The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

The SDK will support eye-tracked foveation and fixed foveation (like the one of Oculus Go); The Vive Focus will soon have finger tracking : for every hand, you will be able to have something similar to what Leap Motion offers. The 8 modes of the Vive Focus Plus.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking. This article was written by Rob “RoblemVR” Crasco @ roblemVR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking. This article was written by Rob “RoblemVR” Crasco.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

One month ago, I’ve participated in the Stereopsia event in Bruxelles (Belgium) to perform a talk about how to organize an event in virtual reality. A guy and a girl from Prague showcased in Stereopsia a simple demo where you could play the piano with a Vive with a Leap Motion mounted on. VR Pianist.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2016

She shot a video of of her co-worker in VR trying out the latest Leap Motion Orion update, and tweeted it out saying “This is the future.” the people in a virtual reality with our leaders walking by us. Here’s the image that Mark posted to his Facebook account: is this picture an allegory of our future

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). Leap Motion) on the same headset. No one speaks well in English, seriously.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The system is already used on the $3,000 HoloLens, an advanced augmented reality system, but with it employed on a low-cost VR headset Microsoft may have leapfrogged efforts by both Facebook and Google, powered by Windows.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 8, 2015

With 25,000 new developers registered since August, there are now over 150,000 developers in more than 186 countries building with Leap Motion technology. With new resources being added for GearVR and Google Cardboard, we’re looking forward to bringing the SDK to public developer beta very soon. New Widgets for VR.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2016

The annual Proto Awards, set up to highlight and honour the best and brightest the VR industry has to offer, is over for another year, with Google’s Tilt Brush walking away as the overall winner. Pearl – Google Spotlight Studios. Tilt Brush – Google. Most Innovative: Tilt Brush – Google (Winner). The Lab – Valve.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

It has bought the hand-tracking company Leap Motion various months ago for $30M since the two hardware are a perfect fit the one for the other. The bad is that they are just audio smartglasses, that only provide audio directly to your ears and nothing more; Iristick has started offering its smart glasses that look like Google Glass.

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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). What virtual avatars, creatures, information layers or interactive components are here. “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Most high-end virtual reality headsets today use what’s called outside-in positional tracking. This system makes the headset dependent on static hardware, however, and so top engineers at Oculus , HTC and Google are all racing to crack the inside-out code first. Linq’s system for hand tracking is also unique.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Click To Tweet When someone first puts on a Leap Motion-enabled VR headset, it often seems like they’re rediscovering how to use their own hands. When we bring our hands into a virtual space, we also bring a lifetime’s worth of physical biases with us. From Flat Screens to VR Interfaces. In a sense, they are.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. 15 for a Google Cardboard viewer. Setup your Google Cardboard with Leap Motion Controller. Once the Leap Motion Controller is properly mounted, use the USB extender to plug the controller into your computer.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

At worst, use Google Translate. Personally, I have made the first translation with Google Translate, then I asked my assistant Miss S to check and correct the translation. Since when you are in China it is more difficult to buy stuff (language barrier, Google services blocked, etc…), try to buy the most while you are at home.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

This is also an answer to Lenovo Mirage Solo, that lets you directly install apps from Google Play. This resembles a lot a feature that Google was researching and that was shown by Road To VR… so it seems that sooner or later all 3 DOF controllers will become 6 DOF ones. Now sorry but I have to play a bit with my new Focus 2.0!

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 12- Tipatat Chennavasin.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. It showed me that virtual reality has only scratched the surface. Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Designed for the Oculus Rift, it’s available free for Mac and Windows on the Leap Motion App Store. Over time, my interest shifted to Unity3D, and now I love to tinker with new hardware like the Leap Motion, Oculus Rift, or Kinect – which led to experiments like Hoverboard VR , Polyrider , and Soundscape VR.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 6, 2015

This weekend, Team Leap Motion made the trip from San Francisco to join over 1500 students at the Pauley Pavilion for LA Hacks. 3D design always gets us excited at Leap Motion, and this experimental Autodesk Maya 2015 integration made a big impression. Map Motion.

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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. While we love to chart new territory, the monthly SFHTML5 meetup at Google SF holds a special place in our hearts.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

OC5 celebrates the last 5 years of virtual reality breakthroughs and gives us a glimpse of what’s to come in the next five years. Standalone virtual reality headsets are an all-in-one device that can power virtual reality on their own, with no computer or phone tethering needed. Google Cardboard ($15) .

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Leapmotion

APRIL 22, 2014

Experimental headsets are changing how we see the world, either by creating the virtual worlds of our imaginations, like the Oculus Rift, or adding ghostly layers on top of the real world, like Google Glass. At the same time, GetVu wants to bring a new level of control to augmented reality with Leap Motion technology.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 5, 2015

These are just some of the videos that you can dive into with Kolor’s 360° video player Kolor Eyes, now featured on the Leap Motion Developer Gallery. Kolor’s platform works by stitching together panoramic videos into massive virtual experiences that let you look anywhere within the scene.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

. “To improve the usability of virtual keyboards for text input,” says creator Soma, “I investigated key selection methods and shapes and layouts of virtual keys, then proposed a new user interface design utilizing tip pinch, and implemented a prototype application. Recommended: Google Chrome. Requires: Webcam.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

With Paper Plane , we studied the basic features of Leap Motion using fairly simple mechanics. The idea for Hauhet came during the discussion about different ways to look at interaction in virtual reality. What was it like incorporating Leap Motion into your Unity workflow? How did each idea come about?

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Leapmotion

MAY 15, 2015

At a recent Designers + Geeks talk , Jody Medich and Daniel Plemmons talked about some of the discoveries our team has made (and the VR best practices we’ve developed) while building VR experiences with the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller. Here’s what we’ve learned building menus for Leap Motion.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Virtual Reality is here to stay Virtual Reality (VR) invites you to explore alternative worlds as if you’re actually there. Simply take your smartphone and a headset and discover virtual spaces, games, and much more. Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Google Play / iOS Appstore.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Virtual Reality is here to stay Virtual Reality (VR) invites you to explore alternative worlds as if you’re actually there. Simply take your smartphone and a headset and discover virtual spaces, games, and much more. Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Google Play / iOS Appstore.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Created by Cipher Prime based on their art show We’ve Traveled So Far , #Headlight is an impressively innovative use of Leap Motion’s image passthrough – generating a Tron-style stream of liquid light that streams across the 3D objects captured by the twin infrared cameras. ” Recommended: Google Chrome.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Before the game’s release in July 2016, the words “augmented reality” probably didn’t mean much to the average consumer. Despite being an emerging concept for the last few years, Google’s April Fools-joke-turned-into-reality made the technology a mass hit. UCI Google Glass.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 15, 2018

How could we place, stack, and assemble virtual objects quickly and accurately while preserving the nuance and richness of full physics simulation? Check out our results below or download the example demo from the Leap Motion Gallery. Even in VR we see early examples like the very nice implementation in Google Blocks.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 9, 2016

Nonverbal communication has been huge for us, where we can have people wave, give the Fonzi ‘eyyyy, air quotes, thumbs up… especially with Leap Motion Orion. What’s best about the hand tracking from Leap Motion is that it’s feeding from the actual hands from the person. That stuff just comes across so wonderfully.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

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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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The Oculus Best Practices , Designing for Google Cardboard , and other resources cover this issue in great detail, but no guide to VR design and development would be complete without it. On the other hand, being able to control movement reduces the experience of motion sickness.

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