The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Facebook has acquired Ctrl+Labs some years ago, and now it is using its expertise to create a wristband that can sense the motion information that your brain is sending to your hands. Learn more (XR Collaboration) Learn more (Unity College). Some XR fun. Oh, a new VR collaboration platform… Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Ultraleap) Ultraleap launches Leap Motion Controller 2 Hand-tracking company Ultraleap has just announced the Leap Motion Controller 2 , the evolution of the iconic Leap Motion Controller, which is smaller and more precise than its predecessor.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

But now a new report from The Information informs us that it is also building its own operating system for those glasses, and it won’t be based on Android (like most of the operating systems for mobile devices, including standalone headsets), but made entirely custom. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit. Funny link.

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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. With our Interaction Engine Unity package, prototyping these kinds of physically inspired interfaces is easier than ever. Each stage is at your fingertips w/ #LeapMotion #Unity.

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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.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

It now supports Oculus Quest, HTC Vive and UltraLeap (former Leap Motion) systems of skeletal hand tracking for interactions based on realistic, and customizable, hand poses. VRTK proposes a simple grab system that can be coupled with the physic engine of Unity to define the desired behavior of the interaction you are creating.

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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++. Unity launches MARS tools. 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.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2017

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. This philosophy informs everything we do, from VR design sprints to our internal hackathons.

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Leapmotion

JULY 10, 2015

Have you ever received an MRI scan back from the lab and thought to yourself, “I’m not sure how even a medical professional could derive any insightful information from this blast of murky images?” Based on this information, a matrix can be drawn of all the connected regions. Leap Motion is a great tool for this.”.

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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 2, 2016

We’ve just released an updated version of our newly overhauled Unity Core Assets for the Orion Beta. There’s never been a better time to upgrade from the older Unity assets for V2 tracking, so we put together a quick guide to show you how. Delete the current Leap Motion assets from your project.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Building augmented reality demos in Unity with North Star is Graham’s first time programming. Click To Tweet By starting a new sharing site – Pumori.io , named after a Himalayan mountain – Graham hopes to collaborate with the open source AR community to explore and create new ways of manipulating information.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

“I’ve worked on front-end web applications, middleware, server software and databases, but the most fun I’ve had in recent years has been with the Unity game engine. The Earth Elevator makes several stops along the way to provide you with information and time to look around. Requires: Windows, Mac. HomeBright. Laser Tanks!

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Leapmotion

MARCH 4, 2016

This week we’re excited to share Pinch Utilities , a new module for our Unity Core Assets that gives you access to the power of pinch. Pinch Utilities is a basic component for detecting a pinch gesture and providing useful information about it. Inside the Pinch Utilities module, you’ll find a Unity Behavior called LeapPinchDetector.

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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

JUNE 12, 2015

Note that some assets (like Image Hands and Widgets) are not currently available for the Orion Unity Core Assets. 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. User Interface Design.

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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. So not only was it pleasing to look at, but it conveyed the necessary information, as well. 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

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’re making VR/AR development easier with Widgets: fundamental UI building blocks for Unity. One of the major features of Planetarium is the ability to travel around the globe using motion controls. The problem is that, in Unity, either order of operations is possible! Why is this a problem?

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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? The post <i>Weightless</i> Creator Martin Schubert on Designing a Zero-Gravity Sci-Fi Playground appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 15, 2018

Check out our results below or download the example demo from the Leap Motion Gallery. The advanced hand-based physics layer of the Leap Motion Interaction Engine makes the foundational elements of grabbing and releasing virtual objects feel natural. The Challenge. In that instant we feel actual physical resistance.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 18, 2015

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. How do you think VR will transform the face of education?

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

These questions are informed by the physical structure of the space, and in turn identify problems (and potential solutions) with that space. To create VR Cockpit , our team rapidly designed different geometric models in Maya and exported them to Unity. The post World Design: Setting the Stage appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In turn, they continue to inform our other bleeding-edge internal projects. The UI Input Module provides a simplified interface for physically interacting with World Space Canvases in Unity’s UI System. At Leap Motion, we’ve been experimenting internally with a range of different interfaces that are part of the user.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2020

Starting from these data, the runtime can also extract some higher level information, like for instance some gestures : it detects if you are pointing at something (only the index finger is open), if you are pinching (thumb and index fingers are squeezing), etc… The runtime detecting some gestures (GIF by TG0). Battery time.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

I read (and watched) lots of materials about the Oculus Connect 6, and it is time for me to merge all this info into a super-big-fat-article with all you need to know on the Oculus Connect 6 , so that all of you in the communities can stay informed on what has happened without reading more than 60 articles as I did! Let’s start!

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Leap Motion enables new ways of using our devices but we still unconsciously use the mouse and keyboard as a model, missing potentially intuitive solutions,” the team told us. ” Requires: Windows. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The 6-minute film presented an exploratory – and largely dystopic – vision of how our reality could soon be overloaded and overlaid with information. Matsuda himself subsequently began working in AR following the film's release, leading design teams at both Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) and Microsoft.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. Turning Data into Information Trends A stream of XYZ hand coordinates is useful. Smart software can turn data into higher-level information.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

He has demonstrated even more original (and less scary) ideas for AR interaction while directing UX design at Leap Motion. Arvind Neelakantan was earlier part of Unity India & was instrumental in the adoption and growth of the company's solutions across product verticals. 25- Pankaj Raut. 37- Arvind Neelakantan.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

But this is known since a lot (see all the work researchers are doing with smart prosthetics), and the Matrix is something far more different than it : it would require injecting information into all areas the brain, something for which now we have just very simple experiments. Anyway, see you in Half-Life today! from 2019.

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