Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 26, 2017

It looks like it will access HTC’s storefront, called Viveport, to get to virtual worlds rather than Google Play. It is unclear, however, how compelling the virtual worlds will be that you can visit with these standalones. “Our intent is to provide a best-in-class VR experience,” Graylin told UploadVR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 9, 2017

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

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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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. The headset has an inside out tracking system enabled by Intel’s amazing RealSense technology. This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. The headset has an inside out tracking system enabled by Intel’s amazing RealSense technology. This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! Then he described virtual reality advancements, highlighting the dominant role of China and HTC in this technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

After I moved, I could see the virtual world moving with a noticeable lag (the same lag that you may have using VR over Wi-fi streaming). A very nice idea , mixing the art of the past with the technology of the present. Miguel has also now a new company, called Eyedak, working as well on immersive technologies.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

Gloveone , created by NeuroDigital Technologies , successfully funded just over $150,000 on Kickstarter in July 2015 for the first version of their haptic VR glove which uses tiny vibrators placed at the ends of your fingers to create the sensation of touching virtual objects. The latency of the input was also quite impressive.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 9, 2018

Leap Motion is a company that has always been focused on human-computer interfaces. The fundamental limit in technology is not its size or its cost or its speed, but how we interact with it. Click To Tweet We believe that the fundamental limit in technology is not its size or its cost or its speed, but how we interact with it.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Technology is like a flash in the darkness – long nights building towards an instant when suddenly everything is different. Click To Tweet Leap Motion goes mobile. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. VR prototyping for less than $100 with Leap Motion + VRidge.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

We all love virtual reality, but sometimes it gives us big headaches. And not because of the motion sickness , but because something doesn’t work. 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!), ASUS HyStream.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2019

It was interesting that Mandala mixed the virtual and the real world. In the virtual world, we could clearly see at the center of the room a bowl full of sand and when we got there, we actually found a bowl full of sand. At that point, there was a stump in the center of the room, both in the real and virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

In particular, it envisions: XR headsets (especially AR ones) being tethered to the smartphone now; XR headsets wirelessly connected to the smartphone (via Wi-fi or similar technologies) in 1–4 years; Fully standalone lightweight XR headsets, connected via 5G, in 5–10 years. The weight is only 150g. Picture 1) More info (DPVR The Matrix?—?Picture

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Leapmotion

APRIL 22, 2014

Experimental headsets are changing how we see the world, either by creating the virtual worlds of our imaginations, like the Oculus Rift, or adding ghostly layers on top of the real world, like Google Glass. At the same time, GetVu wants to bring a new level of control to augmented reality with Leap Motion technology.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We’ve joined forces with Qualcomm Technologies to combine their Snapdragon 835 mobile platform with our embedded hand tracking technology so that people can interact with mobile VR content using their bare hands. We believe that technology works best when it’s both invisible and ubiquitous.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Meantime we already have iOS and Android smartphones and tablets: Microsoft Hololens, Google Glass and many others such as Magic Leap, North, Vuzix, Vrvana (acquired by Apple), SMI (same), Snap Spectacles (via the acquisition of Vergence), Bose, Meta View, nReal, DreamGlass, Epson, Rokid (working with the UK’s WaveOptics), Daqri and Realware.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

On the one hand, it’s a live performance ensemble that uses technology to explore new ways to create and perform music. Rob: Computer interfaces for creating and performing music have come a long way from early technologies like Max Mathews’ GROOVE system. What’s the idea behind the Stanford Laptop Orchestra?

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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. There are many ways we could handle grabbing a virtual spoon within a VR experience. Leap Motion’s Interaction Engine allows human hands to grab virtual objects like physical objects.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further? CAD & OBJ Viewer allows you to take a design directly from CAD into a virtual world where you can manipulate and verify the design without wasting precious time on rapid prototyping until you are ready.”

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I’ve been using Unity for over 5 years for developing 3D simulations and virtual world applications, data visualization solutions, and more recently for game projects.”. They form part of the unofficial Leap Motion Jp developers group. LEAPing into Accessibility. Requires: Windows, Mac. Earth Elevator.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

With countless new virtual worlds just around the corner, the future is already taking shape in hardware labs and hidden codebases around the globe. Last week at Vision Summit , Leap Motion CTO David Holz talked about the rapidly emerging future of VR technologies and what it means for human experience.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner. Ergonomics. The Sensor is Always On.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 25, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. Jody Medich is a UX designer and researcher who believes that the next giant leap in technology involves devices and interfaces that can “speak human.”

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 5, 2015

And whether that world is a space full of physical objects, or a parallel universe of our own creation, the best 3D interfaces are the ones that have the power to become part of the environment. Most of our experience of technology is through screens, or what I refer to as magic pieces of paper. This is significant. Marshall McLuhan.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Today we're speaking with Varag Gharibjanian, the chief revenue officer at Clay AIR, a software company shaping the future of how we interact with the digital world, using natural gesture recognition. We're going to find out how Clay will bring our real hands into the virtual world. Varag, welcome to the show, my friend.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Today we're speaking with Varag Gharibjanian, the chief revenue officer at Clay AIR, a software company shaping the future of how we interact with the digital world, using natural gesture recognition. We're going to find out how Clay will bring our real hands into the virtual world. Varag, welcome to the show, my friend.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

We all love to make speculations on the technology and I am no exception. Not because I am a genius, but because the technology is still evolving very slowly and so it is very predictable. Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. The most important news has been for sure the launch of the Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

They sold this money machine to focus on a technology that is currently not making any relevant money. Meta has released this feature in the SDK and runtime of Quest and Quest 3S, plus it has released some official samples that show how to use this new technology. Its a big bet on the bright future of XR.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Kshitij Marwah is a Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Technology Review Most Innovator Under The Age of 35.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Today we're speaking with Varag Gharibjanian, the chief revenue officer at Clay AIR, a software company shaping the future of how we interact with the digital world, using natural gesture recognition. We're going to find out how Clay will bring our real hands into the virtual world. Varag, welcome to the show, my friend.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

IDEALENS plans to partner with the leading human-computer interaction technology company Leap Motion to embed its next generation hand tracking technology in IDEALENS K3-E headset. This technology enables the Neo to deliver high fidelity control without the need for any external cameras, trackers or wires.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

The latest generation of XR technologies introduces radical new capabilities, from multi-user tracking in massive spaces, to 6DOF standalone headsets, to the ability to track hands, eyes, and lips. Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

The latest generation of XR technologies introduces radical new capabilities, from multi-user tracking in massive spaces, to 6DOF standalone headsets, to the ability to track hands, eyes, and lips. Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one. This meant that for Gartner, VR was not an emerging and experimental technology anymore, but it had already become something usable and useful. Gartner Hype Cycle 2019.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

“Imagine transforming the whole world into that particular shiny metal which holds the very notion of value,” says designer Peter Klinkon, whose company kernel-image creates digital content for the emerging virtual world. How will it change the way you feel about yourself and the world you live in?”. Neos: The Origin.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The front features a glossy plastic lid , that can be removed to uncover the so-called “frunk”, a hole with a USB-3 port , that can be used to attach accessories like Leap Motion to the Index. You can really notice that the virtual world is different, you see everything more fluid. It uses SteamVR 2.0

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