The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

Some weeks ago, a group of 12 indie development studios decided to launch the first bundle dedicated to App Lab experiences for Oculus Quest. The user could buy the bundle and get access to sideloadable versions of the games, with the promise of a free key for when the game would have been approved by Oculus on App Lab.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. Header image by Leap Motion).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

And that’s ok, it is still a new technology and it has already made big steps forward (I remember all the computer crashes I had at the Oculus DK 2 times!), Recently I had a big issue with my VR controllers in SteamVR (both with Oculus and Vive) and so I’m writing this post to try to help you in solving it. With no luck.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

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). It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training.

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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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Leapmotion

MAY 3, 2015

We at Thomas Street have been eyeing the Oculus Rift for quite some time, paying particular attention to demos featuring novel interfaces. Outcome aside, working with the Oculus Rift is, you know, working with the Oculus Rift , so the experience was a ton of fun. Leap Motion UI summary. Initial Research.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend. Past weekend has been the weekend of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the company that has dominated the sales of VR hardware has been of course Oculu s, thanks to the discounts on Rift S and Go and the great reputation of the Oculus Quest. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

I found very interesting that they are trying to create full-body VR content for the Oculus Quest. I have instead tried another demo for Oculus Quest called Anamika, where you impersonate a four-armed Indian goddess. They showcased a series of 360 videos shot by them and that could be enjoyed through an Oculus Go. VR Pianist.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2016

The upgraded OLED panel has a resolution of 2160×1200 and refresh rate of 90Hz, bringing the screen’s on-paper specs up to that of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. No specialized tools are needed; the 10-page instructions appear simple enough for anyone who has opened up their desktop computer to replace RAM or other components.

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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.). It removes the extra utility tools to focus on an easy to use interaction development system, which is completely focalized on a painless and streamlined development process.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 25, 2014

You can read more about James’ work in his guest post on designing Diplopia for the Oculus Rift, which he built using our Unity Demo Pack ( update: now deprecated ). Want to see more projects with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion Controller? Update: Diplopia is now Vivid Vision. Update: Diplopia is now Vivid Vision.

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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. The post VR Interface Design and the Future of Hybrid Reality appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. It is VR’s medium defining process.”.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2017

At Leap Motion, our mission is to empower people to interact seamlessly with the digital landscape. Last year, we released an early access beta of the Leap Motion Interaction Engine , a layer that exists between the Unity game engine and real-world hand physics. Contact, Grasp, Hover. Graphic Renderer.

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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. Here’s what we’ve learned building menus for Leap Motion.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

That’s a bit disappointing and considering that in some months Oculus will release the Quest , that has full 6 DOF support, HTC had necessarily to do something. The official statement says “Developer tools will be made available to registered Viveport developers in the near future.” ” Can’t wait to try it.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device. The ecosystem around the AR Cloud has to include tools for Authoring: applications, behaviours, creation of assets and environments. Finally, what kinds of Transactions will happen in the AR Cloud?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Hand and eye tracking tools, capable of sensing the movements, gestures, and gaze of a user, can take XR experiences to a new level. These tools open the door for everything from completely hands-free XR user interfaces to intelligent foveated rendering. The company also supports eye tracking, for concepts like foveated rendering.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Mobile VR – iOS and Android. What Are the Key Features of MRTK-Unity? Diagnostics system.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Masahiro Yamaguchi (CEO, Psychic VR Lab), God Scorpion (Media artist, Psychic VR Lab), Keiichi Matsuda (VP Design, Leap Motion), Oda Yuda (Designer), Akihiro Fujii (CTO, Psychic VR Lab). Alex Colgan (Leap Motion): What inspired you to build a North Star headset? Recently we caught up with them. You can contact us here.

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Leapmotion

MAY 2, 2015

True to form, the ever-investigative VR community immediately began unpacking the possibilities a tool like this could bring to the field of animation. 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.”.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I’m Bastien Bourineau, project manager and lead developer at OpenSpace3D, and I’m back to introduce the new OpenSpace3D release with improved Leap Motion support – including how we got around the perennial indexing issue. The post 3D App Design and Easy Finger Indexing with OpenSpace3D appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 31, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’ve seen our fair share of impressive motion-controlled robots that will one day bring about the robocalypse. On another level, a high school student’s robotics project is combining the Oculus Rift and motion control to create an experience that takes you wherever the robot goes. Happy Halloween!

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Leapmotion

MARCH 2, 2016

Leap Motion’s new Orion software represents a radical shift in our controller’s ability to see your hands. The Core Asset Orion documentation has details on using the tools and the underlying API, but to help you get acquainted, here’s some background and higher-level context for how the package works and where it’s headed.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

As part of our global tour for the Leap Motion 3D Jam , we’re at Berlin’s Game Science Centre to take developers through our SDK and building with the latest VR tools. Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. and Oculus 0.5 Hey everyone! Why Hands in VR?

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Today we’re thrilled to announce the top 20 semi-finalists for the Leap Motion 3D Jam: Presented by IndieCade – our six-week global competition for $75,000 in cash and prizes. Requires the Oculus Rift.). Dodge obstacles by moving your head and destroy attacking robot enemies with Leap Motion-controlled cannons.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

My recent interest in virtual reality and Leap Motion input led to several interesting project ideas. Tips on Developing VR Tools. Building tools is particularly interesting at this early stage, as they can help developers (myself included) work around some difficult challenges. Developing with Leap Motion Tracking.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

With headsets like the Oculus Rift, the user’s eye lenses will remain focused at infinity. 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. This applies to everything from background noises to user interfaces.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

VSDK is a Unity-based solution for developers looking to create naturalistic user interactions whilst supporting a wide variety of headsets (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest) and peripherals (bHaptics TactSuit, Leap Motion, and ManusVR gloves.).

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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. Most Game-Changing Tool for Self-Expression.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

And all of this is easy, because every tool you need is in the palm of your hand. Built as a tool for developers, it’s highly customizable, and can include many nested levels of selectors, toggles, triggers, and sliders. The demo requires a Leap Motion Controller and (optionally) an Oculus Rift headset.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

C0NFL1CT features a natural movement locomotion system that did not induce motion sickness and lets the player move in any direction, while requiring only 4 square meters of free space and the Oculus Rift DK2 headset.”. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. “I Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 19, 2016

Requires: Mac or Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Mac or Windows, Oculus Rift. TOUCH with WebGL & Leap Motion. In a meditative experience WebGL, ThreeJS, and a post-processing tool are used to simulate the physical effects of interacting with falling sand. From: Spain.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

For example, you can use the Oculus Rift sensor instead of the OSVR sensor. There are also scripts available for the PlayStation Move controllers and It will only be a matter of time until the VR Oculus Touch controller can be added to this list. That way you can also you do a lot of fun tricks. What’s in the box.

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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? What types of tools or building blocks have helped you create a sense of immersion? How did each idea come about? VRARlab is on Twitter @VRARlab.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Creating a sense of space is one of the most powerful tools in a VR developer’s arsenal. Space and perspective are among the most powerful tools in a VR developer's arsenal. Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. With APIs for six programming languages and dozens of platform integrations, the Leap Motion SDK has everything you need to get started. The Sensor is Always On.

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