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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.21): Quest 2 released, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Leap Motion 2 on sale, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

an ARM chips can be installed on IoT sensors that communicate to a server where an NVIDIA card is used to perform machine learning on the data). You can finally buy the Leap Motion v2 accessory. The time for us XR developers to buy a Leap Motion 2 has finally come. What will this mean in the long run for NVIDIA?

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‘OpenVR Recorder’ is a Powerful Tool for Capturing Tracking and Input Data

Road to VR

Jasper Brekelmans, a Netherlands-based 3D tech artist, has recently released a motion capture tool offering an easy way to record OpenVR tracking data from headsets, motion controllers and Vive Trackers for both Vive and Rift setups.

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Ultraleap Gemini is hands tracking at its best

The Ghost Howls

Ultraleap is the company born from the acquisition of Leap Motion by Ultrahaptics and it has always worked towards offering optimal hands tracking solutions for the XR market. the fingers are bent with a slightly different angle) Pinky and ring fingers are sometimes misdetected the one for the other.

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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. The second is that “mistaken model of the strategic motivations”, which seems to aim at the fact that Meta has a clear strategy that is not (only) about data mining this time.

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

The Ghost Howls

I had some wonderful ideas of Mixed Reality applications I would like to prototype, but most of them are impossible to do in this moment because of a decision that almost all VR/MR headset manufacturers have taken: preventing developers from accessing camera data. So, how we empower the developers without hurting the user?

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Exclusive: Summoning & Superpowers – Designing VR Interactions at a Distance

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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. Selection.

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Hand Tracking Wristband Brings More Detailed Hand Movements To VR & AR

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Instead of firing webs, however, this device captures your hand movements and then transfers that data to a tethered Raspberry Pi-powered device connected to a computer. The device is called FingerTrak and looks a little bit like a souped up version of Spider-Man’s web shooters.