October, 2014

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Building the 3D Web with Mozilla + Leap Motion

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How pervasive will virtual reality be? VR has the power to fundamentally transform the way we learn, play, share and even browse the web. Mozilla’s recent experiments combining VR and the web pave a path towards virtual presence – pushing beyond disconnected feelings of immersion and bringing us into new places with a life of their own. We’ve been working with Mozilla to make the web a killer app for VR.

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Bending Music and Spacetime with Leap Motion + VR

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Ever wondered how a subatomic particle feels as it accelerates through the supercollider on the road to annihilation? From the developer behind Kyoto and Lotus , Collider is a new audiovisual experience that takes you on a journey through a psychedelic vortex of light and sound. Now featuring full head-mounted support for the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2, Collider brings together raw infrared imagery with full 3D immersion – and it’s available free on the Leap Motion App Store.

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Hacking the Fourth Wall at IndieCade

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San Francisco is a city fueled by the Cloud, both literally and figuratively. (Karl, you’re great – the bearded mystic that keeps a spring in our step and a song in our hearts – but distance makes the heart grow fonder!) So we went down to Los Angeles this weekend for IndieCade to kick off our global 3D Jam. We hit the ground running on Friday with V2 demos for both desktop and virtual reality.

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Leap Motion 3D Jam: Presented by IndieCade

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Developers, start your engines! Starting on October 19th, Leap Motion and IndieCade are kicking off a six-week global competition for developers to build innovative experiences for desktop, virtual reality, and beyond. The range of possibilities is almost unimaginable, so we’ve made the competition as inclusive as possible. Using the Leap Motion Controller for desktop (or with optional VR Developer Mount ) developers can build complete experiences in the categories and genres of their choice – g

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.

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Cal Hacks 2014: Voice-Commanded Virtual Reality and Musical Data

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It’s no secret that for many developers in our community, midnight is the hour when the hacking gets good. Late last Friday night, over 1,000 undergraduates from across the country poured into California Memorial Stadium for Cal Hacks , a 36-hour coding spree put on by Major League Hacking. 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.