The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While many other AR glasses (like Nreal Light or HoloLens 2 ) have a Field Of View in the 50° ballpark, RealMax glasses have always had ones above 100° , for a more immersive augmented experience. And after you try it, you can’t go back, because it is SO MUCH immersive, augmented reality really becomes your reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2022

As XR technologies become more accessible for companies and consumers alike, the demand for immersive hand and eye tracking solutions is growing. With tracking technologies, companies can build more immersive experiences for XR users. With the Vive Pro Eye, users can tap into new levels of immersion, with ultra-precise eye monitoring.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. Since VRidge and our Unity Core Assets both take advantage of OpenVR, it’s possible for you to build and test your project using this minimal setup. This limits immersion, but mobile VR headset users will already be familiar with this.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Mozilla’s recent experiments combining VR and the web pave a path towards virtual presence – pushing beyond disconnected feelings of immersion and bringing us into new places with a life of their own. 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

JULY 21, 2015

Early last month, Leap Motion kicked off our internal hackathon with a round of pitch sessions. At Leap Motion, we spend a lot of time experimenting with new ways of interacting with technology, and we often run into the same problem. Leap Motion. Our team of five ran with this concept to create AR Screen.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

It’s been a busy month on the Leap Motion Twitch TV channel! Topics range from creating slick menu systems, to the art of robust interaction design, to the intricacies of “immersion,” and beyond. Update: Check out our 4-minute bite size video on how to create a Unity VR app! Getting Started with Unity.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Sound is essential for truly immersive VR. For this reason, sound is more than just an immersive tool – how (and where) objects around you sound has an enormous effect on your understanding of where they are, especially when you’re not looking at them. The Unity game engine tries to reinforce this real-world falloff.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

I spoke with VR Bound co-founder, Daniel Colaianni about what he hopes the VR Awards would achieve for VR technology and he says, “The VR Awards exists to promote growth and achievement throughout the immersive industry by reinvesting in promoting strategic partnerships.” Leap Motion – Leap Motion.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

As the XR landscape continues to grow, accelerating towards an expected value of $300 billion by 2024, immersive technology is evolving at an amazing rate. Increasingly, vendors and innovators are searching for new and improved ways to immerse users in unique experiences, using powerful and disruptive technology.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. It will feature a selection of immersive artworks that will be hosted at an in-person “Games & Immersive Experience” area at the festival hub. Are you ready?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

Presenz also offers a Unity plugin so that you can import this render file in Unity and so mix the resulting volumetric video with some real-time interactions that you add in the game engine. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object. The finger tracking can be improved and it is worse than the one of Leap Motion, also because every finger has not all its DOF tracked. Structure of the Unity SDK (Image by Senseglove). Applications.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Models Varjo says while rival headsets are catering to “2D productivity use cases”, its 4 th generation series will create deeply immersive experiences for industrial customers in search of exceptional visual fidelity and performance. Users can access over 100 third-party applications and engines, including Unreal Engine and Unity.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2015

First, the Leap Motion Controller can provide intuitive hand interactions, but not necessarily intuitive player movement controls. Second, the 3D environment motion flows in immersive VR often cause “simulator sickness” and negative game experience. The Leap Motion assets for Unity are quite convenient and easy to use.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 23, 2016

With this wealth of talent and ideas flooding the field, even more immersive and cinematic experiences are starting to be released. Using the Leap Motion Controller and Oculus Rift, you’ll be able to throw spells with varying force and speed to battle the unknown evils ahead. What’s been your favorite new experience of 2016?

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

In this post, we take a look at 4 ways that sound, VR, and motion controls can be a powerful combination. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space, which is absolutely essential to creating a sense of presence. Here are just a few: Unity documentation. Extra Reading.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This week, motion designer Mike Alger released an 18-minute video that digs into the cutting edge of VR interface design using the Leap Motion Controller and Oculus Rift. Alongside this will be the immersive storytelling, compelling experiences, and discussions of human bodily transcendence by way of technological augmentation.

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Leapmotion

MAY 15, 2015

At a recent Designers + Geeks talk , Jody Medich and Daniel Plemmons talked about some of the discoveries our team has made (and the VR best practices we’ve developed) while building VR experiences with the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller. Our UI Widget for Unity had some interesting challenges along the way.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Developers can develop AR experiences with Zappar using the tool they like the most : Unity, native Javascript, A-frame, C++. We all work towards making XR experiences that are always more immersive and advanced, but few of us work towards improving the ethical aspect of what we are going to build. Unity launches MARS tools.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

With Paper Plane , we studied the basic features of Leap Motion using fairly simple mechanics. What was it like incorporating Leap Motion into your Unity workflow? Unity provides a very natural way for the implementation of VR in your project. How did each idea come about? VRARlab is on Twitter @VRARlab.

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Leapmotion

MAY 2, 2015

A few weeks back, a first-person immersive animation experiment hit reddit. 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.”. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Then, you can create MR applications, and so code in Unity and at the same time see the preview of your 3D game in 3D in front of you. Mix it with the fact that Chrome and Firefox are now implementing WebXR standard, and you can see the potential of A-Frame for the future of the immersive web. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

We also have some new interactions that are native to immersive media: the sphere handle and the hand effector itself. This is the core of our mission at Leap Motion. The post Designing Cat Explorer appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. In fact, it doesn’t feel like you’re using a computer at all.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Charles ( @cwan2011 ) is a software developer experienced in both iOS and Unity game development. What’s more, the unique boxy art style gets you immersed as if you are part of your childhood LEGO world!” Flip Out lets you send tables and objects flying with no consequences, venting your daily stress in a virtual office environment.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. The big tech players will entice developers with tools like RealityKit (Apple), Maquette (Microsoft), Spark AR Studio (Facebook), Spatial Workstation for immersive audio (Facebook via acquisition of Two Big Ears), Lens Studio (Snap), Tiltbrush (Google).

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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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Leapmotion

JANUARY 19, 2016

Betatron is a 3D immersive puzzle game played by moving beta particles through the environment. TOUCH with WebGL & Leap Motion. The post 6 Hidden Gems from our Dev Gallery appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. This week, we wanted to showcase some community projects that you may not have seen yet.

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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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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Note that some assets (like Image Hands and Widgets) are not currently available for the Orion Unity Core Assets. In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner. Sound is an essential aspect of truly immersive VR. Ergonomics.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

With input from a Leap Motion Controller, Hovercast radiates from the palm of your hand – becoming a powerful, versatile extension of your virtual self. The demo requires a Leap Motion Controller and (optionally) an Oculus Rift headset. The sense of immersion is never broken. DOWNLOAD THE DEMO ».

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Leapmotion

JULY 3, 2015

Hover VR interfaces use the Leap Motion Controller, providing hand-based interactions and strong sense of immersion in the virtual space. The post Firework Factory VR: Touch the Show this Fourth of July appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. How does it feel to be surrounded by fireworks? To use the menu interface?

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Human beings are being filmed and rendered in engines like Unity with full 3D clarity. Otherwise it runs the risk of feeling like a series of cutscenes, or an immersion-breaking vote for what Calculon should do next: So what’s the next step? appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Since the OSVR launch in January this year, nearly 250 organizations including Intel, NVIDIA, Xilinx, Ubisoft, Leap Motion, and many others have joined the OSVR ecosystem. Concurrent with the expansion of the OSVR community, the capabilities of the software platform have grown by leaps and bounds.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. I think environmental interactions in VR help immerse the user more than traditional UIs and HUDs (unless there’s a contextual reason, like if you’re wearing a futuristic helmet). What inspired that? Follow Martin on Twitter @mrschubert. .

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