Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

As we developed demos and prototypes with the Oculus Rift internally, several UX insights sprung forth. 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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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

There were several announcements at Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) this year that could have taken the top spot. Oculus Link for example or Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond are two worthy mentions, yet it must be the experimental hand tracking feature for Oculus Quest that takes home the crown, especially after testing the technology first-hand.

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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.). Leap Motion Orion tracking was designed with simple physical interactions in mind, starting with pinch and grab.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 2, 2017

Between Google’s Tilt Brush and Blocks and Oculus’ Medium and Quill you might not think there’s much room for more creative experiences within VR. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

Some weeks ago, a group of 12 indie development studios decided to launch the first bundle dedicated to App Lab experiences for Oculus Quest. The user could buy the bundle and get access to sideloadable versions of the games, with the promise of a free key for when the game would have been approved by Oculus on App Lab.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Voice command – Examples and scripts for incorporating speech input.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2016

Putting on the glove and seating the individual haptic units onto the tips of my fingers correctly, I was put through a virtual torture chamber of iceguns, flame throwers, needle machines, and electric shocks to demonstrate the haptic power of the glove while using the Oculus Rift DK2.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Virtual Battlespace 3 , a professional simulation experience from Bohemia Interactive Simulations, today added support for the Oculus Rift’s consumer version (CV1) and the HTC Vive as part of its v3.9.2 Others have also replaced other wide field of view display solutions with the Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

One of the biggest drawbacks of HTC Vive headsets with regard to Oculus Rift are the controllers: while Oculus Touch is ergonomic and can emulate the hands quite well, Vive has controllers that are quite big and are usable only as wands. Oculus Touch Controllers. and can also produce confusing interfaces. Knuckles EV2.

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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. Widgets and Wearable Interfaces.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 30, 2015

While the Leap Motion Controller can track more than 2 feet away, the “sweet spot” for tracking is roughly 1 foot from the device. However, with headsets like the Oculus Rift, the user’s eye lenses remain focused at infinity. For example, the Oculus Rift DK2 recommends a minimum range of 75 cm.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. Header image by Leap Motion).

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 29, 2015

Players can pilot the ship with their head using the Oculus Rift DK2, while freeing up his or her hands to control the weapon system. It’s available free for Windows on the Leap Motion App Store. After developing for Leap Motion and VR with Unity, do you have any cautionary tales from the trenches? Yup, definitely!

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

An example of the Windows Holographic user interface. A Rift from Facebook-owned Oculus or a Vive from HTC can track your head throughout a room, but these “outside-in” systems require careful placement, or mounting, of sensors around the perimeter of the room for a full experience. “The strategy has become clear.

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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. Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. GET THE PLUGIN.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 2, 2016

This was driven by what we’ve learned from several years of developing with Leap Motion hands and an eye towards both performance and workflow. This means that you can now see Leap Motion hand models – 3D representations with Leap IHandModel scripts attached – in the Unity Editor hierarchy window and in the scene view at editor time.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

Oculus Go launch. We all knew that Oculus Go would have been launched at F8 and this has been the case. And not only online on Oculus website, but also on Amazon and Best Buy supermarkets : before the conference, lots of people started posting on Reddit the pictures of the Go being already inside Best Buy shopping centers.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

Weightless and Hollow , for example, both include tracks that influence how we experience them. With headsets like the Oculus Rift, the user’s eye lenses will remain focused at infinity. First-time Leap Motion users often master interactions faster when they are guided to stay within optimal tracking range.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

With APIs for six programming languages and dozens of platform integrations, the Leap Motion SDK has everything you need to get started. Here’s a four-minute guide to building your first Unity VR demo: Along with a full Leap Motion + Oculus 0.7 Thinking Outside the Mouse. The Sensor is Always On. LeapJS and WebVR.

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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. The experience used an Oculus DK1 (vintage!) The post 2014: A Year in Virtual Superlatives appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset. Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Head frame of reference.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

For example, pointing at oneself when referring to another person feels foreign. In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner. For example, if you say “pump your fist,” the user could interpret this in many different ways.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Moreover, Leap Motion , a device that can be attached to the Vive’s front, has the ability to accurately track your hands with VR applications. Thanks to LibreVR/Revive project, Vive users can also play some of the Oculus Rift exclusive titles.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

With Paper Plane , we studied the basic features of Leap Motion using fairly simple mechanics. What was it like incorporating Leap Motion into your Unity workflow? On our YouTube channel , for example, we show how to combine the Oculus and iPhone , turning it into the input device.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. It can still be found on Oculus Share, although it’s quite old now. I’ve also built a couple of smaller proof-of-concept pieces that people may have seen on the leapmotion or oculus subreddits.

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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 been made in plastic so that to be more affordable for companies that want to buy it.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

My recent interest in virtual reality and Leap Motion input led to several interesting project ideas. For example, the developer could create renderers that display the menu segments as circles, or even spheres – all with different visual indicators, icons, etc. Developing with Leap Motion Tracking.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Moreover, Leap Motion , a device that can be attached to the Vive’s front, has the ability to accurately track your hands with VR applications. Thanks to LibreVR/Revive project, Vive users can also play some of the Oculus Rift exclusive titles.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device. Starting with the Device itself: today we use smartphones, and tomorrow we may be using some kind of headset, glasses or audio-only wearable, with different kinds of control or head/gaze tracking.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The Oculus Best Practices , Designing for Google Cardboard , and other resources cover this issue in great detail, but no guide to VR design and development would be complete without it. As a result, designing interactions for human beings means that you’ll need to be fairly forgiving of inaccurate motions. Never make your users sick.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Picking up awards at two industry shows, VR Roulette combined Oculus Rift and Leap Motion controller s to plunge players into a virtually interactive casino. For example, take a slot game like Satoshi’s Secret on VegasCasino.io. Indeed, AR could bring a new dimension to a host of games.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

For example, you can use the Oculus Rift sensor instead of the OSVR sensor. There are also scripts available for the PlayStation Move controllers and It will only be a matter of time until the VR Oculus Touch controller can be added to this list. That way you can also you do a lot of fun tricks.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Many developers are also using Oculus Medium to rapidly prototype scenes before committing to more robust scene designs. …while a broad sweeping motion turns off gravity – a force that exists outside yourself and “in the world.”. They also captured Oculus Story Studio a well-deserved Emmy. Character Presence.

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