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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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In my case, the controllers weren’t detected in any app, not even in Unity when developing for VR. Leap Motion driver and runtime. There are anyway other tools that can help in configuring it properly. Where to look to perform a quick calibration (sorry for the Italian language of my PC). For instance, in MeetingRoom.io

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It is astonishing, especially if you consider that it is not a real fluid simulation, but just a very complicated shader. Developers can develop AR experiences with Zappar using the tool they like the most : Unity, native Javascript, A-frame, C++. Unity launches MARS tools. As a developer, I’m amazed.

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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. Since VRidge and our Unity Core Assets both take advantage of OpenVR, it’s possible for you to build and test your project using this minimal setup.

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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. Import a 3D model of a spoon into Unity and you’ll be able to see the mesh in full 3D but it won’t do much else. It’s possible using only physics simulations, but this is ridiculously inefficient.

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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. Simulations and situational therapy. Fake limbs. Iterating on Arm HUD.

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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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JULY 28, 2015

The demo puts you in control using a combination of Leap Motion interaction and a fully integrated Hands On Throttle and Stick (HOTAS) control system. Why a space simulator? Leap Motion + HOTAS Gamepad. Leap Motion + HOTAS Gamepad. Audio and visual feedback.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 14, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. What are the strengths of the Leap Motion Controller? It’s safe to assume the simulation genres will really benefit from virtual reality, but I really hope we see some more abstract experiences. Right hand holding the gory keys to the future.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 23, 2015

First, the Leap Motion Controller can provide intuitive hand interactions, but not necessarily intuitive player movement controls. Second, the 3D environment motion flows in immersive VR often cause “simulator sickness” and negative game experience. The Leap Motion assets for Unity are quite convenient and easy to use.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. The Virtuoso toolkit has been in development for several years, initially aimed towards military medical training and education by advancing medical simulation systems.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Charles ( @cwan2011 ) is a software developer experienced in both iOS and Unity game development. His project Let’s Go Fly a Kite is a physics simulation of kite-flying with some interesting twists and turns. “In Flip Out was created by Charles Wan and Julian Halliday. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Jenga Hero. Tatami Samurai.

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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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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

With Paper Plane , we studied the basic features of Leap Motion using fairly simple mechanics. That’s the feeling we wanted to simulate. What was it like incorporating Leap Motion into your Unity workflow? Unity provides a very natural way for the implementation of VR in your project.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

With an interactive simulation of a chemistry lab, you can try burning, exploding, irradiating, polymerizing, and more. 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. Requires: Windows, Mac. Earth Elevator.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2015

At expos like VRLA, I got to see what a powerful pairing the Leap Motion Controller and Oculus are and believe there is still so much left to explore!”. We started developing the game as seniors of Interactive Arts at MICA with the goal to simply create something fun and immersive using the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion.”. “In

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 19, 2016

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. The post 6 Hidden Gems from our Dev Gallery appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. Requires: Mac or Windows, Oculus Rift.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Cube Simulator. I honestly never heard of the Leap Motion Controller until someone posted on Facebook about the 3D Jam. Kaiyuan Ping is a 19-year-old indie developer and Sword Art Online fan who got hooked on virtual reality after seeing demos like ElementL: Ghost Story at Unity 2015. Adventure of Ball. Requires: Windows.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

I’ll be honest, this was the first time I’d ever had exposure to the Leap Motion Controller. In 2035, artificial intelligences compete in a battle simulation known as TVRD to spur the next stage of digital evolution. The post 12 Explosive Sci-Fi Games appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. Aside from this, my major work with Leap Motion is my game Robot Chess , a relatively simple game which allows you to use your hands to pick up and move around chess pieces as you play against a robotic AI opponent.

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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. In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner. Restrict Motions to Interaction. User Interface Design. Ergonomics.

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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

MARCH 15, 2018

How could we place, stack, and assemble virtual objects quickly and accurately while preserving the nuance and richness of full physics simulation? Check out our results below or download the example demo from the Leap Motion Gallery. This releases the springs and returns the objects to unconstrained physics simulation.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 25, 2018

One of the core design philosophies at Leap Motion is that the most intuitive and natural interactions are direct and physical. To counter this, we changed the target from your hand to an offset in front of you – plus a slight random torque to the object to simulate an explosive launch. A Chinese version is also available.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2016

At Leap Motion, we’ve been experimenting internally with a range of different interfaces that are part of the user. The post Beyond Flatland: User Interface Design for VR appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. However, they can also feel obtrusive, especially when their use is limited.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2018

This is because Leap Motion has announced its v4 version of the tracking runtime and with it three demos to showcase the new tracking functionalities: Cat Explorer, Particles, and Paint. Cat Explorer is an educational app made to show you all the anatomy of a cat and it obviously employs Leap Motion as the only medium of interaction.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Dynamically mapping rich features of input gestures to properties of physics-based simulation made the interface controllable in most cases. To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. So a lot of people got in and said, “hey, we’re gonna make games,” and then, “maybe we should make training simulators or something like that.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. So a lot of people got in and said, “hey, we’re gonna make games,” and then, “maybe we should make training simulators or something like that.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

John Riccitiello -- the CEO of Unity -- was one of the first to point out that there was going to be this great sort of gold rush of people who were going to overhype VR and its potential, and then we're going to see this gap of a disappointment where the early reality didn't match up with the hype and a lot of people were going to bail on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. So a lot of people got in and said, “hey, we’re gonna make games,” and then, “maybe we should make training simulators or something like that.”

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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. Using the Etee plugin inside Unity. Battery time. It seems to check all the boxes.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Dynamically mapping rich features of input gestures to properties of physics-based simulation made the interface controllable in most cases. To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking.

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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. UNITY ADDS MAP FUNCTION, SO LOCATION IS OFFICIALLY FOUNDATION FOR VR/AR GAMES.

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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. Want to watch your favorite movies in VR?

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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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