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Leap Motion Raises $50 Million For Its Finger Tracking Technology

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What’s unclear is just how you’ll be able to interact with the virtual worlds and objects produced inside these headsets. Leap Motion is one possible solution, with its hand and finger tracking technology offering one route for VR and AR headsets to let people make selections and interact with virtual worlds.

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These Gloves Let You Play Piano in VR—and Feel It

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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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New VR Glove Uses Muscle-Like Chambers To Simulate Touch

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It’s a finely tuned process designed to give you the sensation you’re actually lifting and touching objects, just like you would in the real world. In theory, the gloves could paired with other technologies like a Leap Motion sensor to simulate a wide range of activities.

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10 Projects That Have Us Excited About the Next Generation of VR & AR

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The larger field of view will make the virtual world feel much more encompassing and immersive. Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion. The world of AR is poised and waiting for its breakout headset.

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How to fix Vive controllers not working inside SteamVR games

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If SteamVR apps can’t detect your Vive controllers or you see your Vive/Oculus controllers fixed on a point on the ground in the virtual world without any possibility to move them, go on reading! Leap Motion driver and runtime. I so uninstalled WalkinVR and Riftcat VRidge. With no luck. 3DRuddder driver and runtime.

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What Makes a Spoon a Spoon? Form and Function in VR Industrial Design

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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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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

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The Matrix Pro will also feature a front camera that will let people alternate between vision of the real and virtual world. A video become viral this week shows how now you can enter the Half-Life: Alyx world and play with Vodka bottles, seeing the liquid that there is within realistically wobbling following gravity.