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. Defend Against Zombies, Learn How to Code.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus Quest hands tracking video review. If you like Youtube videos, I made a very nice one showcasing hands-tracking in action, with my soothing voice commenting it. I advise you to watch it, especially for the third part of the video. How does hands tracking work? Leap Motion still has the lead in this.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 31, 2019

How to enhance a car? How to sell a new model of refrigerator? Same goes for gesture control, it is basically used for video game industry only. Project North Star; Source: Leap Motion. Let’s connect it to Wi-Fi and stuff its door with the Facebook app. Gestural interface; Source: Shutterstock.com.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

This is how to set it up. The new Insta360 Evo camera, that is able to shoot 360 monoscopic videos or 180 3D videos, will be able to stream live content directly to the Vive Focus. Vive 6DOF videos. The Vive Video platform will start offering a “6DOF Lite” mode for videos.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. As Alex of Leap Motion explained me, using carefully studied sounds and visual feedback when the user touches a virtual object, it is possible to create a sense of fake touch, that can make the experience more realistic.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

The studio behind it also released a new gameplay video Samba De Amigo: This musical arcade game is not my genre at all, but it marks the entrance of SEGA into the VR market, and this is quite exciting. In the video, you see a family that is manipulated by the AI to sell them more drinks and food at the restaurant. This is impressive.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

Facebook has lifted the embargo on Horizon and so we have started seeing the first reviews and videos about it. But at the same time, some people that have tried it are enjoying their time there , and everyone praises the creation tools that let you create nice interactive worlds with ease and without knowing how to code.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

It’s been a busy month on the Leap Motion Twitch TV channel! Update: Check out our 4-minute bite size video on how to create a Unity VR app! In our first video, Daniel and Wilbur kicked off with a 20 minute guide on getting started for both desktop and VR: Getting Started with VR. Getting Started with Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D. This video from Holonautic sheds light on what’s possible. Watch Introductory Video and Confirm Your Unity ID. Table of Contents.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

These can easily be covered by watching some Youtube videos on it and a little bit of experimenting. Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. Originally I was going to make a standalone device which hooked everything up to a Nvidia Jetson Nano that could be worn on your belt (think Magic Leap One).

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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. Presenz is a company developing a solution to create 6DOF Videos. That is, using its software, you can create a 360 3D video where the user can move the head. I like this modding.

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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? If you speak Italian, watch the video and then subscribe to Gianluigi’s channel!

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Leapmotion

MARCH 2, 2016

Delete the current Leap Motion assets from your project. LeapImageRetriever: Responsible for uploading the controller’s video passthrough and other relevant image information to the graphics card. Also responsible for doing the conversion from the Leap Motion coordinate space to the Unity coordinate space.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

And strangely, Upload VR has published this week an old video of Abrash showcasing an experiment to create in VR an environment that has the same shape of the real environment (including the real props) the user is in. And after having seen the new video announcing the beta, I am even more convinced of it. Very interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2020

Let me show you how they work! It wouldn’t be a Skarredghost’s review without an unboxing video! When I downloaded the software package related to Etee, I found a practical guide on how to use the devices. Etee video review. If you like videos, here you are: Otherwise, keep reading for the textual explanation.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It was quite the demo (see the video below). Ultrahaptics went on to raise $23 million, begin to interest car companies , and later absorb the much-hyped Leap Motion, which, it turns out, was a match made in heaven, by uniting both hand tracking and mid-air haptics. Like, who wants to touch anything anymore, right?!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

In June 2017, Valve showcased some photos and videos of these controllers, but after that moment, we had very few info about them. It is still not perfect ( Leap Motion is still more accurate), but surely it is a step forward from the Oculus Touch. Until today. Valve Knuckles v1.3, Oculus Touch Controllers. Knuckles EV2.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 31, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’ve seen our fair share of impressive motion-controlled robots that will one day bring about the robocalypse. On another level, a high school student’s robotics project is combining the Oculus Rift and motion control to create an experience that takes you wherever the robot goes. Happy Halloween!

