Peter Graham

APRIL 9, 2020

To view 3D content without the need for glasses, virtual reality (VR) headsets or any other face-base contraption you’ll need a holographic display like The Looking Glass. The Unreal Engine plugin feature list is as follows: Real-time 3D view of content in Unreal’s Game View. Leap Motion Controller support.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 31, 2016

Bringing hands into virtual reality just got a major upgrade. Now officially integrated in Unreal Engine 4.11 , getnamo’s independent plugin for Leap Motion makes it faster and easier than ever to integrate Leap Motion Orion into your VR projects! Visit developer.leapmotion.com/unreal to get started.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 8, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. An avalanche of new virtual reality devices has arrived. We see headsets, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs, and body suits. Many game engines—such as Unity, Unreal, and SteamVR—immediately support it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more. 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

APRIL 5, 2016

Along with last week’s Unreal 4.11 Here’s a quick guide to everything from Lighthouse tracking to Unreal development. AltspaceVR is a virtual social space where you can strap on your Vive and meet people from around the world. How can I build with Unreal Engine? Have a question about Leap Motion + HTC Vive?

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. 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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Leapmotion

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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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. GET THE PLUGIN.

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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). In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! Whimsical fall leaves, melancholy rain, spooky fog – weather can be a powerful way to set the tone for your virtual world (or give your users Storm-like superpowers).

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VRGuy

APRIL 25, 2015

Illustration from Meta SpaceGlasses Can the OSVR project be used not just for virtual reality but also for augmented reality? Provide optimized connectors to popular engines such as Unity and Unreal. Absolutely! Provide user parameter such as eye separation. Support of multiple operating systems and hardware platforms.

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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. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

SDK, this is an exciting time for virtual reality. How about Unreal Engine? Unreal Engine 4.11 doesn’t currently have Oculus 1.3 Once it arrives, the new official Leap Motion UE4 plugin should work with it right away. Do Leap Motion demos work with the 1.3 But not today! counterparts.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 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. Once the most underrated element of virtual reality, sound is now widely recognized to be a major element in creating VR with “presence.” Unreal Engine documentation.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

There are a number of ways to create your own virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) app/videogame. The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

When virtual reality and musical interface design collide, entire universes can be musical instruments. Created by artists Rob Hamilton and Chris Platz for the Stanford Laptop Orchestra , Carillon is a networked VR instrument that brings you inside a massive virtual bell tower. What was the design and testing process like?

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

As part of our global tour for the Leap Motion 3D Jam , we’re at Berlin’s Game Science Centre to take developers through our SDK and building with the latest VR tools. Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. Hey everyone! Why Hands in VR? Escaping from Flatland.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 30, 2016

Since we’re giving away five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credits as part of our 2016 developer survey , we thought we’d share some more cool stuff you can buy with cold hard virtual cash. Recently updated for Orion, Custom Pointer lets you turn any Transform or Leap Motion finger into a pointer that can interact with the UI.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post, we’ll cover everything you need to know about our integrations and best practices for augmented and virtual reality, desktop, and the Internet of Things. With APIs for six programming languages and dozens of platform integrations, the Leap Motion SDK has everything you need to get started.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

This morning, our second annual 3D Jam kicks off with developers around the world competing for over $75,000 in cash and prizes – building brand new experiences for virtual reality, desktop, mobile, and beyond. Virtual reality experiences dominated the field, representing 14 of the top 20 and taking all three finalist spots.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

. “To improve the usability of virtual keyboards for text input,” says creator Soma, “I investigated key selection methods and shapes and layouts of virtual keys, then proposed a new user interface design utilizing tip pinch, and implemented a prototype application. ” Requires: Windows.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset. Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

OSVR (Open Source Virtual Reality) aims to create an open and universal standard for the discovery, configuration, and operation of VR/AR devices. 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.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. Increased Device Diversity leads to more Choices for Customers Trends An avalanche of new virtual reality devices arrived. We see goggles, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs and body suits.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

Probably Ultraleap, or even when it was just Leap Motion, should have aimed to be bought by a headset manufacturer before all the major XR brands started developing hand tracking internally. This is something absolutely impossible to have with Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

AI reconstruction of how the launch of the Deckard may happen The controllers are an optimized version of Valve Index Controllers , smaller and more reliable, even if I’m told that the headset can also track the hands thanks to an integrated Leap Motion controller.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Then there are the problems that are inherent to all hands-tracking solutions like Leap Motion : no haptic feedback, virtual hands that trespass objects they are interacting with, and such. This is possible, even if I personally think that it sounds more like a sibling of the Quest than a successor of the Go.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You need quite a bit of technical knowledge if you want to use the OSVR (Open Source Virtual Reality). The other side of the belt clip is connected to the headset itself, there is an extra USB port on the belt clip, this is probably for devices such as a Leap Motion. This cable is connected to the belt clip.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 16, 2016

Let us know in our 2016 developer survey and get the chance to win one of five $100 Unreal/Unity asset credits ( full details ). The post 6 Pinchy Projects: Sword Art Online, Planetary Genesis, 3D Art and More appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. What’s your favorite pinch project – and what new resources would you like to see?

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I studied under Nick Mitchell at the China Virtual Reality Institute of Technology for 5 weeks to learn how to make games using Leap Motion and Unity.”. Did you ever want to become a powerful mage and cast reality-shattering spells? I had a dream to create a game by myself. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Research is being done to evaluate the use of virtual reality also to treat chronic pain. Epic Games has sued Nreal because its name is too close to “Unreal”, which is its trademark. There’s now an unofficial mod available to play Red Dead Redemption 2 in Virtual Reality! Some news on content. RDR2 in VR!

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