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

The Ghost Howls

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive! For example, while holding a physical prop, such as a welding torch, the hand tracking remains robust.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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Reaching into 3D Data, Exploring CAD Designs, Virtual Meetings, and More

Leapmotion

Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Recommended: Google Chrome. Recommended: Google Chrome. Leap Motion enables new ways of using our devices but we still unconsciously use the mouse and keyboard as a model, missing potentially intuitive solutions,” the team told us.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.03.18): Niantic sells Pokemon Go, Meta released passthrough APIs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The approach chosen by Meta is similar to the one that Google promised to take with Android XR. Probably Ultraleap, or even when it was just Leap Motion, should have aimed to be bought by a headset manufacturer before all the major XR brands started developing hand tracking internally.

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OSVR - a Look Ahead

VRGuy

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. Google Glass has not been as successful as hoped. Magic Leap is not commercial yet. It turns out that others share this vision.

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EXCLUSIVE: First details about Valve Deckard have been leaked

The Ghost Howls

AI reconstruction of how the launch of the Deckard may happen The controllers are an optimized version of Valve Index Controllers , smaller and more reliable, even if I’m told that the headset can also track the hands thanks to an integrated Leap Motion controller.