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. GET THE PLUGIN.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove video review. This post contains a very detailed review of the SenseGlove force-feedback gloves, but if you don’t like walls of texts and prefer a more agile video review, then I got you covered! Have fun watching this review video. What is SenseGlove? This should be fixed in future iterations of the device.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It seems cool, but I would like to try it to believe in it: all the times that someone promised me some kind of sensory magic, it never turned out so good as they told me (like with the phantom touch sensation that Leap Motion told me about ). Volu lets you take volumetric videos with your smartphone. The mystery continues….

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The software is very famous , and some videos about artists drawing with it have become so viral that even mainstream people have seen them. More info (Sundance Film Festival in WebXR) More info (The best of Sundance) More info (How to access Sundance Festival) More info (No Proscenium’s diaries about Sundance, with many reviews).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Another big kudos comes from the fact that Snap is clearly showing all the limitations of the device in its communication : in all photos and videos, you can spot the limited FOV of the device, something that instead all the other AR companies try to hide. Watch a throuh-the-lens video of Tilt Five glasses. Kudos to Snap for it.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I’m Bastien Bourineau, project manager and lead developer at OpenSpace3D, and I’m back to introduce the new OpenSpace3D release with improved Leap Motion support – including how we got around the perennial indexing issue. You can see the demo in action in the video. Hello again!

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The Oculus Touch provides a great way of interacting with digital worlds on Oculus Quest but the company also knows that they can be a barrier, as people still need to learn how to use them. Which means devs will be able to start creating apps which support hand tracking to create a more natural gameplay experience.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

I still can’t believe this… some years ago I even thought 10K was an impossible target for me… in the end, I’m just a guy writing technical walls of text, publishing badly edited Youtube videos, and making jokes about porn in VR… but here I am with 20,000 written next to the count of my followers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The only question is how we can make the future more human as we take our first steps into places beyond reality. Last week at Vision Summit , Leap Motion CTO David Holz talked about the rapidly emerging future of VR technologies and what it means for human experience. Our engineers at the office were pretty stoked about this.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

In order for students to think about how to create pieces of music and pieces of software, we enable groups to get together and make music as an ensemble. There’s a lot to learn – you have to learn how to compose, orchestrate music for an ensemble, interaction design, etc.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Facebook has deep expertise on AR and VR (I think we all know it), while Luxottica, that is the worldwide leader in glasses manufacturing (it is the brand behind Rayban, for instance), for sure knows how to create glasses that consumers want to wear. HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 14, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. How did you conceive of this concept? What are the strengths of the Leap Motion Controller? Can you speak a bit about your experience combining Unity, Oculus, and Leap Motion? Right hand holding the gory keys to the future.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

If you can’t perform streaming, plan B is having a gameplay video; Teaser trailer video of HitMotion: Reloaded that we took to Nanchang. There was no way of showing the streaming of our game, so we just showed a gameplay video on a laptop. Just keep calm and think. In our case, we had to solve many problems.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

VR-2 Pro adds an integrated Leap Motion and a 10m cable. Display expert Karl Guttag has written a very interesting speculation on it based on his own big experience on optical systems and what it is possible to see from the video trailer of the experience. More info (Article on Road To VR) More info (Article on Upload VR).

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2015

At expos like VRLA, I got to see what a powerful pairing the Leap Motion Controller and Oculus are and believe there is still so much left to explore!”. We started developing the game as seniors of Interactive Arts at MICA with the goal to simply create something fun and immersive using the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion.”. “In

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

1” is not the new name of a son of Elon Musk, but it is the (questionable) name of a new opensource AR headset by Combine Reality, based on Leap Motion’s North Star reference design. Doing hands tracking well is also very difficult , and if even Facebook is having trouble doing that, I wonder how a little startup can do it better.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The hands tracking is already available inside the Oculus SDK and Oculus has also released a demo that helps people in understanding how to use it. More info (TESTED video on Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Summary of most important points of the video by Upload). new gameplay video) More info (The Walking Dead: Saint and Sinners?—?preorders

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

My recent interest in virtual reality and Leap Motion input led to several interesting project ideas. A nice-looking demo with interesting features gives you an easy way to create sharable videos of your work. Developing with Leap Motion Tracking. Invest extra time in your demo. Don’t have an Oculus Rift headset?

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