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Leap Motion Raises $50 Million For Its Finger Tracking Technology

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VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. What’s unclear is just how you’ll be able to interact with the virtual worlds and objects produced inside these headsets. The round was led by J.P. Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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HTC Announces Vive Standalone For The Chinese Market

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It looks like it will access HTC’s storefront, called Viveport, to get to virtual worlds rather than Google Play. It is unclear, however, how compelling the virtual worlds will be that you can visit with these standalones. “Our intent is to provide a best-in-class VR experience,” Graylin told UploadVR.

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

The Ghost Howls

I have also noticed that actually there is still something AR-related in the hype cycle, and it is the AR cloud , the system to create a complete worldwide mapping between the real and the virtual world. Header image by Leap Motion). Considering that companies like 6d.ai

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Intel’s Project Alloy Demonstrates “Merged Reality”

VRScout

This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking. Much like the Microsoft Hololens the user is looking at the real world and the device overlays virtual objects and avatars into your view so they appear to be part of the real world.

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Intel’s Project Alloy Demonstrates “Merged Reality”

VRScout

This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking. Much like the Microsoft Hololens the user is looking at the real world and the device overlays virtual objects and avatars into your view so they appear to be part of the real world.

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Project North Star is Now Open Source

Leapmotion

At Leap Motion, we envision a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. At the heart of this experience is hand tracking, which unlocks interactions uniquely suited to virtual and augmented reality. Let’s build it together.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.