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Apart from the splendid Cathedral and the tasty Trdelnik, Prague also features an interesting VirtualReality startup: VRgineers. Having a tour inside VRgineers, that is a startup that is trying to develop almost all the main parts of its headset , made me understand how creating a VirtualReality headset is incredibly difficult.
One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the LeapMotion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. LeapMotion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog. If you want, you can find it here below!
You can finally buy the LeapMotion v2 accessory. The time for us XR developers to buy a LeapMotion 2 has finally come. LeapMotion 1 has been used by almost every developer and researcher , both in VR and not. Yes, the price is higher than the cheap LeapMotion 1, but this is also a far better device.
Today it’s a great day for virtualreality: 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 VirtualReality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts.
In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional LeapMotion v1 controller + LeapMotion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for LeapMotion. Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for LeapMotion.
After having detailed his vision for a better future where we all will wear an XR headset, Alvin has started introducing HTC’s vision for the Vive Focus Plus. As you can see from the price, it has been positioned in the West as an enterprise headset as all the devices by HTC. This is how to set it up.
Sensic, a long-time player in virtualreality and co-founder of OSVR , finally released their VR headset destined to make its way to public venues such as theme parks and arcades. Front IR window for optional embedded LeapMotion controller. pre-production model, image courtesy Sensics. image courtesy Sensics.
It currently supports the following devices and XR systems: SteamVR: HTC Vive and Windows MR headsets. LeapMotion. The VIRTUOSO SDK for XR development is available as a full open-source release for the Unity game engine on Github. Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest. Sense Glove. bHaptics TactSuit.
What if you want to experiment with AI and MR and you don’t want to wait for Meta/Pico/HTC to provide access to the camera feed? If you use a LeapMotion controller, you should be able to grab the feed of its cameras according to its docs.
Robust to handling objects: Hyperion offers superior hand tracking while holding an object in your hand, making it perfect for mixed reality. Object tracking : Hyperion allows the LeapMotion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object.
Open to the public now for the low, low price of $0, the T-Roc VirtualReality Experience was designed with an accessible user interface in mind in order to remain as self-explanatory as technologically possible.
Launched back in 2012, LeapMotion first introduced us to their new way of interacting with computers in three dimensions. At the time, the LeapMotion sensor sat on your desk or was built into your keyboard, allowing for natural hand and finger movement tracking. There was one thing — the device never really caught on.
Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtualreality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. Something to note, all nominees had to be centered on a virtualreality experience, and not an augmented reality experience.
Because if Apple is just going to repeat the same use cases of the HTC Vive and Meta Quest 2, but selling it at $3000, it is just going to fail spectacularly. That’s why the headset should be available by the end of the year, and my bet is that Apple is trying to have it ready before the holidays. But the big question is the “how”.
The headsets are something we have never seen before and one of them clearly features a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) with the Valve logo on and from that moment on, the hype regarding an upcoming Valve virtualreality HMD has risen. The photos. Valve may decide to continue such partnership or also breaking them.
Theoretically, the SenseGlove can be used outside VR, but practically speaking it is inside the virtualreality that it shines , because it is able to give more realism to your VR experiences by offering more realistic touch sensations. This way your gloves are powered and can communicate with your PC; Setup of the HTC Vive system.
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 LeapMotion told me about ). The mystery of VirtualReality support on Xbox continues with a new chapter of the saga.
Intel demonstrates “Merged Reality” wireless VR headset, Project Alloy. Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtualreality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. This provides LeapMotion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking.
Intel demonstrates “Merged Reality” wireless VR headset, Project Alloy. Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtualreality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. This provides LeapMotion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking.
AltspaceVR is a virtual social space where you can strap on your Vive and meet people from around the world. LeapMotion adds a whole new level of expression to your virtual avatar – so you can point, wave, or dance. Have a question about LeapMotion + HTC Vive? Does it work with the Vive Controllers?
From my tests, the image on the screen appears slightly distorted, so there will be something to fix on HTC’s side. Better integration with HTC phones. Yesterday HTC has also unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC U12+. The Vive Focus and its friend the HTC U12+ phone (Image by HTC). Image by HTC).
But LeapMotion has a universal mounting kit for their motion sensor that lets you control nearly any virtualreality headset with gestures. Don't Miss: What's the Difference Between Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality? If you're using an HTC Vive or holding.
The acronym for Augmented World Expo (AWE) welcomes a wonderful play on words, recognizing the incredible minds behind augmented and virtualreality as the tech superheroes they are and having attendees to stare in “AWE” at their work.
We all love virtualreality, but sometimes it gives us big headaches. And not because of the motion sickness , but because something doesn’t work. Otherwise, contact HTC support to have your Vive fixed (good luck with that). LeapMotion driver and runtime. Header image by HTC). ASUS AI Suite 3.
