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

APRIL 11, 2020

To update Etee’s firmware, you have to use the firmware update tool provided with the runtime. You have to connect one controller at a time to the USB port of your PC with the USB cable provided and use the window of the tool to update the firmware using a firmware file you have downloaded online. Use with virtual reality.

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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2018

Today we’re excited to share the second half of our design exploration along with a downloadable demo on the Leap Motion Gallery. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Martin is Lead Virtual Reality Designer and Evangelist for Leap Motion. Tool adjustments.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

It was pretty cool using it inside a discotheque The tools we had were very limited: the Vive Focus had just a Snapdragon 835 processor, the image was black and white and low-resolution, we had to do everything at the Unity software level, and we had no environment understanding. Meta already does that with some features (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Robust to handling objects: Hyperion offers superior hand tracking while holding an object in your hand, making it perfect for mixed reality. Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

If you’re following this tutorial, I assume you already know: How to install Unity and all the Android Tools; How to put your Quest in developer mode; How to develop a basic Unity application for the Quest. Check the “Virtual Reality Supported” flag. the ones from Leap Motion). Prerequisites.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Simple interactivity with the orbs is possible with motion control; the experience will support all major VR hardware, but is likely to feel most engaging when used with the Leap Motion hand tracking system. To progress to the next chapter, you’re asked to leave your own audio message behind, for others to discover.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 24, 2016

Leap Motion shows off Interaction Engine for their VR hand-tracking tech VR makes the most sense when you don’t have to learn the controls and stuff just works. The new developer tools are now available as a module for their Unity Core Assets. Read more here.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Theoretically, the SenseGlove can be used outside VR, but practically speaking it is inside the virtual reality that it shines , because it is able to give more realism to your VR experiences by offering more realistic touch sensations. SenseGlove is an exoskeleton for your hands that is able to provide you haptics sensations.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. But, it’s a valuable tool for building your application in Unity. The image above is a Leap Motion hand-tracking demo. Tracking Volume: Proximity.

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Leapmotion

JULY 22, 2015

We’ve come a long way since we first launched the Leap Motion Controller two years ago. 28th, developers around the world will build innovative experiences for virtual reality, desktop, mobile, and beyond. Augmented and virtual reality experiences built on tethered HMDs 1st Prize: $10,000. AR/VR TRACK.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 27, 2015

From the operating room to virtual reality, here are 5 ways that people are using Leap Motion tech for medical and assistive applications. Solution: One of TIME Magazine’s Top 25 Inventions of 2014, MotionSavvy’s UNI is a two-way communication tool for the deaf using Leap Motion and speech technologies.

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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 ! The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

For this reason, sound is more than just an immersive tool – how (and where) objects around you sound has an enormous effect on your understanding of where they are, especially when you’re not looking at them. Virtual reality is an exciting medium, but for first time users it can take a few minutes to master its limitations.

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Leapmotion

MAY 27, 2015

We believe that augmented reality and virtual reality are just waypoints along a spectrum of possible experiences. It starts with pure reality, which can be augmented with virtual objects that respond to real-world actions. When every real object has been hidden, you’ve entered virtual reality.

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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. There are anyway other tools that can help in configuring it properly. To enter SteamVR Beta, open Steam and Select Library -> Tools. Choose Properties.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Developers can develop AR experiences with Zappar using the tool they like the most : Unity, native Javascript, A-frame, C++. Unity launches MARS tools. After many months of teasing them, Unity has finally launched the MARS tools, a suite of tools to build easily Augmented Reality experiences in Unity without knowing how to code.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Could virtual reality retrain our brains to reverse some types of vision problems? As an adult, James decided to try retraining his brain using a combination of Leap Motion hand tracking and VR. Using Leap Motion hand tracking, the game lets the player navigate various controls and play six different games.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 23, 2014

How pervasive will virtual reality be? Mozilla’s recent experiments combining VR and the web pave a path towards virtual presence – pushing beyond disconnected feelings of immersion and bringing us into new places with a life of their own. We’ve been working with Mozilla to make the web a killer app for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

One month ago, I’ve participated in the Stereopsia event in Bruxelles (Belgium) to perform a talk about how to organize an event in virtual reality. As you can see there are tools like Block Programming that can make life easier for non-developers. A photo of the game engine offered by Altheria Solutions. VR Pianist.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

And we also used collaborative tools like Figma to produce covers, ads, as the launch. Now that the Quest pitch process is gone, Oculus must find a way to help the vast majority of developers market their apps and games , with as many marketing tools as possible. Playing around with the Leap Motion interaction system.

