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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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 24, 2016

Leap Motion shows off Interaction Engine for their VR hand-tracking tech VR makes the most sense when you don’t have to learn the controls and stuff just works. In a blog post, the company calls the engine “a layer that exists between the Unity game engine and real-world hand physics.” Read more here.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

The headset should also provide hand tracking, eye tracking and reverse passthrough , so people should be able to see the eye of the wearer. They are dubbed “Meta Touch Plus”, and they work (as I predicted last week) by fusing the data of IMU, IR LED tracking, and hand tracking together.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Combined with hand tracking and visual feedback, sound even has the power to create the illusion of tactile sensation. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2022

With tracking technologies, companies can build more immersive experiences for XR users. Eye tracking helps users to navigate a space more effectively, while improving software performance and minimising discomfort. Hand tracking, on the other hand, ensures individuals can interact more effectively with virtual content.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A lot has been going on behind the scenes here at Leap Motion. It’s part hardware, part software, built from the ground up to tackle the unique challenges of hand tracking for VR. Orion software represents a radical shift in how we do hand tracking. We’ve unlocked lower latency. Longer range.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? All without leaving your editor.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Creating remote MR productions Hand Tracking Thanks to the release of the Oculus Quest, one of the most popular UI in XR today is the hand tracking input. The system is technically compatible with hand tracking, but it is not natively supported. Augmented reality (AR) is the future of Restaurant Menu?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

A future runtime could offer more functionalities , a bit like it has happened with Leap Motion that in 2012 was a rough accessory and now is an amazing hands tracking device. Hands-on with the demos. The Unity SDK for NextMind is just fantastic. Registering to the events of the NeuroTag (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Mova will be a 6DOF headset with 2 tracking cameras, working natively only with hands tracking (there is a controller for fallback, though). Controllers are fundamental for interactions in most VR experiences and hands tracking is only good for watching videos, go on social XR worlds, and play simple games.

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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. This opens up the possibility of delivering content ranging from elaborate WebGL experiences to apps built in Unity/C# or C++.

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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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Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

Early last month, Leap Motion kicked off our internal hackathon with a round of pitch sessions. One of our tracking engineers suggested using our prototype Dragonfly module to augment a physical display with virtual widgets. Flat digital interfaces were not designed for hands. Leap Motion.

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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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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As mainstream VR/AR input continues to evolve – from the early days of gaze-only input to wand-style controllers and fully articulated hand tracking – so too are the virtual user interfaces we interact with. When we bring our hands into a virtual space, we also bring a lifetime’s worth of physical biases with us. Ending contact.

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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. We got things started by downloading the most popular Oculus Rift / Leap Motion demos and giving them a try.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

To achieve their mission of delivering highly immersive, productive, and engaging experiences, Meta invests heavily in tracking technologies. Tools like the Oculus already come with hand tracking functionality, to help users interact with some software on a hands-free basis. Unity and Magic Leap.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 21, 2017

strLast time, we looked at how an interactive VR sculpture could be created with the Leap Motion Graphic Renderer as part of an experiment in interaction design. The Leap Motion Interaction Engine provides the foundation for hand-centric VR interaction design.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

As part of our global tour for the Leap Motion 3D Jam , we’re at Berlin’s Game Science Centre to take developers through our SDK and building with the latest VR tools. Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. Why Hands in VR? Hey everyone! and Oculus 0.5

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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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Leapmotion

MAY 2, 2015

The department had done quite a bit of animation interface design with Leap Motion and and 2D screens, so he said maybe I could do the same, but this time with the Oculus Rift.”. In its current iteration, Jere’s VR animation tool uses our Unity UI widgets. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Voice input is something Microsoft can do , but hand-tracking is a separate and enormously difficult problem despite companies like Leap Motion working hard at it. “We’ve experimented with input devices communicating over Wi-Fi to the HoloLens and sending real-time X,Y,Z coordinates in Unity,” Zachary wrote.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 11, 2016

Unity Widgets are back – with a new name and massively streamlined functionality! Just released for our Unity Core Assets , the UI Input Module provides a simplified interface for physically interacting with World Space Canvases within Unity’s UI System. What’s Inside? The UI Input Module aims to do just that. Quick Setup Guide.

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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. Here’s a quick guide to designing buttons and other UI elements for VR, based on our Unity Widgets. Everything Should Be Reactive.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. In this post, we take a look at 4 ways that sound, VR, and motion controls can be a powerful combination. Tracking Boundaries. Here are just a few: Unity documentation.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. Today, Charles River Analytics – a developer of intelligent systems solutions – has announced the launch of the Virtuoso Software Development Kit (VSDK), to aid speedy development of AR and VR experiences.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

VR, AR and hand tracking are often considered to be futuristic technologies, but they also have the potential to be the easiest to use. This is the core of our mission at Leap Motion. The interface fades away, and it’s just you… in a space… exploring an exploded cat with your hands.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 29, 2015

Leap Motion and VR open up the potential to combine traditional UX principles with more physical affordances. Classic 2D design principles can be adapted for hand tracking in VR in unexpected ways. Leap Motion VR Design Best Practices. 4 Design Problems for VR Tracking (And How to Solve Them).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Users can access over 100 third-party applications and engines, including Unreal Engine and Unity. User experience: Inside-out tracking and intuitive controllers create an exceptional user experience. Tracking options: Users can configure their headset for SteamVR tracking, as well as ART and Optitrack via API.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 13, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. As an optical motion tracking platform , the Leap Motion Controller is fundamentally different from handheld controllers in many ways.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. With APIs for six programming languages and dozens of platform integrations, the Leap Motion SDK has everything you need to get started. Get started with Unity.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 6, 2016

All you need to enter is a VR headset, Leap Motion Controller, and AltspaceVR user account. For the final round, we’re excited to announce our judges: David Holz , CTO of Leap Motion. Timoni West , Principal Designer at Unity Labs. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. How are the contestants judged?

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. My first major project was Battleship VR , which was intended to investigate UI interaction with finger tracking. What do VR and hand tracking each add to the experience of seeing and disassembling a thing in mid-air?

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. Note that some assets (like Image Hands and Widgets) are not currently available for the Orion Unity Core Assets. User Interface Design. Ergonomics.

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