I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about VirtualReality 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!). LeapMotion) on the same headset. Hands-on Droolon F1. I liked it a lot.
AltSpaceVR is the first cross-platform social VR application that supports both the Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. We also talk about some of the social dynamics that occur when they mix together the full range of interaction fidelity between hand-tracked Vive, LeapMotion hands in the Rift, and just the head rotation of the Gear VR.
The epic Noah Zerkin (the guy making the LeapMotion North Star headsets) at our booth to try the game! The total contracted investment project amount is 65.256 billion yuan ($9B+) “ Wow, that’s an amazing amount of investments for virtualreality! You may ask me how the event is big.
Intel Teases Depth-Sensing HTC Vive For Developer Conference An Intel engineer tweeted a tease suggesting VR is going to be a major theme at the company’s developer conference in a couple weeks. The tease is a photo of a unicorn-shaped modification to the HTC Vive that uses a series of cameras to sense the depth of surrounding objects.
Bandai Namco’s ‘ Project i Can ‘ has made the Anywhere Door a (virtual) reality using the HTC Vive, LeapMotion, and a few simple props tracked with attached Vive controllers. A VR take on this idea uses simple props to make a unique VR experience.
HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre. HTC, one of the most important companies in the VR landscape, has now a new boss: Yves Maitre. It has bought the hand-tracking company LeapMotion various months ago for $30M since the two hardware are a perfect fit the one for the other.
HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). First of all, Peter Chou, ex founder of HTC , has launched his startup XrSpace, with his first VR headset Mova (that you can see in the header image of this post), together with its social XR platform Manova.
Yesterday was an amazing day for virtualreality , with the launch of probably the best standalone VR headset for consumers , the reveal of probably the best headset for developers, the announcement of new possibilities for enterprise customers, and… also yeah, there was something about the Rift S, but no one cares about it!
For sure this is a piece of good news, since it signals that the most important company working on creative tools is seeing the value of a virtualreality modeling tool and will probably offer it inside its popular Adobe suite. HTC won’t announce anything big at CES. The status of location-based virtualreality.
One of the biggest drawbacks of HTC Vive headsets with regard to Oculus Rift are the controllers: while Oculus Touch is ergonomic and can emulate the hands quite well, Vive has controllers that are quite big and are usable only as wands. Areas where the force sensors are installed (Image by Valve). Oculus Touch Controllers. Knuckles EV2.
At E3 2016 I got to see the latest prototype version of Gloveone, a haptic motion input glove designed for virtualreality. But that first version of the glove required a third-party tracking system like LeapMotion in order to translate the movement of the user’s hands into virtualreality.
Fallout 4 (2015), Bethesda’s beloved post-apocalyptic open world RPG, is now in VR, letting you stalk the Wasteland as the sole survivor of Vault 111 from the immersive point of view of the HTC Vive headset. Available On: HTC Vive ( Steam ). Reviewed On: HTC Vive, Tested on Rift (see note below).
In all of this, someone has created the design for a LeapMotion mount for the Index that exploits the frunk. HTC has released some interesting statistics on the VR market. Every year, HTC conducts a big survey on the Chinese VR market and shares the results with the community.
It now supports Oculus Quest, HTC Vive and UltraLeap (former LeapMotion) systems of skeletal hand tracking for interactions based on realistic, and customizable, hand poses. The Interaction Builder is built specifically for hands interaction, which makes the integration of hand tracking far easier.
Virtualreality was born in universities and survived through multiple waves of innovation, failure, and rebirth. 71% of universities own augmented reality headsets. 71% of universities own augmented reality headsets. There are roughly as many Rift DK1 and DK2 units combined floating around as HTC Vives.
Most high-end virtualreality 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.
If you see the program of the conferences or workshops , you may see that there are very interesting people there, like some guys from Epic Games, other people by HTC Vive, Keiichi Matsuda from LeapMotion , Alex Coulombe and also the epic Enea Le Fons from #30DaysInVR. Have a nice VR day!
VR-2 Pro adds an integrated LeapMotion and a 10m cable. This week, HTC has confirmed Road To VR that the Cosmos doesn’t transmit any data of the positional tracking outside your PC and the data is also encrypted to prevent hackers to access them. More info (Article on Road To VR) More info (Article on Upload VR).
63 for the LeapMotion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. This transforms your phone into a VR headset screen, simulating devices like the HTC Vive. The experience within the headset will be at least a couple of frames behind what you would experience on the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.
Blocks – LeapMotion. SEE ALSO 'Grav|Lab' Lets you Build Incredible Machines with Oculus Touch and HTC Vive. My real virtual body: Body Swapping in virtualreality – Alice Chirico. The Martian VR Experience – Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Innovation Lab, RSA Films, The VirtualReality Company.
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