Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

Arcade and park owners can also opt to include embedded hand/finger trackers like Leap Motion, which sits flush inside the unit behind a window that’s transparent to IR. A choice of two screen options: 2880×1600@90 Hz LCD, or 2160×1200@90 Hz OLED including diffusion film for reduced SDE. image courtesy Sensics.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 9, 2017

Just before tuning in to the Apple WWDC2017 Keynote on Monday, I had a meeting with Jayse Hansen , master of the Fictional User Interface (FUI), Hologram and HUD design for film franchises like Star Wars, Iron Man, and The Hunger Games, and Alex Colgan , Leap Motion ’s digital content and community lead. Read more here.

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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? It’s something crazy that I would like to try.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It’s incredible to work on an experience like Ralph Breaks VR that lets you live inside a film you’ve spent years creating,” said Pamela Ribon, Co-Writer for Ralph Breaks the Internet, writer for Ralph Breaks VR, and voice of B.E.V.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Leap Motion – Leap Motion. Nominees for Interactive VR Media/Film of the Year. Merge VR – Goggles. Google – Daydream View. Samsung – Gear VR. Homido – V2. Nominees for VR Hardware of the Year. Somniacs – Birdly. Oculus – Touch. Nullspace VR – Hardlight Suit.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Blocks – Leap Motion. The Martian VR Experience – Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Innovation Lab, RSA Films, The Virtual Reality Company. Rec Room – Against Gravity. Fantastic Contraption – Northway Games & Radial Games (Winner) . Most Innovative: Pixel Ripped 1989 – Pixel Ripped Inc. Tilt Brush – Google (Winner) .

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Masahiro Yamaguchi (CEO, Psychic VR Lab), God Scorpion (Media artist, Psychic VR Lab), Keiichi Matsuda (VP Design, Leap Motion), Oda Yuda (Designer), Akihiro Fujii (CTO, Psychic VR Lab). Alex Colgan (Leap Motion): What inspired you to build a North Star headset? Recently we caught up with them. You can contact us here.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

We also talk about some of the social dynamics that occur when they mix together the full range of interaction fidelity between hand-tracked Vive, Leap Motion hands in the Rift, and just the head rotation of the Gear VR. — AltspaceVR (@AltspaceVR) May 6, 2016. pic.twitter.com/9x3KGMTbdL.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 31, 2019

Leap Motion North Star calibration combines a foundational principle of Newtonian optics with virtual jiggling. The equally devious solution is to film each eye’s optics from two cameras simultaneously. The post Bending Reality: North Star’s Calibration System appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

This is cool because without having to add external hardware like Leap Motion , all Vive Pro users will be able to use their hands inside VR experiences to interact with the VR environment. The second bomb has been this one: HTC has showcased the implementation of full-fledged hand tracking on the Vive Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

In all of this, someone has created the design for a Leap Motion mount for the Index that exploits the frunk. Companies are studying foveated rendering for AR glasses.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 1, 2015

While in the neighborhood filming Takei’s Take in Austin, the incomparable George Takei swung by the studio to try Shark Punch – an underwater virtual reality experience that enables you to, well, you get the idea. The post 2014: A Year in Virtual Superlatives appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. It’s visually stunning.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This year marks the 120th anniversary of L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat , an early piece of silent film footage that astonished (and by some accounts even terrified) its audience. Every Frame a Painting , an online film analysis series, dives into some of these techniques. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. Once you’ve created content or an application, how will people discover it?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Blocks – Leap Motion. The Martian VR Experience – Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Innovation Lab, RSA Films, The Virtual Reality Company. SEE ALSO Hands On: The Martian VR Experience is a Triumph in Motion. SEE ALSO Open-world Building and Minimalist Game Design with Fantastic Contraption. Pixel Ripped 1989 – Pixel Ripped Inc.

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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. Aside from this, my major work with Leap Motion is my game Robot Chess , a relatively simple game which allows you to use your hands to pick up and move around chess pieces as you play against a robotic AI opponent.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Hand and finger tracking, gesture interfaces, and grip simulation: Leap Motion: Manus VR: Neurodigital: Gestigon: Handpose: Usens: Dexta Robotics: Minority Report (film). Neural plugins: The Matrix (film). Total Recall (film). Avatar (film). Eye tracking: Fove: Eyefluence: SMI: Bladerunner (film).

