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Leap Motion ‘Virtual Wearable’ AR Prototype is a Potent Glimpse at the Future of Your Smartphone

Road to VR

Leap Motion , a maker of hand-tracking software and hardware, has been experimenting with exactly that, and is teasing some very interesting results. Leap Motion has shown lots of cool stuff that can be done with their hand-tracking technology, but most of it is seen through the lens of VR.

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AR From an Architect’s Perspective, Spatial Computing, & Leap Motion’s North Star AR HMD

Road to VR

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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The Benefits of Virtual Reality in Banking

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Perhaps it wanders to highly visible applications in gaming, film, art, and retail. Additionally, a leap motion 3D controller enabled them to interact with it. What comes to mind when you think of virtual reality ? But with VR poised to be disruptive, most, if not all, industries will be reshaped by it. That includes banking.

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Sensics Releases High Resolution VR Headset Built Specially for Arcades and Theme Parks

Road to VR

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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Walmart Brings Tricked Out ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ VR Experience to Select Stores

Road to VR

Walmart is continuing its onward journey to think outside of the big-box with the help of VR, this time bringing 50-foot tractor-trailers to their megalithic parking lots across the US to let shoppers go head-first into a VR experience for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

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North Star from Leap Motion is the next level of AR interface

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Years ago, Leap Motion made headlines when they released footage of their intuitive Leap Motion device. For those not familiar with their namesake, this peripheral allowed users to control everything on their PCs with intuitive motion controls and gestures, as seen in the video below. pic.twitter.com/SB8SNidbCG.

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AWE 2023 Day 3: Ultraleap new sensor, LetinAR, and the end of the event

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On the last day, I tried many interesting technologies, but I selected two for this summary, which are the first two that I’ve tried: the new Leap Motion Controller by Ultraleap and the AR technology by LetinAR. You can see how it is in this picture, where I’ve put my hand for scale. But at least it was a fun experience!