Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

According to a report from Business Insider , earlier this year Apple was on the verge of acquiring Leap Motion, but the deal fell through days before it was expected to close. Founded in 2010, Leap Motion develops leading optical hand-tracking software. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

I have appreciated it a lot, so I thought it could have been a cool idea to make a post for you to describe how it is and compare it with the previous Leap Motion controller. Some weeks ago, I have reviewed the new Leap Motion Gemini (v5) runtime , and I have appreciated its robustness. Are you in?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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. Hands-on with demos. 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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The latest version of Ultraleap’s hand-tracking tech is finally available today on Windows for use with the Leap Motion Controller accessory and promises to improve two-handed interactions, speed, and robustness. Support for MacOS and Linux are expected further down the road.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 15, 2017

A few weeks back I went hands-on with Leap Motion’s mobile VR hand-tracking solution, and now you can see it in action for yourself. The video below shows a build of Leap’s Blocks demo designed for mobile VR headsets like the Qualcomm reference design it’s already been integrated into.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional Leap Motion v1 controller + Leap Motion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for Leap Motion. Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for Leap Motion.

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VRScout

JANUARY 8, 2019

Now, thanks to partnerships with Leap Motion and 7invensun , Pimax is introducing additional functionality in the form of both hand and eye-tracking. Beginning today, all models of the Pimax 5K Plus, 8K, and 5K BE headsets will include Leap Motion embedded modules. Image Credit: Pimax VR. Image Credit: Pimax VR.

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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. There was a demo that let me slide and click elements on various UIs using only micro gestures.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 11, 2024

When I was at AWE, one of the demos I was the most curious about was the one of Distance Technologies, the company that promises to offer glasses-free augmented reality. Side view of the optical setup, with a horizontal surface and a reclined glass In front of this setup, there was a Leap Motion Controller 2 sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2022

Ultraleap Stratos Explore is the product for which Ultrahaptics (which later became Ultraleap after the fusion with Leap Motion) was famous. Ultraleap Stratos presents itself as a square box with a lot of tiny cylinders on it and a Leap Motion controller to track the hands. Ultraleap Stratos Explore.

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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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MARCH 2, 2017

Hand-tracking looks likely to play a big part in that future, and Leap Motion is one of a few companies leading the charge in this department. Leap’s latest, well, leap is to bring its controller-free hand tracking tech to mobile VR headsets. Tagged with: hand tracking , leap motion , qualcomm , standalone.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. However, I had to manually switch between unity packages to demo different apps which led me to taking on and off the headset constantly. .

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The company’s latest product demo, which they call PinMR “8K”, sources imagery from two 5-inch 4K LCD displays held within a fixed viewing frame. The demo wasn’t without its downsides though. SEE ALSO Hands-on: HoloLens 2 is a More Than Just a Larger Field of View. Photo by Road to VR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 16, 2019

For more natural hands-on interactions, Varjo’s VR-2 Pro features built-in Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion) hand-tracking technology that removes the need of physical controllers and letting users engage with the VR environment using their own two hands. Image Credit: Varjo. Image Credit: Varjo. Image Credit: Varjo.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 3, 2023

On the last day, I tried many interesting technologies, but I selected two for this summary, which are the first two that I’ve tried: the new Leap Motion Controller by Ultraleap and the AR technology by LetinAR. The demo here was just about using gestures to make an engine 3D model to be exploded into its component.

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Upload VR

JUNE 19, 2024

0:00 / 1:18 1× I noticed some missed gestures in the demo and implementing sensors like these directly into a headset would probably require another sensor installed on the other side to see left-hand movements.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 24, 2016

Leap Motion shows off Interaction Engine for their VR hand-tracking tech VR makes the most sense when you don’t have to learn the controls and stuff just works. The company already showed off an early version of their Interaction Engine this past February with the “blocks demo” of their updated Orion tracking platform.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So, while reading this article, imagine that everything is actually a bit better on the final device I really thank Varjo people for letting me try this unit of the XR-4 with such a little notice: Helsinki is not exactly close to my home, so they were incredibly kind to do everything they could to give a decent demo of the XR-4 to me.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. During a demo on stage, it has been shown that the hands are the primary means of interface with the UI of HoloLens 2. We had a brief glimpse of its UI and it seemed an improvement of the one of HoloLens v1.

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VRScout

AUGUST 26, 2016

Launched back in 2012, Leap Motion first introduced us to their new way of interacting with computers in three dimensions. At the time, the Leap Motion sensor sat on your desk or was built into your keyboard, allowing for natural hand and finger movement tracking. There was one thing — the device never really caught on.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

To that end, DigiLens is building a reference headset which it called ‘AR HUD’—not a product itself, but a demo aimed at other companies who may want to manufacture their own AR headsets which incorporate DigiLens’ technology. DigiLens says its in the process of demoing the AR HUD reference headset to potential partners.

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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.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2020

While Volkmar, the guy demoing Varjo VR-2 to me, was loading the main application, I found myself in a home environment that was a grid of squares, so spotting imperfections was quite easy. The demo featured eye-tracking , to measure how much time you were looking at items in a supermarket. It’s fantastic. Eye-tracking.

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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

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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

As usual, I have also prepared a video review of NextMind, with a thorough analysis of its features, its SDK, and also a video showcasing to you all the technical demos that the company is offering together with the sensor. Hands-on with the demos. NextMind Video Review. If you like detailed video reviews, this one is for you!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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. First of all, the choice of the demo program has been very weird.

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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! Jan’s next major project is one that he started with a small demo for the 2015 3D Jam – NexusVR. There is no return from that.”.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 25, 2023

Because of technical issues, I haven’t been able to try the whole demo, but from what I could see , the tracking of the finger pose looked accurate. I tried two demos with these glasses: the first one was just a video playing attached to my head.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Leap Motion is a young technology company that is perhaps best known at this point for what it sells at your local Best Buy. The presence of a Gear VR in the demo room is significant for Leap Motion. Tagged with: finger tracking , hand tracking , leap motion , peripheral , tracking. It’s a $79.99

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2018

Spacee will be the first to tell you that what they are offering is not the same as something like Microsoft HoloLens, Leap Motion, or Magic Leap technology. What is really impressive about Post Mobile AR is that since it is completely digital, it doesn’t need actual products to run demos.

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