Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Ultraleap’s hand tracking technology has found its way into enterprise virtual reality (VR) headsets like VRgineers’ XTAL or the Varjo VR-2 Pro but for consumers, it was a case of tacking on the Leap Motion controller. But thanks to a new collaboration with Pimax that could soon be a thing of the past.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

With an emphasis on active experiences and the success of tracked controllers, keyboard and mouse input has become virtually nonexistent. Today, as more companies enter the VR headset game and input devices continue to see rapid technological advancement, there are now more ways than ever to get your hands into VR. Noitom Hi5.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

While there’s certainly a range of exciting games and other VR software coming soon to first-generation hardware, it feels like the market is steadily turning its attention toward next-generation technologies, and fostering a renewed sense of excitement and momentum. Leap Motion North Star.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Click To Tweet Leap Motion goes mobile. 5: The next generation of mobile VR headsets will feature new sensors with higher performance, lower power, and 180×180 degrees of tracking. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. Orion: next-generation hand tracking for VR.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

Holovis’ press release describes some of its interactivity achieved via hand tracking – “riders could explore things in the cab, such as change the radio station, scroll through the news and pick up elements that fall from the glove box as it opens during the first inversion”. image courtesy Holovis.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Today Ultraleap has officially released Gemini, the fifth-version of the hands tracking runtime. As usual, this article comes with a video version where I show you my hands-on session with Ultraleap Gemini! Ultraleap Gemini is not ready to develop boxing games. Ultraleap Gemini.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 23, 2014

library, Mozilla has created a stereoscopic camera and provided a WebGL API that pulls sensor data into the experience – including Leap Motion hand tracking and head orientation/positioning. The post Building the 3D Web with Mozilla + Leap Motion appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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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. Whether you’re giving people the power to grab a skeleton , reaching into a human heart , or teaching anyone how to program , hands are powerful. Getting Started with Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Simple interactivity with the orbs is possible with motion control; the experience will support all major VR hardware, but is likely to feel most engaging when used with the Leap Motion hand tracking system. And I believe Where Thoughts Go will grow beyond anyone’s imagination.”.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. I hate this.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Quest hand tracking is perfect for slower experiences with light interaction. During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it.

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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. That’s right – table tennis.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

This realism is offered through three main features: Fingers tracking : Senseglove can detect the orientation of your hand and also the bending angle of your fingers. It can so be used as a hand tracking device; Vibrotactile feedback : SenseGlove has some motors that can vibrate so that you feel vibrations on your fingertips.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). What will happen next? Top news of the week. Image by HP). HP launches Reverb G2 headset. There will also be 5G connectivity.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 7, 2017

This week we hit the CES showfloor in Las Vegas with two missions: share our Mobile VR Platform with the world and play “spot Leap Motion in the wild.”. What is Leap Motion? We make technology for VR/AR that tracks the movement of your hands and fingers. All three are crucial for hands in VR.

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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. Unity is a powerful game engine that makes it easy to rapidly build and develop VR and desktop projects. Thinking Outside the Mouse. The Sensor is Always On. Get started with Unreal.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2018

Indie studio Hyperbolic Magnetism announced ahead of the Sony conference that their VR rhythm game is on its way to PlayStation VR later this year. The game sold over 100,000 copies in its first month of availability on PC VR devices, and is set to launch on Sony’s platform with a new song, and potentially more content.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

VR has the power to transform our lives and connect us in new ways, while hand tracking lets you reach beyond the digital divide and take control. This is my first experience making a game, and I’m happy with how cool it is! Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” ” Requires: Windows.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 3, 2023

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.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. During a demo on stage, it has been shown that the hands are the primary means of interface with the UI of HoloLens 2. Eye tracking. Real-time tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This week I have been pretty busy working on our mixed reality fitness game that is very close to launch and in preparing some amazing articles for next week (I will publish a review of the Valve Index and a super-amazing interview to Jeri Ellsworth, the creator of TiltFive augmented reality glasses!) I would really love to have it!

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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. The goal was to build a cohesive VR interface that plays nicely with both hardware’s current limitations.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 11, 2022

Ultraleap Gemini is a fifth-generation hand-tracking platform that supports virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) solutions, and has been designed to provide immersive, realistic, and interactive computing experiences. Interact with both hands together. In VR, Gemini makes it easier than ever to use two hands.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

On the hardware side, the only thing that you have to do (apart from charging the battery), is attaching the sensor to the headband, and put your headband around your head, making sure that the sensor stays on your nape. action games). Hands-on with the demos. Well, the setup is exactly in line with this approach.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is now just the brand of a hardware product (for now) and nothing more. After a long silence, Respawn Entertainment has finally released some new info about the upcoming AAA VR game Medal Of Honor: Above and beyond. The game is coming during the Holidays 2020 and will feature amazing multiplayer features. (Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

hours (2 hours of gaming, 2.5 Alongside the work on the Half Dome, they also showcased very interesting works in various research areas , like: Markerless hand tracking : mixing computer vision and artificial intelligence, Facebook/Oculus has been able to create a markerless and gloveless hand tracking technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. Alan: We actually did it.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. Alan: We actually did it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

Watching a movie from your Netflix app or playing some kind of games on a big screen in VR can be far more interesting than seeing it on a little device: you can feel yourself as being in a cinema. Furthermore, the accuracy has to be evaluated … hand tracking is damn hard and we don’t want our virtual controller to jitter.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2017

At Leap Motion, our mission is to empower people to interact seamlessly with the digital landscape. This starts with tracking hands and fingers with such speed and precision that the barrier between the digital and physical worlds begins to blur. But hand tracking alone isn’t enough to capture human intention.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. Alan: We actually did it.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We’ve joined forces with Qualcomm Technologies to combine their Snapdragon 835 mobile platform with our embedded hand tracking technology so that people can interact with mobile VR content using their bare hands. Your hands should be free to reach directly into #MobileVR.

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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.

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