Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2018

As part of its interactive design sprints, Leap Motion , creators of the hand-tracking peripheral of the same name, prototyped three ways of effectively interacting with distant objects in VR. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Guest Article by Barrett Fox & Martin Schubert.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 11, 2024

Side view of the optical setup, with a horizontal surface and a reclined glass In front of this setup, there was a Leap Motion Controller 2 sensor. The system was showing me some simulated 3D maps of mountains , I guess to simulate the use case of showing a 3D map through the windshield of a car.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 9, 2017

In theory, the gloves could paired with other technologies like a Leap Motion sensor to simulate a wide range of activities. A full-body suit would need to be able to differentiate between pressure, impact, or muscle simulations on different areas of your body, which would also need to be fine-tuned from a software perspective.

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Cats and VR

JULY 17, 2017

Leap Motion, Inc., the leading creator of motion tracking technology for natural input in virtual and augmented reality, today announced $50 million in Series C funding led by clients advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Private Equity Group, has joined Leap Motion’s board of directors.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Combining three discrete technologies, researchers at UC San Diego have created a glove that simulates real-life force in virtual worlds. Researchers at University of California-San Diego have designed a new lightweight glove that can replicate the feeling of touch, using it to play piano.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion. Not wanting to wait for the future to one day show up, Leap Motion has designed its own prototype AR headset which is made to give developers a development platform which represents the input and output experience that future AR headsets will hopefully one day provide.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 16, 2019

For more natural hands-on interactions, Varjo’s VR-2 Pro features built-in Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion) hand-tracking technology that removes the need of physical controllers and letting users engage with the VR environment using their own two hands. Image Credit: Varjo. Image Credit: Varjo. “We

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VRScout

AUGUST 7, 2019

This USB-C input can also be used to connect a variety of compatible controllers, including the Leap Motion tracker, Intel’s Realsense, even a Nintendo Joy-Con. Image Credit: VRScout.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This is especially a big relief for universities, for which allocating this annual year was a huge bureaucratic mess The Varjo Focal edition is mostly used in simulations, where the customer wants to see reality with great accuracy. For now, anyway, tracking is already good for simulation use.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs. Best Interaction Design: Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs. Blocks – Leap Motion. Best Game: Raw Data – Survios. The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed – Cloudhead Games. The Climb – Crytek. Space Pirate Trainer – I-Illusions (Winner) . Bullet Train – Epic Games. The Lab – Valve.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

We’ve seen the company use the technology before on everything from collaborative group meetings between team members to a simulator that lets you drive an Audi in a sandbox track. Volkswagen Group is back again with yet another VR project that continues to prove just how much faith the German automaker truly has in the immersive medium.

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XROM

JUNE 2, 2023

The Leap Motion Controller 2 is the ideal hardware for experiencing Ultraleap’s world-class hand tracking. Key improvements over the original Leap Motion Controller include higher resolution cameras, an increased field of view, and 25% lower power consumption, all in a 30% smaller package for optimum placement and convenience.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

The SenseGlove can apply a strong force-feedback to stop your fingers , to simulate a solid object in your hands, like a bottle, or it can just apply some resistance , to simulate a malleable material, like the one of an anti-stress ball. When you grasp an object in VR, the gloves apply force-feedback to your fingers and block them.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2020

TG0 already provides the input mappin g so that you can emulate the input of the Vive Wand with your Etee controller : for instance, the thumb touchpad is equivalent to the Vive Touchpad, and the Index squeezing the controller simulates the Vive trigger. Mapping Etee input to Vive Wand input (Image by TG0). It seems to check all the boxes.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Leap Motion – Leap Motion. Industrial Training International – ITI Crane Simulator. Merge VR – Goggles. Google – Daydream View. Samsung – Gear VR. Homido – V2. Nominees for VR Hardware of the Year. Somniacs – Birdly. Oculus – Touch. Ultrahaptics – Ultrahaptics.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 12, 2019

Basically, the glove is able to simulate the forces that objects apply to your hands in the real world. Force-feedback gloves are able to apply a force to your fingers so that to simulate a force happening in real life. Anyway, this is enough to simulate many of the actions and the gestures needed in VR (e.g. Force-feedback.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 24, 2016

VR was utilized in military simulations long before it became a cheaper, consumer-level technology, but now that headsets are in homes, one well-known simulator is going to use them. Battlespace 3 isn’t a game that you simply pick up from Steam, it’s a full blown simulator intended for training and professional use.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2016

All of this however was done without any sort of tracking, a duty that PowerClaw has rested on the backs of optical hand tracking devices like Leap Motion. The gloves each had a thick cable leading to a single 3D printed breakout box that provided the voltage necessary to run the glove’s interactions.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