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Leapmotion

MAY 17, 2015

In the process of building applications and various UX experiments at Leap Motion, we’ve come up with a useful set of heuristics to help us critically evaluate our gesture and interaction designs. The team at Leap Motion is constantly working to improve the accuracy and consistency of our tracking technology.

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Leapmotion

MAY 3, 2015

We all grew tired of talking about how we wanted to explore VR development, so we allocated several weeks to tinkering with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion — staffing one full-time developer and a few designers part-time. We got things started by downloading the most popular Oculus Rift / Leap Motion demos and giving them a try.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Hand and eye tracking tools, capable of sensing the movements, gestures, and gaze of a user, can take XR experiences to a new level. These tools open the door for everything from completely hands-free XR user interfaces to intelligent foveated rendering. The company also supports eye tracking, for concepts like foveated rendering.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

It removes the extra utility tools to focus on an easy to use interaction development system, which is completely focalized on a painless and streamlined development process. Like every open source project, several of its scripts are interdependent and they require some time to fully understand how to combine them.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 25, 2014

By creating a game that forces your eyes to work together, he hopes to offer a therapeutic virtual-reality solution that makes it fun for people to overcome their amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus with games. Want to see more projects with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion Controller?

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Click To Tweet When someone first puts on a Leap Motion-enabled VR headset, it often seems like they’re rediscovering how to use their own hands. When we bring our hands into a virtual space, we also bring a lifetime’s worth of physical biases with us. From Flat Screens to VR Interfaces. In a sense, they are.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Recently we created a quick VR sculpture prototype that combines the latest and greatest of these tools. Click To Tweet The Leap Motion Interaction Engine lets developers give their virtual objects the ability to be picked up, thrown, nudged, swatted, smooshed, or poked. Rapid Prototyping and Development at Leap Motion.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). The ecosystem around the AR Cloud has to include tools for Authoring: applications, behaviours, creation of assets and environments.

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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. It’s more like designing a room full of tools than a screen with buttons.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Masahiro Yamaguchi (CEO, Psychic VR Lab), God Scorpion (Media artist, Psychic VR Lab), Keiichi Matsuda (VP Design, Leap Motion), Oda Yuda (Designer), Akihiro Fujii (CTO, Psychic VR Lab). Alex Colgan (Leap Motion): What inspired you to build a North Star headset? Recently we caught up with them.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 21, 2017

strLast time, we looked at how an interactive VR sculpture could be created with the Leap Motion Graphic Renderer as part of an experiment in interaction design. The Leap Motion Interaction Engine provides the foundation for hand-centric VR interaction design. SculptureInteraction: Using Interaction Engine Callbacks.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2017

These rules are so fundamental that we design our digital realities to reflect human expectations about how things work in the real world. At Leap Motion, our mission is to empower people to interact seamlessly with the digital landscape. Today, we’re excited to release a major upgrade to this tool kit. Graphic Renderer.

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Leapmotion

JULY 10, 2015

Leap Motion is a great tool for this.”. In the beginning, I wanted to develop a haptic glove that I could use with Leap Motion in a virtual reality scenario, allowing me to feel the stuff I touched.” I’m loving working with Leap Motion so I’ve postponed the glove component of the project a bit.”.

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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. Situ founded Virtual Reality Pop , the #1 Medium.com publication on immersive technology with over 37,000 subscribers.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 9, 2018

Manufacturing optics with this level of precision requires expensive tooling, so we “turned” to diamond turning (the process of rotating an optic on a vibration-controlled lathe with a diamond-tipped tool-piece). We ended up with something roughly the size of a virtual reality headset.

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Leapmotion

MAY 2, 2015

True to form, the ever-investigative VR community immediately began unpacking the possibilities a tool like this could bring to the field of animation. Does virtual reality have the potential to unlock new technical and artistic workflows? In its current iteration, Jere’s VR animation tool uses our Unity UI widgets.

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