VRScout

JUNE 19, 2018

If you’ve seen the movie ‘Ready Player One’ or have been to CES or other recent gaming/technology trade show, then odds are you’re at least somewhat familiar with the concept behind omnidirectional treadmills. An immersive VR locomotion solution that ditches the omnidirectional treadmill design in favor of a swivel chair.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

Dubbed “Waiting for App Lab”, the bundle was meant to unite the powers of little game studios so that to perform together a more powerful marketing campaign and gain more visibility for the apps they provided. As players, I think we all love bundles , they are a fun way to spotlight different sorts of games, to mix them.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The FPS Microgame lets you modify and play first-person shooter games. For example, you can use Scale to change the cube’s dimensions and scroll to the bottom to add a Rigidbody so you can interact with the object you select. For example, you can have single-point interactions, like tracking the hand motion alone.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

If you imagine shuffling the soundtracks in these three examples, you can understand how it would fundamentally change the experience. Sound communicates the inception, success, failure, and overall nature of interactions and game physics, especially when the user’s eyes are drawn elsewhere. Building and Reinforcing Interactions.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 9, 2017

In theory, the gloves could paired with other technologies like a Leap Motion sensor to simulate a wide range of activities. Our final goal is to create a device that provides a richer experience in VR…but you could imagine it being used for surgery and video games, among other applications.”.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 2, 2017

With my left motion controller (in this case Oculus Touch) I can change the tools in my hand to suit a variety of different needs. For example, I can use two hands to pull through the air, creating surfaces with curves in them, making it easy to create a bend in the front of a shoe, for example.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Let me explain this better with an example: if you grab a bottle in real life, your fingers can’t trespass the bottle, because the material of the bottle exerts a force towards your fingers which prevents them to enter. It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training. Comparison with Dexmo Gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

showcased one year ago (Image by Cloudhead games). Owlchemy Labs, Cloudhead Games, etc…). The handle and one of the top buttons can sense the force you’re applying on the controller : this is a game changer for games UX. Until today. Valve Knuckles v1.3, And they are amazing info.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 16, 2014

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. The pair originally worked together at Q-Games on the Playstation 3 title PixelJunk 4am , which also involved layering tracks and visuals.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 9, 2019

. — There were some high-profile flameouts in 2019, including Meta, ODG and Daqri, while others exited below previous funding totals (a veritable down-round), including Leap Motion. A historical example is the 2000’s dot-com bubble. Our research arm ARtillery Intelligence’s recent AR and VR forecasts characterize this.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

From gaming to big data, virtual reality gives us the chance to build and explore whole new worlds beyond the screen. For instance, with the Oculus Rift, cords make it difficult to design a game where you turn 360 degrees. Be sure to check out the full VR example gallery – we’ll have more starter resources for VR development soon!

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Battlespace 3 isn’t a game that you simply pick up from Steam, it’s a full blown simulator intended for training and professional use. One example of this provided by the company was users being able to move their heads independent of aiming when manning vehicle-mounted turrets.

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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. MARCH 2: To match the new capabilities of Leap Motion Orion with the performance demands of VR, we gave our Unity toolset an overhaul from the ground up. Click To Tweet AUG.

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Leapmotion

MAY 3, 2015

We all grew tired of talking about how we wanted to explore VR development, so we allocated several weeks to tinkering with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion — staffing one full-time developer and a few designers part-time. We got things started by downloading the most popular Oculus Rift / Leap Motion demos and giving them a try.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

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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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2017

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. A scene from last month’s Leap Motion internal hackathon. A Living Sculpture.

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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. Click To Tweet With this demo, we have the magic of Leap Motion hand tracking combined with a handheld paddle controller. In other words, its motions must to be physically correct to play the game.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2017

At Leap Motion, our mission is to empower people to interact seamlessly with the digital landscape. Last year, we released an early access beta of the Leap Motion Interaction Engine , a layer that exists between the Unity game engine and real-world hand physics. Contact, Grasp, Hover. The post Interaction Engine 1.0:

