Road to VR

MAY 10, 2018

However, the team at Leap Motion has also investigated more exotic and exciting interface paradigms from arm HUDs and digital wearables, to deployable widgets containing buttons, sliders, and even 3D trackballs and color pickers. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion.

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ARPost

APRIL 4, 2023

AR and VR Content Creation With Integrated Ultraleap Hand Tracking Ultraleap was founded in 2019 when Leap Motion was acquired by Ultrahaptics , and the two companies were rebranded under the new name. They don’t need to know how to code to create VR apps and tools, including training programs.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2018

But there are times when virtual objects will be farther away than arm’s reach, beyond the user’s range of direct manipulation. As part of its interactive design sprints, Leap Motion , creators of the hand-tracking peripheral of the same name, prototyped three ways of effectively interacting with distant objects in VR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2018

Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Martin is Lead Virtual Reality Designer and Evangelist for Leap Motion. He has created multiple experiences such as Weightless, Geometric, and Mirrors, and is currently exploring how to make the virtual feel more tangible.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

We all love virtual reality, but sometimes it gives us big headaches. And not because of the motion sickness , but because something doesn’t work. The system will guide you in updating the firmware if any new firmware is available; How to update the firmware on your HTC Vive devices. Leap Motion driver and runtime.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

It was once thought that controller-less glove & finger tracking technology would be the ideal input for virtual reality, but over the last few years the benefits of having a physical, tracked controller for VR input have become quite apparent. Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

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). I just want to be a project maintainer or shepherd that guides people in how to build Triton’s.

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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2018

Today we’re excited to share the second half of our design exploration along with a downloadable demo on the Leap Motion Gallery. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Martin is Lead Virtual Reality Designer and Evangelist for Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2020

When I downloaded the software package related to Etee, I found a practical guide on how to use the devices. The controllers as-is are 3DOF ones , and so they aren’t very useful for virtual reality. Use with virtual reality. Use without VR. Standard 3DOF controllers (Image by TG0).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. 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. Table of Contents.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

Beat Saber and Gorilla Tag) came from small and unknown indie studios , you realize how important it is to let everyone in the community experiment with new paradigms. How to preserve privacy then? If you use a Leap Motion controller, you should be able to grab the feed of its cameras according to its docs.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 31, 2019

How to enhance a car? How to sell a new model of refrigerator? Yes, there is Microsoft Hololens that allows its users to click and open the menu using a hand, but far more expected is the integration of one of the Leap Motion or ManoMotion (or any other) solutions with the mass-produced products.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Once you activate it, your controllers disappear, and Oculus provides you a handy tutorial that teaches you how to use it. In my opinion, the tracking is in line, if not slightly better, with the one of Leap Motion. Leap Motion still has the lead in this.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Theoretically, the SenseGlove can be used outside VR, but practically speaking it is inside the virtual reality that it shines , because it is able to give more realism to your VR experiences by offering more realistic touch sensations. SenseGlove is an exoskeleton for your hands that is able to provide you haptics sensations.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

This is how to set it up. 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.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Virtual reality is an exciting medium, but for first time users it can take a few minutes to master its limitations. As VR experiences grow in size and complexity, these new realities will need richer soundscapes than ever before. Tagged with: leap motion Facebook Twitter Reddit More. Setting Boundaries.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 31, 2016

Bringing hands into virtual reality just got a major upgrade. Now officially integrated in Unreal Engine 4.11 , getnamo’s independent plugin for Leap Motion makes it faster and easier than ever to integrate Leap Motion Orion into your VR projects! Visit developer.leapmotion.com/unreal to get started.

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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 ). The mystery of Virtual Reality support on Xbox continues with a new chapter of the saga.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Click To Tweet When you reach out and grab a virtual object or surface, there’s nothing stopping your physical hand in the real world. To make physical interactions in VR feel compelling and natural, we have to play with some fundamental assumptions about how digital objects should behave. A Chinese version is also available.

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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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Leapmotion

MAY 17, 2015

In the process of building applications and various UX experiments at Leap Motion, we’ve come up with a useful set of heuristics to help us critically evaluate our gesture and interaction designs. The team at Leap Motion is constantly working to improve the accuracy and consistency of our tracking technology. Ergonomics.

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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. Defend Against Zombies, Learn How to Code.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Like every open source project, several of its scripts are interdependent and they require some time to fully understand how to combine them. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3. Augmented reality (AR) is the future of Restaurant Menu?

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

From gaming to big data, virtual reality gives us the chance to build and explore whole new worlds beyond the screen. Maintain a comfortable distance between the viewer and layered virtual objects. Think about how to make 3D data accessible. The rigged hand is available for Unity from our V2 Skeletal Assets.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

It is still not perfect ( Leap Motion is still more accurate), but surely it is a step forward from the Oculus Touch. SteamVR Skeletal input will abstract the actual controller used by the player (Oculus Touch, Knuckles, Leap Motion, etc…), giving the developer the best pose of the hand detectable with the actually used sensor.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. Click To Tweet Leap Motion goes mobile. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. Unity Core Assets 101: How to start building your VR project.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

After many months of teasing them, Unity has finally launched the MARS tools, a suite of tools to build easily Augmented Reality experiences in Unity without knowing how to code. This is another great publicity for virtual reality, whose awareness is spreading always more outside the tech scene. Cool, isn’t it?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

But you are right that it was an accelerated learning experience on how to best create and market a bundle. Playing around with the Leap Motion interaction system. What errors have you made and what lessons have you learned? All in all, we didn’t have a lot of expectations launching it so it worked as well as it could.

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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. In a sense, they are.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 12, 2019

The Dexmo force-feedback glove is an exoskeleton that you wear to have true fingers presence in any virtual environment. It can be used both with a standard screen or an AR/VR headset, but I think that virtual reality is where this device really shines. I could really feel my hands as going through an elecro-magnetical field!

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Leapmotion

JUNE 6, 2018

At Leap Motion, we envision a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. At the heart of this experience is hand tracking, which unlocks interactions uniquely suited to virtual and augmented reality. Let’s build it together.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

These are the things that I took to my booth: Virtual Reality headsets ( Vive Focus Plus , in my case). So, we scrapped away the tutorial and no one has ever played it; Adapt your game to how people expect to play it. A fun fact is that Chinese visitors of our booth didn’t know how to punch stuff.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2019

It reminded me a bit the MetaMovie project that I described here on this blog, but instead of happening all in virtual reality in High Fidelity, it is organized in an installation in real reality. After that, we all hugged virtually and physically, the monkey disappeared and then the experience ended. He got almost eaten.

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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. VR Sculpture Layout and Control.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Learn how to optimize your #VR project for the next generation of mobile VR experiences. Click To Tweet The Leap Motion Interaction Engine lets developers give their virtual objects the ability to be picked up, thrown, nudged, swatted, smooshed, or poked. Rapid Prototyping and Development at Leap Motion.

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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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