Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly integrated into future mobile VR headsets.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Yesterday, XR hardware developer Varjo unveiled two new additions to its lineup of human eye-resolution VR & AR products, the VR-2 and VR-2 Pro. One of the main goals of SteamVR is to support a diverse ecosystem of hardware and software. Varjo expands its product line-up with two enterprise-focused VR headsets. Image Credit: Varjo.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2016

Leap Motion has announced it’s to early access to the beta of its Interaction Engine , a set of systems designed to help developers implement compelling, realistic and hopefully frustration-free input with just their hands.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 8, 2015

With 25,000 new developers registered since August, there are now over 150,000 developers in more than 186 countries building with Leap Motion technology. In the weeks ahead, you’ll see a lot of new developments on this front, including our next big demo – VR Planetarium. New hardware prototypes. New Widgets for VR.

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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. With HackingEDU just around the corner, Leap Motion is sponsoring the world’s largest education hackathon with over 100 Leap Motion Controllers for attendees to use.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Today on the Air Mozilla livestream , they’re showcasing a variety of new tools and demos, including VRCollage – a demo that we created with Mozilla’s team that brings the concept of 3D web browsing to life. The post Building the 3D Web with Mozilla + Leap Motion appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Click To Tweet Leap Motion goes mobile. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. The reaction from our community was incredible: The Orion beta makes it feel like new hardware. The Blocks demo is mind-blowing. “I spent an hour in this last night.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 5, 2016

Leap Motion adds a whole new level of expression to your virtual avatar – so you can point, wave, or dance. Watch for more Vive-compatible demos on our developer gallery. UE4 has built-in Vive support, and with the new official plugin release in Unreal Engine 4.11 , it’s easier than ever to get started with Leap Motion + Vive.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This weekend, we saw 50+ early submissions to the Leap Motion 3D Jam! With over $75,000 in cash and prizes available to winning teams – including a trip and demo booth at IndieCade East 2015 – we can’t wait to see their final submissions on December 1. This Windows demo uses an Xbox 360 controller to navigate.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. If you’re sensitive to motion sickness, the added latency may cause you to feel uncomfortable. This is not a setup for public demos. Setup your Google Cardboard with Leap Motion Controller. Your VR Prototyping Kit. $63

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At WCVRI , I have tried some cool AR/VR hardware. Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking. North Star AR headset.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

As we developed demos and prototypes with the Oculus Rift internally, several UX insights sprung forth. 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. Noise has a cool article to help get you started.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

From left to right: LEAP Motion motion tracking, flex sensor based motion tracking, exotendon based motion tracking. Leap Motion hand tracking sensor. LEAP Motion. On the controller side, for the past several years, Oculus has been privately demoing their standalone Santa Cruz headset.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking. The most exciting part of the live stage demo at the Intel Developers Forum showed off the intricate hand tracking that uses live images of your real hands.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking. The most exciting part of the live stage demo at the Intel Developers Forum showed off the intricate hand tracking that uses live images of your real hands.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Check out educational 3D Jam demos that take you to the center of the earth, or into the human body. They form part of the unofficial Leap Motion Jp developers group. HomeBright is an easy-to-built hardware project that lets you access convenient controls to your home automation. Education Projects. ChemGrabLab.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 13, 2017

The chip manufacturer occupied a two story main booth, a stage and bleacher for keynotes, with demo stations scattered around as well. Our initial hands-on report of project Alloy was only part of the story , and we came back for a second demo with a different Alloy prototype. No similar point of reference was seen in the second demo.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

In this series of articles, I want to talk about my experience there , giving you some highlights about the hardware I tried, the companies I met, etc… I want to let you feel as if you did this VR travel with me. I think that it’s a great piece of hardware: the 3D effect is solid and the colors are very good.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 20, 2018

At Leap Motion, we’re always looking to advance our interactions in ways that push our hardware and software. With its best-in-class field-of-view, refresh rate, and resolution, the North Star headset has proven to be an exceptional platform for representing high-speed motions with small objects.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog. If you want, you can find it here below!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2024

Ultraleap with tracking cameras The first demo I tried when I entered Ultraleap’s booth was its flagship hand tracking with a VR headset. It was a reference design by Goertek which was mounting no Leap Motion controller. All the fantastic tracking I was seeing required no Ultraleap hardware.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A lot has been going on behind the scenes here at Leap Motion. It’s part hardware, part software, built from the ground up to tackle the unique challenges of hand tracking for VR. Because the shift is so stark, we’re making the software available today for Windows on the Leap Motion Controller.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It was quite the demo (see the video below). 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. .”

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

At the same time, hardware hackers have built their own versions of the AR headset, with new prototypes appearing in Tokyo and New York. But the most surprising developments come from North Carolina, where a 19-year-old AR enthusiast has built multiple North Star headsets and several new demos.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In fact, Intel was already demoing hand tracking this year at CES with their Project Alloy prototype. Thankfully, the team at Leap Motion have been working tirelessly to deliver hand tracking and late last year launched their much more compact hand tracking solution specifically aimed at mobile form factors.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

I hoped that the setup of SenseGlove gloves could have been a bit easier , but being a development kit of experimental hardware, it is not strange that it requires some time. As you can see, the hardware setup is not plug and play. What puzzled me is that there is no software setup. And when it happens, it feels like pure magic.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Sponsors ranging from tech’s biggest players to emerging stealth startups set up shop with APIs and bleeding-edge hardware for collegiate minds to feast on. Leap Motion hacks and mashups, plus lots more photos from a weird, wacky, and wild weekend. (By Leap Learning. Motion Gesture Authentication. Notetastic!

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. GET THE PLUGIN.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

Once it arrives, the new official Leap Motion UE4 plugin should work with it right away. Do Leap Motion demos work with the 1.3 For older demos, you might also want to try a runtime switcher utility. The post Oculus Rift Consumer Edition FAQ appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. counterparts.

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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. Future videos will demonstrate the laser system, sonar, visual system and face recognition, and the Leap Motion input – including a future “snapshot” gesture. Happy Halloween!

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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. As all these demos, it is a short app, it is more a showcase than a real practical app, but it is a great one : it is really well made.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Of course its goal is to give importance to Steam, not to the hardware.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

With countless new virtual worlds just around the corner, the future is already taking shape in hardware labs and hidden codebases around the globe. Last week at Vision Summit , Leap Motion CTO David Holz talked about the rapidly emerging future of VR technologies and what it means for human experience.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Here are some key resources that will help you build compelling experiences that feel natural: Introduction to Motion Control. From Idea to Demo: Your VR Development Roadmap. Fictional UIs vs. Today’s Motion Controls. Along with a setup guide, it includes links to more resources, including demos and documentation.

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Leapmotion

JULY 28, 2015

Designed as an experimental research project for hybrid interfaces, our VR Cockpit demo is now available for Windows (64-bit only) on our Developer Gallery. The demo puts you in control using a combination of Leap Motion interaction and a fully integrated Hands On Throttle and Stick (HOTAS) control system. Make it so.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The consumer virtual reality (VR) market is a tough industry to be in, for hardware and software companies alike. It’s not easy convincing the public of spending £400+ on a device that straps to their face for immersive entertainment.

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