—?6DOF pounds (0.55kg) Cable Length: 19.5

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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. Concept: A Playset, Not A Control Board. From Flat Screens to VR Interfaces. In a sense, they are. 3D Drag and Drop.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Through input events, the user may configure apps to receive inputs from a number of input sources — 6 degrees of free (6DoF) controllers, articulated hands, and voice, as well as Select or Menu, features, and correlate them with various inputs.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Don’t forget that your headsets need chargers and your controllers need batteries; Elements to guarantee the hygiene of your users. Regarding how many disposable face masks to buy, try imagining how much time you plan giving to each user and then think at maximum how many users you can serve. Smile and have fun.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 21, 2017

strLast time, we looked at how an interactive VR sculpture could be created with the Leap Motion Graphic Renderer as part of an experiment in interaction design. With the sculpture’s shapes rendering, we can now craft and code the layout and control of this 3D shape pool and the reactive behaviors of the individual objects.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Learn how to optimize your #VR project for the next generation of mobile VR experiences. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

But you are right that it was an accelerated learning experience on how to best create and market a bundle. That’s basically what VR devs do today… and of course, they all do it slightly differently, leading to 3 or 4 different ways of activating a teleport on Quest apps using controllers. What are your future plans?

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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. You don’t know, and neither does the Leap Motion Controller.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 12, 2019

Aler proudly highlighted that while 11 DoF is not perfect, it is still better than most gloves and controllers on the market that usually are around 7 DoF. You choose… and Dexta even made a demo using the glove with Oculus Quest controllers! He put much emphasis on thumbs tracking.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 23, 2015

The physical cameras on the controller have a fixed separation of 40 mm. The virtual cameras exist in VR, and are looking at virtual objects as well as the images coming in from the controller. The post The Alignment Problem: How to Position Cameras for Augmented Reality appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2019

They seem a bit standardized, I don’t know how to explain this. Thanks to Leap Motion tracking , you can actually see your hands in VR and you can use your hands to activate some objects that make you go further in the adventure. You have no hand controllers, so the only way of navigating the environments is walking.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Ultrahaptics went on to raise $23 million, begin to interest car companies , and later absorb the much-hyped Leap Motion, which, it turns out, was a match made in heaven, by uniting both hand tracking and mid-air haptics. Of course, one of the key drivers of this touchless technology is of course The Great Pandemic.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 31, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’ve seen our fair share of impressive motion-controlled robots that will one day bring about the robocalypse. On another level, a high school student’s robotics project is combining the Oculus Rift and motion control to create an experience that takes you wherever the robot goes.

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