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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

With an embedded Leap Motion hand tracker on the opposite side of the fixed frame, I was able to reach out to the 3D objects and bring them right up to the point where the vergence-accommodation conflict took over and I went a bit cross-eyed trying to resolve the image. Photo by Road to VR.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has been using IR illuminators for VR hand tracking for ten years now, and Apple Vision Pro has two IR illuminators on the front too. They act as IR floodlights, helping the tracking cameras, which see infrared, get a bright view of your hands and other nearby objects.

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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. Beyond choosing to open the usual Oculus menu you’ll also be able to move your pinched hand to select other actions like taking a screenshot or activating voice commands.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

The headset features a depth sensor, and two high-definition 4MP RGB cameras for passthrough mixed reality. The Quest 3 is similar to what Brad Lynch already leaked months ago. 40% smaller than the Quest 2, but 2x more powerful than Quest 2 thanks to the next-gen Snapdragon chipset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This is a great image definition: consider that for instance the Vive Pro has only 16 PPD. The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. Woman wearing a HoloLens2 device (Image by Microsoft). The comfort has been improved by a 3X factor.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2018

In one case study, a multiple-sclerosis patient used Cybershoes along with a Leap Motion sensor to walk around a subway system while using her hands to push doors. For example, they could be used for training in industrial facilities, physical therapy, rehab, real estate tours, the list goes on.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

That said, like all flight sims, FlyInside has a definite learning curve, as it seeks to accurately simulate everything from Cessna prop planes all the way up to Chinook helicopters, each with their own control intricacies that hardcore flight sim proponents love to dig into.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Designed for the Oculus Rift, it’s available free for Mac and Windows on the Leap Motion App Store. Over time, my interest shifted to Unity3D, and now I love to tinker with new hardware like the Leap Motion, Oculus Rift, or Kinect – which led to experiments like Hoverboard VR , Polyrider , and Soundscape VR.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

It now supports Oculus Quest, HTC Vive and UltraLeap (former Leap Motion) systems of skeletal hand tracking for interactions based on realistic, and customizable, hand poses. It includes the precise mathematical definition of how several interactions will behave in the 3D environment.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Masahiro Yamaguchi (CEO, Psychic VR Lab), God Scorpion (Media artist, Psychic VR Lab), Keiichi Matsuda (VP Design, Leap Motion), Oda Yuda (Designer), Akihiro Fujii (CTO, Psychic VR Lab). Alex Colgan (Leap Motion): What inspired you to build a North Star headset? It’s definitely the future of the user interface I think.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Bionic Display still features two 1920×1080 low persistence micro-OLEDs and two 1440×1600 low persistence AMOLEDs allowing for the high definition the headset is known for. Additionally, the Varjo VR-2 Pro also comes with integrated Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion) hand tracking technology.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Gartner has been very kind with me and has also provided a very long statement about the AR Cloud, extracted from its paper: Definition: The augmented reality (AR) cloud is the underlying, persistent, digital content layer mapped to objects and locations in the physical world. Header image by Leap Motion).

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Leapmotion

JULY 18, 2015

Recently, Leap Motion kicked off one of our internal hackathons, where small teams pitch and develop quick demos over the course of two days. The simply titled Swipey Joe McDesktop took the top prize for utility – winning the Throne of Leaps (seen below alongside the Leap Motion Crown). Top image credit: HBO.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 29, 2015

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? Any plans to continue developing with Leap Motion, Unity, and Oculus in 2015? Yup, definitely!

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

According to Stereo Labs, “Through high definition stereo cameras, the headset blends the virtual and real worlds together in an immersive and photorealistic way. Today, Stereo Labs is announcing a new developer kit for a product called “Linq.” Linq’s system for hand tracking is also unique.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Locomotion is one of the biggest challenges in VR development, with solutions ranging from omni-directional treadmills and Blink , to Superman-like flight in Leap Motion demos like Weightless. If you’re building with Unity, this is definitely the way to go. We’re going to have a voice in the background, pretty much bullying you.”

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Using technology like the Leap Motion Controller allows us to use our hands to directly engage virtual instruments, from the plucking of a virtual string to the casting of a sonic fireball. Carillon was really built for VR: the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller are key components in the work.

