Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2016

Leap Motion has announced it’s to early access to the beta of its Interaction Engine , a set of systems designed to help developers implement compelling, realistic and hopefully frustration-free input with just their hands.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Click To Tweet When someone first puts on a Leap Motion-enabled VR headset, it often seems like they’re rediscovering how to use their own hands. With our Interaction Engine Unity package, prototyping these kinds of physically inspired interfaces is easier than ever. Each stage is at your fingertips w/ #LeapMotion #Unity.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

When the Leap Motion Controller is mounted on a VR headset, it can see beyond your virtual field of view, but your hands will occasionally fall out of sensor range. The open-sourced Leap Motion VR Intro uses interactions designed to work seamlessly when your hands are in view – from flying in space to playing with floating spheres.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 2, 2016

Leap Motion’s new Orion software represents a radical shift in our controller’s ability to see your hands. In tandem, we’ve also been giving our Unity toolset an overhaul from the ground up. We started with a brand new LeapC client architecture for streamlined data throughput from the Leap service into Unity.

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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.

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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. On to Unity!

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Leapmotion

MAY 25, 2016

With this week’s Unity Core Asset release , we’ve made a few changes to our Pinch Utilities – including some new features that extend its capabilities! Detectors dispatch standard Unity events when they activate or deactivate. You can find all the Detector scripts, including the PinchDetector, as part of the Unity Core Assets.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more. If you imagine shuffling the soundtracks in these three examples, you can understand how it would fundamentally change the experience.

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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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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Hand Viewer , a brand-new release in our Examples Gallery , gives you an arsenal of onscreen hands to experiment with as you build new desktop experiences with Leap Motion. The post All Hands on Deck: Explore Your Options with Hand Viewer for Unity appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. DOWNLOAD NOW ».

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Leapmotion

JUNE 11, 2016

Unity Widgets are back – with a new name and massively streamlined functionality! Just released for our Unity Core Assets , the UI Input Module provides a simplified interface for physically interacting with World Space Canvases within Unity’s UI System. This utility is used in each of our example Widgets. What’s Inside?

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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. Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object.

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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

JULY 10, 2015

Brain Connectivity , a new example in the Developer Gallery , marks the beginning of a Master’s Thesis project from Biomedical Engineering student Filipe Rodrigues. Leap Motion is a great tool for this.”. The project was primarily built in Unity, utilizing our widgets to cue interaction design. This is Your Brain in VR.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2016

Inspired by apps like Sculpting , Mark’s original idea behind A Vox Eclipse “was that using a combination of physical buttons for activated input and Leap Motion’s hand positioning for a fully 3D cursor could help me interact a lot more effectively by taking best of both worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? All without leaving your editor.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 29, 2015

It’s available free for Windows on the Leap Motion App Store. For example, laser-trapped corridor sections are easily identifiable by their glass walls and reddish lights, while closed doors can be identified by the green glow emitted from their locking mechanisms. Can you delve into how you built the control scheme?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

More info (Example n.1 1 of post about this on Reddit) More info (Example n.2 2 of post about this on Reddit) More info (Example n.3 Then, you can create MR applications, and so code in Unity and at the same time see the preview of your 3D game in 3D in front of you. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit.

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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. Here’s a quick guide to designing buttons and other UI elements for VR, based on our Unity Widgets. Example: Weightless. Above eye level.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 30, 2015

In Unity, for instance, one approach is to set the camera’s near clip plane to be roughly 10 cm out. While the Leap Motion Controller can track more than 2 feet away, the “sweet spot” for tracking is roughly 1 foot from the device. For example, the Oculus Rift DK2 recommends a minimum range of 75 cm. Further Reading.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 29, 2015

Luckily, it’s a classic example of affordance. This is a really simple example, but a powerful one – because affordances are everywhere, and they control your life. Leap Motion and VR open up the potential to combine traditional UX principles with more physical affordances. Leap Motion VR Design Best Practices.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

In this post, we take a look at 4 ways that sound, VR, and motion controls can be a powerful combination. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space, which is absolutely essential to creating a sense of presence. Here are just a few: Unity documentation. Extra Reading.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. With APIs for six programming languages and dozens of platform integrations, the Leap Motion SDK has everything you need to get started. Get started with Unity.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! Using the weather and fire packs, Fnordcorps from Spectacular-Ocular.com has been working on integrating different particle effects into Leap Motion hand controls.

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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. Our UI Widget for Unity had some interesting challenges along the way.

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VRGuy

APRIL 25, 2015

Examples of such peripherals could be head trackers, hand and finger sensors (like Leap Motion and SoftKinetic), gesture control devices (such as the Myo armband and the Nod ring), cameras, eye trackers and many others. Provide optimized connectors to popular engines such as Unity and Unreal.

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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

JULY 30, 2016

Creating new 3D hand assets for your Leap Motion projects can be a real challenge. This has the powerful benefit of being able to quickly iterate between a modeling package and seeing the models driven by live hand motion in Unity. This contains a Leap VR camera rig: LMHeadMountedRig. Step 2A: Separate FBXs.

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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? Unity provides a very natural way for the implementation of VR in your project. How did each idea come about? VRARlab is on Twitter @VRARlab.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 13, 2015

As an optical motion tracking platform , the Leap Motion Controller is fundamentally different from handheld controllers in many ways. For example, grabbing is a distinct action that can signal intent.) EXAMPLE: (Left) What exactly are the fingers on my left hand doing? Dynamic visual feedback is also essential.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’re making VR/AR development easier with Widgets: fundamental UI building blocks for Unity. All Widgets are created using Unity’s Prefab feature. Here’s the prefab structure for buttons as an example: Base Component: ButtonDemoToggle. Wilbur Yu, Unity Engineering Lead. Hi, I’m Wilbur Yu!

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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. Import a 3D model of a spoon into Unity and you’ll be able to see the mesh in full 3D but it won’t do much else. Leap Motion’s Interaction Engine allows human hands to grab virtual objects like physical objects.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

An example of the Windows Holographic user interface. If you want to take VR into another room, for example, you have to find places for the sensors again. Voice input is something Microsoft can do , but hand-tracking is a separate and enormously difficult problem despite companies like Leap Motion working hard at it.

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MARCH 8, 2015

It looked good on paper, but once I started working with it, I quickly realized that most of my time would be spent just trying to get the device to properly communicate with Unity and pair with the OS rather than having fun making stuff. So I switched to the Leap Motion Controller and quickly got my hands in my application.

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AUGUST 27, 2016

Interacting with Leap Motion. I chose to work with optical hand tracking using the Leap Motion Controller in order to perform gestures that were natural to our culture. For example, the red panda spends his time eating ramen or the otter is getting ready to jam with his clam guitar. VRLA Reactions.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Note that some assets (like Image Hands and Widgets) are not currently available for the Orion Unity Core Assets. 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.

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