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

For example, pushing an on/off button in virtual reality.). For example, pinching the corners of an object and stretching it out. For example, pointing at oneself when referring to another person would feel strange.). It’s the feeling of being “in the zone” on the sports field, or becoming immersed in a game.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Location-based games are already popular, with over a billion downloads of Pokemon Go in the three years since it launched, and over 20B kilometers walked playing the game. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Martin Schubert is a VR Developer/Designer at Leap Motion and the creator of Weightless and Geometric. Instead, we might want to look at what we’re trying to achieve with this virtual spoon and then use the tools within the game engine to achieve that goal. Scoops’ by Reddit user /u/Cinder0us.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I’m Bastien Bourineau, project manager and lead developer at OpenSpace3D, and I’m back to introduce the new OpenSpace3D release with improved Leap Motion support – including how we got around the perennial indexing issue. Another example would be playing piano with notes corresponding to the fingers. Hello again!

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Leapmotion

MAY 1, 2015

From the mouse and touchscreen, to hand tracking platforms like the Leap Motion Controller, the design of UI elements like the humble button is shaped by the hardware and how we use it. For Leap Motion and VR, we recommend that a single finger target should be no smaller than 20 mm in real-world size. Example: Weightless.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

Weightless and Hollow , for example, both include tracks that influence how we experience them. The soft piano tracks of Weightless feel elegant and contemplative: While Hollow puts us in the rural world of Washington Irving with a growing sense of dread: Switch those tracks, and you have two seriously different games. Extra Reading.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 8, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. We see headsets, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs, and body suits. They need software: game engine plugins, compatible content and software utilities. He frequently shares his views and knowledge on his blog.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2016

But before the dinosaur apocalypse, there was A Vox Eclipse – a desktop game that lets you design block creations by combining hand gestures with traditional button controls. “A few friends and I spent the next day or so kicking around ideas that focused on some of the bigger points made during Leap Motion’s presentation.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 8, 2019

There are several companies tackling this issue from several directions, Zero Latency , for example, provides large warehouse-scale spaces to run around in, while Virtuix compacts the experience via its omnidirectional treadmills and VR Arena. Called Mission Modules, 6 are designed to work in one area.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

hours (2 hours of gaming, 2.5 This work makes me understand why Leap Motion has changed completely business model and is not selling the second version of its device as an accessory: soon all headsets will integrate hand tracking out of the box. David of Upload VR instead highlighted how the battery life of only 2-2.5

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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. With the rising popularity of PC gaming and VR, there’s never been a better time to start building with one of the world’s most powerful game engines. GET THE PLUGIN. Rigged Character.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Before the game’s release in July 2016, the words “augmented reality” probably didn’t mean much to the average consumer. According to the numbers, Pokémon Go has a database of more than 500 million , with an average of 20 million players in the US alone powering up the game every day. billion to $50.65

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 2, 2016

With the Leap Motion Unity Core Assets and Modules , you can start building right away with features like custom-designed hands, user interfaces, and event triggers. Each section includes links to more information, including high-level overviews, documentation, and examples. Leap Motion Core Assets. Hands Module.

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Leapmotion

MAY 15, 2015

At a recent Designers + Geeks talk , Jody Medich and Daniel Plemmons talked about some of the discoveries our team has made (and the VR best practices we’ve developed) while building VR experiences with the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller. Here’s what we’ve learned building menus for Leap Motion.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 1, 2016

In rebuilding our Unity developer toolset from the ground up , we started by rearchitecting the interfaces that receive data from the Leap Motion device. Moving up the tech stack, we then refactored most of the mid-level Unity scripts that pair the Leap hand data with 3D models and manages those representations.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 1, 2015

You’ve built incredible things this year, and along the way, we’ve based many of the experiments, resources, and examples found in the Developer Portal on your feedback and feature requests. Most Game-Changing Tool for Self-Expression. The post 2014: A Year in Virtual Superlatives appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward. Today’s spotlight is a double-feature, as development studio VRARlab have two games in the top 20! Hauhet is a futuristic VR puzzle game, while Paper Plane lets you fly a plane through golden rings.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

Using the weather and fire packs, Fnordcorps from Spectacular-Ocular.com has been working on integrating different particle effects into Leap Motion hand controls. It’s an incredible example of how you can optimize for 90-frames-per-second VR, and the whole project is free for download, including its content library.

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