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

The Ghost Howls

It was pretty cool using it inside a discotheque The tools we had were very limited: the Vive Focus had just a Snapdragon 835 processor, the image was black and white and low-resolution, we had to do everything at the Unity software level, and we had no environment understanding. Meta already does that with some features (e.g.

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Design Sprints at Leap Motion: Building a Sculpture Prototype with the Graphic Renderer

Leapmotion

Recently we created a quick VR sculpture prototype that combines the latest and greatest of these tools. Click To Tweet The Leap Motion Interaction Engine lets developers give their virtual objects the ability to be picked up, thrown, nudged, swatted, smooshed, or poked. Rapid Prototyping and Development at Leap Motion.

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

The Ghost Howls

If you’re following this tutorial, I assume you already know: How to install Unity and all the Android Tools; How to put your Quest in developer mode; How to develop a basic Unity application for the Quest. I think Oculus has to improve its SDK to make these interactions easier to be implemented (or document how to implement them).

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What is MRTK-Unity? – Mixed Reality ToolKit

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

Some days ago, in the Oculus Developer portal, have appeared some surprise banners warning developers about the documentation also regarding an “Oculus Del Mar” headset, for which there are “early developers”. And also some people of my family are now enjoying it since it is a great tool to escape the isolation we are forced into.

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Bring Your Own Hands Into Virtual Reality

Leapmotion

You can also try it yourself in our updated UI Widgets demo and the latest version of ElementL: Ghost Story , or learn more from the official documentation. The part of the mesh that you can see is covered by the passthrough from the twin Leap Motion cameras. The Image Hand is available now as part of our Unity Core Assets.

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Live from Berlin! VR Workshops for Unity & JavaScript

Leapmotion

As part of our global tour for the Leap Motion 3D Jam , we’re at Berlin’s Game Science Centre to take developers through our SDK and building with the latest VR tools. Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. Hey everyone! Why Hands in VR? Escaping from Flatland.

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