At Leap Motion, we believe that the next wave of technological interfaces will rely on the original human operating system: your hands. With HackingEDU just around the corner, Leap Motion is sponsoring the world’s largest education hackathon with over 100 Leap Motion Controllers for attendees to use.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

San Francisco-based Leap Motion has raised a $50M Series C for their hand- and finger-tracking technology. The round was led by JP Morgan Asset management, and this fresh influx of cash brings Leap Motion’s total funding to almost $95M. via The Venture Reality Fund. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

A future runtime could offer more functionalities , a bit like it has happened with Leap Motion that in 2012 was a rough accessory and now is an amazing hands tracking device. The sensors read all the brainwave data, and at the moment this data is abstracted to just give you an index of a selection. Hands-on with the demos.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

It has bought the hand-tracking company Leap Motion various months ago for $30M since the two hardware are a perfect fit the one for the other. This Area 51 VR simulator shows you what the US government is hiding to us! Lucas Rizzotto is working on a horror VR game with a talking toilet! :O. Funny link. Funny link. Funny link.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. This transforms your phone into a VR headset screen, simulating devices like the HTC Vive. Setup your Google Cardboard with Leap Motion Controller. Install the Leap Motion Orion software. Getting Started.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 20, 2018

At Leap Motion, we’re always looking to advance our interactions in ways that push our hardware and software. Click To Tweet With this demo, we have the magic of Leap Motion hand tracking combined with a handheld paddle controller. That’s right – table tennis. As we augment our reality, we augment ourselves.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 15, 2019

VRgineers’ first product was the VRHero 5K Plus before its successor arrived in 2018, offering improved visuals, greater field of view (FoV), automatic IPD adjustment (AutoEye) and integrated hand tracking thanks to built-in Leap Motion technology.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

I’m talking about programs that add special functionalities to SteamVR, like the ability to do different things with the controllers (like using the controllers’ movements to simulate room-scale movements) or the ability to use mobile headsets and so on. Leap Motion driver and runtime. With no luck. ASUS AI Suite 3.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 1, 2015

This week, Daniel Church achieved lift-off with a successful Kickstarter campaign for his virtual reality flight simulator. FlyInside FSX is a plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator and Prepar3D that brings you inside a completely realistic airplane flight deck. Want to reach into a VR cockpit that’s a little closer to Earth?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs. Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs. Blocks – Leap Motion. The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed – Cloudhead Games. The Climb – Crytek. Bullet Train – Epic Games. SEE ALSO 'Raw Data' Early Access Review. Waltz of the Wizard – Aldin Dynamics. SoundStage – Logan Olson. The Lab – Valve.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Martin Schubert is a VR Developer/Designer at Leap Motion and the creator of Weightless and Geometric. All this and we’d still have a rather clunky spoon, capable of crudely pushing around other rigid objects within the physics simulation. It’s possible using only physics simulations, but this is ridiculously inefficient.

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Everything VR & AR

OCTOBER 5, 2017

On this episode we are joined by Amy Peck who is the founder of EndeavorVR, a leading global VR/AR strategy & consulting firm, co-founder of BoundlessXR, a simulation & training platform, and is also Head of Enterprise Strategy at UploadVR. Amy launched the Enterprise division at Leap Motion before starting her own company.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Focused, acute pulses simulate sharp points; broader, more distributed ones can simulate sensations like dipping into water. The suit’s gloves will simulate gripping objects by restricting finger movement: wrap your hands around a hard plastic cup in VR, and your gloves will freeze at the point where you can’t squeeze any further.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

It also provides quick prototyping through in-editor simulation that permits instantaneous viewing of changes. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift.

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Steki Amusement

AUGUST 1, 2024

A variant of its best-selling 6 DoF PCVR E4, this new headset is integrated with Ultraleap’s Leap Motion Controller 2 hand tracking camera, allowing operation and interaction within a VR environment naturally and without separate controllers. Additionally, it includes easily replaceable cables for effortless maintenance.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Hand tracking has always been one of those options that sound nice in principle, but would you actually pay for it, adding a Leap Motion device or something a little more extravagant like a data glove?

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Leapmotion

JULY 18, 2015

Recently, Leap Motion kicked off one of our internal hackathons, where small teams pitch and develop quick demos over the course of two days. Due to safety concerns, the team ultimately decided to make it into a sit-down space simulator where stars, comets, space dust, and planets fly past you. Utility: Swipey Joe McDesktop.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Voice input is something Microsoft can do , but hand-tracking is a separate and enormously difficult problem despite companies like Leap Motion working hard at it. Very early prototype controllers from Valve that simulated gripping and dropping objects.

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