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Triton Project is an affordable DIY AR headset

The Ghost Howls

Then for the next 6 months I built the platform and documented everything to be replicated by the community both in the user experience and pure excitement as AR brings your surface to life. . This is the official documented guide for building a Triton headset. Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking.

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

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For instance, according to its documentation , Lynx R-1 will allow for the retrieval of the camera images Use a PC headset: on PC things are much more open than on Android, and usually it’s easier to “find a way” Use additional hardware. And recently Leap Motion has become compatible with standalone headsets like Pico ones.

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Leap Motion’s Interaction Engine Lets You Get a Grip in VR

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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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WCVRI: Hands-on with new North Star headset, Virtualizer 2, Pareal VR and more!

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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. In March, in Shenzhen, I have met Noah Zerkin , a genius that has found a way to transform this project from some documents on GitHub to a real headset.

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How to get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK in Unity

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I think Oculus has to improve its SDK to make these interactions easier to be implemented (or document how to implement them). the ones from Leap Motion). All the rest is just logic to change the color of the cube… standard stuff if you already know how to use Unity. At this point, we’re ready to build!

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Analyzing Oculus Santa Cruz patent images

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Here you are some images from that document, with some comment of mine. attaching Leap Motion through an adapter). The patent in question is the USD819635S and can be accessed at this link. Inside it, there is the proposed design for a headset that really looks like the Santa Cruz.

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SenseGlove review: a nice DK1 for force-feedback in VR

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The finger tracking can be improved and it is worse than the one of Leap Motion, also because every finger has not all its DOF tracked. It has also a PDF with all the classes references, so that in case of need you have already a big documentation that can help you. you can feel when a drilling machine is on).

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