Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly integrated into future mobile VR headsets.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Leap Motion is a young technology company that is perhaps best known at this point for what it sells at your local Best Buy. virtual reality peripheral that can be mounted onto an Oculus Rift headset. The system communicates that information as input in a VR experience. It’s a $79.99 It will not be sold in stores.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

PS Before starting, would you mind joining my Patreon so that to support my hard work in informing the XR communities with detailed reviews like this one?]. This means that at the moment you can not use NextMind with the Oculus Quest standalone (you can use it with Quest + Link, of course). But does its device live up to the hype?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

This is good to give some tactile information, making you feel the texture of objects. SenseGlove is currently producing its DK1 device , that can be used both with Vive systems (in this case, a Vive Tracker is attached to the gloves to provide the positional tracking) or Oculus systems (in this case, the Oculus Touch controllers are used).

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

One part of the characteristics of VRTK is its management of the project/scene for specific platforms (Oculus, Vive, etc.). Creating remote MR productions Hand Tracking Thanks to the release of the Oculus Quest, one of the most popular UI in XR today is the hand tracking input. See here for more information!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Some weeks ago, I’ve reported of rumors about Magic Leap being in big trouble and having assigned all its patents as collateral to bank JP Morgan, probably because it is looking for a loan or to raise a round E. Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium. Well, here you are!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

Demonstrating VR Touch haptics at SVVR 2017 this week, Go Touch VR showed the device in action using an Oculus Rift with attached Leap Motion for hand tracking. And while rumble is widely applicable for that abstract approach, it seems best suited for shooting games if you want to make use of the more immersive direct approach.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Multi-user B2B software for creating and playing 360° VR presentations, the app is optimized for Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Cardboard. Just released to the Oculus Store , Mefisto may add smartwatch support to the game, “so the user can see his O2 levels and the Geiger Counter needle by looking at his wrist… If the game does well.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

What virtual avatars, creatures, information layers or interactive components are here. They could be layers of information, such as instructions, directions, tourist information, information about objects in the location, or game characters, artworks or virtual scenes.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 25, 2014

of Airspace Home and the Leap Motion software. The Leap Motion Software and Airspace Home v1.2 From calls and radio control to travel information, his demos show what might be possible with HUD windshields. Join Leap Motion experience engineer Daniel Plemmons as he explores the changing face of UX design.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The Earth Elevator makes several stops along the way to provide you with information and time to look around. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Designed by a team of students at Game-U ( @gameu_nj ), Nerves is an intense visit to the operating room for a motion-control surgeon. Requires: Mac, Oculus Rift. IoT Projects.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 1, 2015

The experience used an Oculus DK1 (vintage!) Last January, Leap Motion Experience Engineer Isaac Cohen delivered a lively code sermon for an audience of over 500 HTML5 enthusiasts about how to create rich 3D universes for your browser – your “happy place” – in WebGL. “What part of ‘Invincible Iron Man’ didn’t you understand?”

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

My recent interest in virtual reality and Leap Motion input led to several interesting project ideas. Here are some informal guidelines of my own, which shaped the Hovercast project from the very beginning: Simple Inputs. Where possible, use simple hand motions and reliable gestures. Developing with Leap Motion Tracking.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 2, 2016

With the Leap Motion Unity Core Assets and Modules , you can start building right away with features like custom-designed hands, user interfaces, and event triggers. Each section includes links to more information, including high-level overviews, documentation, and examples. Leap Motion Core Assets.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

By leveraging a user’s understanding of real-world physical interactions, and avoiding gestures that don’t make sense in semantic terms, we can inform and guide them in using digital objects. In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. How does your background in architecture inform the structure and artistry of the experiences you create? These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward. What inspired that?

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Leapmotion

APRIL 28, 2015

This means that we have to be careful on how we use sound so that we aren’t giving people enough information to continue to ignore their weaker eye. We are also still planning on releasing a game for home use when the Oculus Rift CV1 comes out. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 18, 2015

You can download the Windows demo free for the Oculus Rift: frooxius.itch.io/world-of-comenius. Our brains are essentially association machines, creating links between various pieces of information and sensory stimuli. The post Why VR Will Transform How We Learn About the World and Ourselves appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Vincent McCurley’s post Storyboarding in Virtual Reality covers several techniques informed by Mike Alger’s work on VR interface design. Many developers are also using Oculus Medium to rapidly prototype scenes before committing to more robust scene designs. They also captured Oculus Story Studio a well-deserved Emmy.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Neurable has already proven that you can make some little games with a VR+BCI headset, but the EEG technology employed can only give very rough information about the brain status. Oculus official side distribution platform is coming soon. The technology is amazing, but I think it’s too rough to be reliably used nowadays in gaming.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The interface in Quill by Oculus builds on the physical skeumorphs of traditional PC design to create a familiar set of cues. In turn, they continue to inform our other bleeding-edge internal projects. At Leap Motion, we’ve been experimenting internally with a range of different interfaces that are part of the user.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now. Varag: Wow. This is fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now. Varag: Wow. This is fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

So those kinds of information, it’s very difficult to get in the real world, or you had to spend a lot of money to to actually build out versions of that physical cockpit, and then have people try it and then give you a feeling of what which one felt better. Well actually, your eyes point to different places. It was a disaster.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Alvin: It can probably go further than that, because micro expressions in your body really gives a sign of whether or not you’re telling the truth, or whether you’re fibbing, or whether you’re kind of making up things, and what part of your brain you’re looking at, that you’re trying to withdraw information from.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now. Varag: Wow. This is fun.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2020

TG0 thinks that current controllers like Valve Knuckles or Oculus Touch are nice if you are already a gamer, but they can become complicated for people that don’t come from a technical background , and that aren’t used to the standard abstractions provided by joysticks. It seems to check all the boxes.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 12, 2019

At a certain point, information got confused: someone received devkits, but then we had no more info about the company and the product. You choose… and Dexta even made a demo using the glove with Oculus Quest controllers! If you are into VR since a while, for sure the name Dexta Robotics isn’t new to you.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Leap Commander. Build Chinese. Who knows what’s next for me as a VR developer!”. CAD & OBJ Viewer.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

It will be something similar to the new Oculus Home. You may ask what has done Oculus at CES while HTC was generating hype around its devices. Everyone is hyped for the Quest (Image by Oculus). I really hope that this can become a product since we Oculus Rift owners want to get rid of the cable as well.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest. Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion) has just released the fifth version of its hands-tracking engine.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA. He has demonstrated even more original (and less scary) ideas for AR interaction while directing UX design at Leap Motion. 43- Dillon Seo - Co-Founder #Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. chuckles] OK, so how can people find out more information? Ferhan: Exactly. Self-capable, self-capable. Alan: Wonderful.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. chuckles] OK, so how can people find out more information? Ferhan: Exactly. Self-capable, self-capable. Alan: Wonderful.

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