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.

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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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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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Next Reality VR

AUGUST 26, 2016

Leap Motion created gesture control for all sorts of things, including virtual reality, long ago, but developers must build in support for their tracking peripheral to use its full potential. Leap Motion explains: The Interaction Engine is a layer that exists between the Unity game engine and real-world hand physics.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. Go to SideQuest Sponsored Area Do you need a virtual world? For example, while holding a physical prop, such as a welding torch, the hand tracking remains robust.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I have also noticed that actually there is still something AR-related in the hype cycle, and it is the AR cloud , the system to create a complete worldwide mapping between the real and the virtual world. Header image by Leap Motion). Considering that companies like 6d.ai

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

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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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

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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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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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

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Click To Tweet Leap Motion goes mobile. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. MARCH 2: To match the new capabilities of Leap Motion Orion with the performance demands of VR, we gave our Unity toolset an overhaul from the ground up. Click To Tweet AUG.

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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. As we explore this newfound ability, it becomes increasingly clear that this power will not be limited to some ‘virtual world’ separate from our own. The post Unveiling Project North Star appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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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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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 guy and a girl from Prague showcased in Stereopsia a simple demo where you could play the piano with a Vive with a Leap Motion mounted on. Anyway, that was bearable. VR Pianist.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

If SteamVR apps can’t detect your Vive controllers or you see your Vive/Oculus controllers fixed on a point on the ground in the virtual world without any possibility to move them, go on reading! Leap Motion driver and runtime. So, choose your poison wisely. Some of them are: Kinect driver and runtime.

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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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Leapmotion

MAY 27, 2015

Our Image Hand next-gen software demo brings these two worlds together by projecting the raw images of your hands into a 3D mesh that can interact with other objects in real-world space. The part of the mesh that you can see is covered by the passthrough from the twin Leap Motion cameras. Glowing with Confidence.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today, we are taking the spatial computing industry to yet another level as we announce the availability of the full 6DoF developer kit for the Vive Wave open ecosystem, and a host of new 6DoF content and technologies to more easily bring users into fully immersive virtual worlds.

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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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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

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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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

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. How about reducing the scale of the player relative to the virtual world? With this approach, we’d increase the scale of the virtual world by a factor of 1.6 (IPD/ICD),

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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

JUNE 9, 2015

The addition of VR to that arsenal has been extremely eye-opening, as the ability to build virtual instruments and experiences that leverage depth and space – literally allowing musicians to move inside a virtual instrument and interact with it while retaining a sense of place – plays off of musicians learned abilities to coax sound out of objects.

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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. The weight is only 150g. More info (Mova and Manova) More info (iQUT 2Pro) More info (DPVR The Matrix?—?Picture Picture 1) More info (DPVR The Matrix?—?Picture Picture 2). The 8th Wall introduces Face Effects.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

There are also the underlying depth mapping systems such as Intel RealSense, Microsoft Kinect, Leap Motion, Occipital, Apple TrueDepth (with related acquisitions like PrimeSense and LinX), Nimble VR (acquired by Facebook), and Apple’s predicted move into ultra-wideband spatial sensing with the U1 chip announced as part of the iPhone 11 launch.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2015

Last January, Leap Motion Experience Engineer Isaac Cohen delivered a lively code sermon for an audience of over 500 HTML5 enthusiasts about how to create rich 3D universes for your browser – your “happy place” – in WebGL. ík delivered a brand-new way to wrap our hands around our world. It’s visually stunning.

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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

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. feet) right now.

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Leapmotion

MAY 14, 2016

Get the project on the Leap Motion Developer Gallery ! You can reach out into the virtual world and grab objects with your hands. Fortunately, Leap Motion provides this information, which makes writing the code a lot easier. We want to improve education around the world, and we know we can’t do it alone.

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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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