The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2022

Ultraleap Stratos Explore is the product for which Ultrahaptics (which later became Ultraleap after the fusion with Leap Motion) was famous. Ultraleap Stratos presents itself as a square box with a lot of tiny cylinders on it and a Leap Motion controller to track the hands. Ultraleap Stratos Explore.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2016

Leap Motion has announced it’s to early access to the beta of its Interaction Engine , a set of systems designed to help developers implement compelling, realistic and hopefully frustration-free input with just their hands.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

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. Valve Knuckles. Image courtesy @AntonHand.

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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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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

So by that measure, Pimax over-delivered at CES 2019 with its Leap Motion bundle featuring 8K VR headset with built-in speakers, 200° FOV and optional eye tracking being developed in partnership with 7invensun. Pimax holds the Guinness World Record for the most successful crowdfunded VR project with over $4m in funding.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Intel demonstrates “Merged Reality” wireless VR headset, Project Alloy. Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. 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

Intel demonstrates “Merged Reality” wireless VR headset, Project Alloy. Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2020

Varjo is a Finnish startup that is offering enterprise headsets that have full “retina vision” That is, looking at the display, you don’t see the pixels anymore , but you see the virtual world as you would see the real one, without any screen door effect. This is the one providing the magic. Hands tracking.

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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. Tagged with: gloves Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 6, 2018

At Leap Motion, we envision a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. At the heart of this experience is hand tracking, which unlocks interactions uniquely suited to virtual and augmented reality. Let’s build it together.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 9, 2018

Leap Motion is a company that has always been focused on human-computer interfaces. It would be no stretch of the imagination to say that the way we interact with the world around us is perhaps the very fabric of the human experience. The coming of virtual reality has signaled a great moment in the history of our civilization.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

At E3 2016 I got to see the latest prototype version of Gloveone, a haptic motion input glove designed for virtual reality. But that first version of the glove required a third-party tracking system like Leap Motion in order to translate the movement of the user’s hands into 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. Header image by Leap Motion). The post Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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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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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. 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). Anyway, that was bearable.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 22, 2016

I got the chance to try these gloves out for myself and I can confirm that they do an excellent job of bringing my hands into the virtual world in a believable way. Manus VR is hoping to alleviate that problem with their innovative glove design.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2019

It reminded me a bit the MetaMovie project that I described here on this blog, but instead of happening all in virtual reality in High Fidelity, it is organized in an installation in real reality. It was interesting that Mandala mixed the virtual and the real world.

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Leapmotion

JULY 14, 2018

Virtual reality. Augmented reality. Mixed, hyper, modulated, mediated, diminished reality. All of these flavours are really just entry points into a vast world of possibilities where we can navigate between our physical world and limitless virtual spaces. Some let you exist in other times and places.

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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. Leap Motion driver and runtime. but sometimes it is still tricky and problematic. So, choose your poison wisely. Some of them are: Kinect driver and runtime.

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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

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. Requires: Windows, Mac. Earth Elevator. HomeBright. Laser Tanks!

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 1, 2015

While in the neighborhood filming Takei’s Take in Austin, the incomparable George Takei swung by the studio to try Shark Punch – an underwater virtual reality experience that enables you to, well, you get the idea. ík delivered a brand-new way to wrap our hands around our world. However, one experience rose above them all.

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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. With the rising popularity of PC gaming and VR, there’s never been a better time to start building with one of the world’s most powerful game engines. GET THE PLUGIN. Switching Between VR/AR.

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Leapmotion

MAY 1, 2015

From the mouse and touchscreen, to hand tracking platforms like the Leap Motion Controller, the design of UI elements like the humble button is shaped by the hardware and how we use it. Users don’t always know what to expect, and this helps to build a mental model of how the virtual world works, and what each action achieves.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Matrix Pro will also feature a front camera that will let people alternate between vision of the real and virtual world. This is another great publicity for virtual reality, whose awareness is spreading always more outside the tech scene. The weight is only 150g. Picture 1) More info (DPVR The Matrix?—?Picture

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Leapmotion

MAY 14, 2016

That’s why we created CadaVR , a “living” virtual reality cadaver lab that emulates a real cadaver lab, minus the crowd (4-8 students per cadaver), unforgiving smell, and expensive cost. Get the project on the Leap Motion Developer Gallery ! You can reach out into the virtual world and grab objects with your hands.

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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 2, 2016

With the Leap Motion Unity Core Assets and Modules , you can start building right away with features like custom-designed hands, user interfaces, and event triggers. Leap Motion Core Assets. The Leap Motion Unity assets provide an easy way to bring hands into a Unity game. Let us know in the comments!

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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. The only question is how we can make the future more human as we take our first steps into places beyond reality. There’s also a solid discussion around the video here on r/oculus.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

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). Using the weather and fire packs, Fnordcorps from Spectacular-Ocular.com has been working on integrating different particle effects into Leap Motion hand controls.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Technology works best when it’s both invisible and ubiquitous #FreeYourHands #MobileVR Click To Tweet From the Mobile VR Platform that can be embedded into any headset, to our Interaction Engine that makes virtual worlds react in human ways, we’re continuing to push the boundaries of what’s possible in VR/AR.

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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. And then along comes virtual reality. An inherently 3D medium requiring designed virtual 3D objects, but without the limitations and guidance of physical functions. Designing Nonexistent Objects.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 23, 2015

When it comes to augmented reality, the right camera alignment and scale are absolutely essential to bridging the gap between real and virtual worlds. And as developers are already experimenting with image passthrough and hybrid reality resources like Image Hands , this is more important than ever.

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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). “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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