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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

The Ghost Howls

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community.

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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. High-resolution imagery and low-latency head-tracking brought people into a virtual environment. Additionally, a leap motion 3D controller enabled them to interact with it. What comes to mind when you think of virtual reality ?

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

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Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. Robust to handling objects: Hyperion offers superior hand tracking while holding an object in your hand, making it perfect for mixed reality.

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Leap Motion’s ‘Interaction Engine’ Unlocks More Natural Human Input for VR

Road to VR

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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10 Projects That Have Us Excited About the Next Generation of VR & AR

Road to VR

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. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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We need camera access to unleash the full potential of Mixed Reality

The Ghost Howls

It is doing that for privacy reasons : if a malicious developer made a cute game and behind the curtains activated the cameras and streamed whatever they saw to its servers, that would be an enormous privacy violation. If you remember that some of the most successful VR games (e.g. Evil developers could easily spy on our homes.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

Along with categories that you would expect, such as gaming and entertainment, I was excited to see a category for VR education and training. Leap MotionLeap Motion. Nominees for VR Game of the Year. Owlchemy Labs & Adult Swim Games – Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality.