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Ultraleap Stereo IR 170 review: use your hands naturally in VR!

The Ghost Howls

I have appreciated it a lot, so I thought it could have been a cool idea to make a post for you to describe how it is and compare it with the previous Leap Motion controller. Some weeks ago, I have reviewed the new Leap Motion Gemini (v5) runtime , and I have appreciated its robustness. Are you in?

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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

The Ghost Howls

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. There are some typical questions that arise in the mind of the AR enthusiasts of the world: how is it? Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Is it good?

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

Road to VR

While there’s certainly a range of exciting games and other VR software coming soon to first-generation hardware, it feels like the market is steadily turning its attention toward next-generation technologies, and fostering a renewed sense of excitement and momentum. Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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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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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. Later a prerecorded video showed a woman in a small virtual world complete with a pet dog. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained.

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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. Later a prerecorded video showed a woman in a small virtual world complete with a pet dog. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained.

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SIGGRAPH 2017: Optitrack Reveals Tracking Puck For Full-Body VR Immersion

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If you go through the Ghostbusters virtual world with other people their bodies might not be represented in the correct positions. Two more Optitrack pucks on each hand or arm and the use of Leap Motion (which recently got big funding ) or gloves could provide the final bit of finger tracking for complete full-body immersion.

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