VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Inside, the show combined haptics (swivel chairs and synced Subpac vests) with a Gear VR to virtually transport you on a journey down storm drains to come face-to-face with the infamous evil clown Pennywise. San Francisco-based Leap Motion has raised a $50M Series C for their hand- and finger-tracking technology.

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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. With our Interaction Engine Unity package, prototyping these kinds of physically inspired interfaces is easier than ever. Each stage is at your fingertips w/ #LeapMotion #Unity.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

The company offers a range of modules, including the Stratos Inspire, and Leap Motion controller. The organisation is also investing in haptics, to help users feel more within the XR interactions. Unity and Magic Leap. It will be interesting to see what Valve delivers next.

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Leapmotion

JULY 10, 2015

Leap Motion is a great tool for this.”. The project was primarily built in Unity, utilizing our widgets to cue interaction design. In the beginning, I wanted to develop a haptic glove that I could use with Leap Motion in a virtual reality scenario, allowing me to feel the stuff I touched.”

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Road to VR

AUGUST 8, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. We see headsets, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs, and body suits. Many game engines—such as Unity, Unreal, and SteamVR—immediately support it. He frequently shares his views and knowledge on his blog.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

These considerations define a lot of the design in Cat Explorer , starting from the visual aesthetic – from interactive controls that look lightweight enough that it’s easier to accept the absence of haptic response – to animations and behavior, so that most things try to be context-aware when it adds to the user experience.

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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? This utility is used in each of our example Widgets.

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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

JULY 28, 2015

The demo puts you in control using a combination of Leap Motion interaction and a fully integrated Hands On Throttle and Stick (HOTAS) control system. Leap Motion + HOTAS Gamepad. As part of our VR set design, the team rapidly designed different geometric models in Maya and exported them to Unity (shown below).

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” 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. ” Requires: Windows. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

My recent interest in virtual reality and Leap Motion input led to several interesting project ideas. Your hand may obscure the target, and the lack of haptic feedback can make it difficult to gauge your progress. Developing with Leap Motion Tracking. Hover Actions. Don’t have an Oculus Rift headset?

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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. Aside from this, my major work with Leap Motion is my game Robot Chess , a relatively simple game which allows you to use your hands to pick up and move around chess pieces as you play against a robotic AI opponent.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 27, 2016

Interacting with Leap Motion. I chose to work with optical hand tracking using the Leap Motion Controller in order to perform gestures that were natural to our culture. The Leap Motion Controller worked well and everyone reacted naturally with the gestures. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

Then the management of the camera will happen through the functionalities exposed by Camera2 in Android and WebCamTexture in Unity, which are the ones developers have always used with smartphones. Access to cameras will require the application to ask permission from the user (that so is in control). The company has also laid off 30 employees.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. Also, since we don’t have haptics yet, giving the user visual and audio feedback when they interact with something really helps. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. We see goggles, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs and body suits. Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. It turns out that others share this vision.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

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.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. And then Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion coming together, creating that virtual hand tracking meets virtual manipulation of the air: ultrasonics. Alan: And it’s interesting that you say that, because I actually did the Sixth Sense demo a couple years ago, of the catheter thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. And then Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion coming together, creating that virtual hand tracking meets virtual manipulation of the air: ultrasonics. Alan: And it’s interesting that you say that, because I actually did the Sixth Sense demo a couple years ago, of the catheter thing.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

He has demonstrated even more original (and less scary) ideas for AR interaction while directing UX design at Leap Motion. Is the Founder-Ceo of #HoloSuit a full body motion tracking suit with haptic feedback. Designer, Director and Researcher, #Keiichi is best known for his dystopian video “ Hyper-reality.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I've tried some haptics gloves. And then Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion coming together, creating that virtual hand tracking meets virtual manipulation of the air: ultrasonics. Alan: And it's interesting that you say that, because I actually did the Sixth Sense demo a couple years ago, of the catheter thing. Alan: "HaptX."H-A-P-T-X,

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Ultraleap) Ultraleap launches Leap Motion Controller 2 Hand-tracking company Ultraleap has just announced the Leap Motion Controller 2 , the evolution of the iconic Leap Motion Controller, which is smaller and more precise than its predecessor.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. And then Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion coming together, creating that virtual hand tracking meets virtual manipulation of the air: ultrasonics. Alan: And it’s interesting that you say that, because I actually did the Sixth Sense demo a couple years ago, of the catheter thing.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking. The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Touch controllers are still necessary to have an optimal VR experience because they let you feel something in your hands, they give you haptic feedback, they make you press buttons and such. Later this year, we’ll expand our Vulkan support on Quest to include Unity and Vulkan validation layers for easier debugging. Developer tools.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The front features a glossy plastic lid , that can be removed to uncover the so-called “frunk”, a hole with a USB-3 port , that can be used to attach accessories like Leap Motion to the Index. So, I put my Valve Index, opened BigScreen and developed in Unity in VR for 4 hours. I expected much better haptics feedback.

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