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We need camera access to unleash the full potential of Mixed Reality

The Ghost Howls

It was pretty cool using it inside a discotheque The tools we had were very limited: the Vive Focus had just a Snapdragon 835 processor, the image was black and white and low-resolution, we had to do everything at the Unity software level, and we had no environment understanding. Meta already does that with some features (e.g.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. Having haptic sensation on the palm is very important to increase the sense of presence when you are holding a tool in your hand.

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The Importance of Hand Tracking UX Design

The Ghost Howls

But, it’s a valuable tool for building your application in Unity. Due to the extra calculations happening in hand-tracking, it has higher latency compared to controllers. Precision and latency are the main factors in VR/AR hand-tracking user experience. Secondly, you have latency. But for now, it has limitations.

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HTC Vive announces 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and teases hand tracking for Vive Pro

The Ghost Howls

This is cool because without having to add external hardware like Leap Motion , all Vive Pro users will be able to use their hands inside VR experiences to interact with the VR environment. The official statement says “Developer tools will be made available to registered Viveport developers in the near future.”

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Designing VR Tools: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Leapmotion

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. It’s more like designing a room full of tools than a screen with buttons.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

There are also the underlying depth mapping systems such as Intel RealSense, Microsoft Kinect, Leap Motion, Occipital, Apple TrueDepth (with related acquisitions like PrimeSense and LinX), Nimble VR (acquired by Facebook), and Apple’s predicted move into ultra-wideband spatial sensing with the U1 chip announced as part of the iPhone 11 launch.

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3 Robots About to Break Into Your Everyday Reality

Leapmotion

At Leap Motion, we’ve seen our fair share of impressive motion-controlled robots that will one day bring about the robocalypse. At this stage, he says, bringing the latency down will be an important step in reducing sim sickness. Leap Motion can detect the hand gestures very accurately. Happy Halloween!