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Qualcomm’s Standalone VR Is Getting Embedded Leap Motion Hand Tracking

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Anyone that has used mobile VR knows that controllers are nice, but unless you can ‘see’ your hands and interact with your surroundings with your hands, the immersion is lost. The real improvements are increased performance, power savings and support for Leap Motion.

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Exclusive: Scaffolding in VR – Interaction Design for Easy & Intuitive Building

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Arranging or assembling virtual objects is a common scenario across a range of experiences, particularly in education, enterprise, and industrial training—not to mention tabletop and real-time strategy gaming. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Guest Article by Barrett Fox & Martin Schubert.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

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Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. Robust to handling objects: Hyperion offers superior hand tracking while holding an object in your hand, making it perfect for mixed reality.

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We need camera access to unleash the full potential of Mixed Reality

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It would be ideal to copy the strategies that Android already employs on the phones , where a popup asks you if you want to give some permissions to the app that you have just opened. If you use a Leap Motion controller, you should be able to grab the feed of its cameras according to its docs. in the toilet).

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An In-depth Look at Microsoft’s HoloLens & Mixed Reality Ecosystem

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At Microsoft’s Build conference today, the company is announcing a new OEM VR partner with HP as well as inside-out, six degree-of-freedom input controllers for VR headsets made by Microsoft partners like Acer. But as long as you’re not quickly moving your head around, then you’ll minimize the motion sickness triggers.

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All you need to know about the leaked Valve VR headset: is Half-Life 3/2 coming?

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At this point, there is another question that every one of us is making: is this a controlled leak by Valve itself? I’m not saying that it is absolutely a controlled leak… I just want to say that personally, I believe that it is. If it is a SteamVR 2 device, it can for sure work with all the SteamVR controllers.

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The crazy April, 30th of VR: Oculus Quest, Rift S, Oculus For Business and Valve Index!

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It is a very aggressive strategy and I’m curious to see if it will pay off or not. The controllers are great and let you finally also throw objects in VR and give you all five fingers. the headset alone $500 and the headset+controllers will be priced at $750. At these high prices, mainstream adoption is just impossible.

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