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Leapmotion

JULY 30, 2016

Creating new 3D hand assets for your Leap Motion projects can be a real challenge. After autorigging, the LeapHands Autorig Inspector console acts as a central control panel to push values to the other Leap Motion rigging scripts. You can get the new module and updated assets on our developer portal.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’re making VR/AR development easier with Widgets: fundamental UI building blocks for Unity. I defined a few interfaces that we agreed every Widget would have to implement – ones that required definitions for Start, End, and Change events – and added implementations to the existing widgets. Daniel here again!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The Grand Prize now in hand, Prenneis says the team have a number of upgrades planned for the immediate future, including a customizable interface, real-time 3D support, and integration of gesture control for Oculus Touch and Leap Motion. Follow the developers on Facebook. That’s the challenge we faced as judges.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 9, 2016

Nonverbal communication has been huge for us, where we can have people wave, give the Fonzi ‘eyyyy, air quotes, thumbs up… especially with Leap Motion Orion. For folks to talk with their hands, it’s definitely a big add as far as making that connection and really seeing that person as another human behind behind the avatar.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Following up on last week’s release of the Leap Motion Interaction Engine , I’m excited to share Weightless: Remastered , a major update to my project that won second place in the first-ever 3D Jam. Within the Leap Motion Interaction Engine, developers can assign Interaction Materials to objects which contain ‘controllers.’

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. I think my background in architecture definitely influences my designs and I’m excited to see how my education can manifest itself in a new medium. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

Future solutions will get rid of clunky wired headsets and move onto glasses that can project a high-definition image onto the eye, a la Magic Leap, and eventually contact lenses that contain tiny screens. This isn’t meant to be an exhaustive list, but if I missed something major, please tell me and I’ll add it.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2019

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. They seem a bit standardized, I don’t know how to explain this. You have no hand controllers, so the only way of navigating the environments is walking.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Because a physical backpack full of 300 items wouldn’t exactly be practical, Fallout 4 VR definitely gets a break when it borrows a majority of its UI from the flatscreen version for its more utilitarian purposes. SEE ALSO Exclusive: Leap Motion Explores Ways to Make Controller-free Input More Intuitive and Immersive.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 18, 2015

It’s a definitely challenging part to design. You essentially have two opposing forces: the need to go around the environment and explore, and your stomach pushing its contents upwards the moment you see a motion but don’t feel it. World of Comenius experiments with navigation using portals and the ability to grab 3D space.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It’s not perfect, but it is definitely a step in the right direction. As for actions such as pulling up menus or teleporting around virtual environments, it’s possible that hand gestures such as the ones used with the Microsoft HoloLens or Leap Motion could resolve this. Not for every experience, but definitely for some.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2018

These are definitely the VR powers you’re looking for…. To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking. It was only a matter of time. Maher Professor of Computer Science and director of the Center for Human Computer Interaction. .

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 5, 2015

True, the surface inside is definitely magical – we can turn it into any number of configurations depending on our immediate needs – but for the most part the 2D interface is very flat. Paper + AR/VR: Designing the Leap Motion Widgets.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I think this definition shows you the faith that VR developers have in commercial BCI devices. MREAL S1 is a passthrough mixed reality headset: it features two high-definition front cameras through which is possible to have augmented reality and augmented virtuality. It is going to be distributed in Japan starting from this month.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: It's actually pretty cool that you say that, because that is one of the use cases that comes in often inbound to us, as companies -- it hasn't happened yet -- but those companies definitely brainstorming around how you track the hands even with just a smartphone, like overlaying something. Alan: We actually did it.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: It's actually pretty cool that you say that, because that is one of the use cases that comes in often inbound to us, as companies -- it hasn't happened yet -- but those companies definitely brainstorming around how you track the hands even with just a smartphone, like overlaying something. Alan: We actually did it.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: It's actually pretty cool that you say that, because that is one of the use cases that comes in often inbound to us, as companies -- it hasn't happened yet -- but those companies definitely brainstorming around how you track the hands even with just a smartphone, like overlaying something. Alan: We actually did it.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

. These are definitely the VR powers you’re looking for…. To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking. It was only a matter of time. Maher Professor of Computer Science and director of the Center for Human Computer Interaction.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This one lets you try out Leap Motion controls as well as the usual position-tracked and gamepad options. Nick is quite possibly the definitive Christmas themed title, flipping jolly old St. There’s potential here but elements need work. Wave Magic VR, from Overrun Games. Price: $5.99 (Rift). Price: Free.

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