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of our favorite games at CES was Spot the Leap Motion Controller. Leap Motion #VR technology is everywhere at #CES2017. The post CES 2017: Mixing Realities, Concept Cars, and the #VoiceFirst Revolution appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. " – Jeff Regan #VR #CES2017 pic.twitter.com/dPeNsfZ5fr.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Andy Serkis, the actor-director you may recognize for his award-winning performances as Gollum in the Lord of The Rings film franchise, is lending his likeness to a new AR creation for Magic Leap One headset in what The Hollywood Reporter describes as an “orc-like creature.”

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

With input from a Leap Motion Controller, Hovercast radiates from the palm of your hand – becoming a powerful, versatile extension of your virtual self. The demo requires a Leap Motion Controller and (optionally) an Oculus Rift headset. As you rotate your palm toward your eyes, the Hovercast menu fades into view.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 5, 2015

Paper + AR/VR: Designing the Leap Motion Widgets. The other essential ingredient in this approach is color film – translucent plastic, often used to place in front of lights to change their color. Much like old-fashioned 3D glasses, each colored film blocks out its own color, while allowing others to show.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 28, 2016

The film technique of storyboarding can help in building compelling narratives that capture attention within the VR field of view. Just as the position of the camera within traditional film frames your understanding of the scene, the user’s position within the scene can dramatically shift how they think about the story as it unfolds.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Sundance Film Festival has just kickstarted. The Sundance Film Festival, one of the most important movie festivals happening every year, has just started. UltraLeap (formerly known as Leap Motion) has just launched the 5th iteration of its hands-tracking runtime, called Gemini. Rony Abovitz launches Sun And Thunder.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The game places you inside an otherworldly laboratory littered with oozing green liquids, ghoulish sound effects, and strange wooden machines; an aesthetic similar to something you might see in a Harry Potter film. A voice guides you and encourages you to interact with various objects scattered throughout the lab.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." The film was heavily circulated, covered extensively across media and news outlets when it released.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Well, I mean, he’s done a lot with his various documentary films, trying to bring VR to a larger group of people. In fact, now, I think the films that he had made, if you put those into our 6DOF volumetric player, they’d actually bring even closer to the people that he was filming. Alan: Incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Well, I mean, he’s done a lot with his various documentary films, trying to bring VR to a larger group of people. In fact, now, I think the films that he had made, if you put those into our 6DOF volumetric player, they’d actually bring even closer to the people that he was filming. Alan: Incredible.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

Keiichi Matsuda went from being a dystopian filmmaker to becoming the Vice President of Design at hand-tracking company Leap Motion. Leap Motion recently announced their open source AR HMD reference design called Project North Star , which has a 95° wide by 70° high field of view with 65% stereo overlap & 1,600 × 1,440 per eye.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Chaitanya has had a multi-faceted career in the Indian Film & CreativeArtsIndustry for over 17 years. Sandman Studios’ recent work “Free Whale” and “Fresh Out” are officially selected by 74th and 75th Venice Film Festival VR Competition. Eddie has Dir/Prod India’s 1st Award Winning- Stereoscopic VR Short Film-CRACKLE.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Raindance is a well-established and highly-respected independent film festival, but it isn’t a particularly flashy one. You don a Vive Pro headset, equipped with leap-motion sensors for hand tracking, and are also able to communicate with your partner via voice. Here are some of our favorites. Best Documentary Experience?went

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. They were approaching to their advertisement agency, their usual film producer, production agency to create VR/AR experiences.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. They were approaching to their advertisement agency, their usual film producer, production agency to create VR/AR experiences.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers - Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel -- and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. They were approaching to their advertisement agency, their usual film producer, production agency to create VR/AR experiences.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

This year’s Raindance Film Festival in London showcased an amazing selection of immersive stories. Here’s what got Tech Trends really excited: Raindance is a very well-established and well-respected independent film festival, but it isn’t a particularly flashy one. Yet that lack of over-the-top glamour actually suits it very well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

I have filmed it for you! The front features a glossy plastic lid , that can be removed to uncover the so-called “frunk”, a hole with a USB-3 port , that can be used to attach accessories like Leap Motion to the Index. The top box containing the controllers. The bigger bottom box containing the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (Virtual VR Awards) More info (Cannes Film Festival postponed) More info (Summer GDC) More info (Rokid thermal glasses) More info (HTC faceplate delayed) More info (Google Chrome 81 delayed) More info (Zoom spiking, VR not). Another great UX post by Leap Motion. Amazing demo, have a look at it!

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