Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Jasper Brekelmans, a Netherlands-based 3D tech artist, has recently released a motion capture tool offering an easy way to record OpenVR tracking data from headsets, motion controllers and Vive Trackers for both Vive and Rift setups.

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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. With the sculpture’s shapes rendering, we can now craft and code the layout and control of this 3D shape pool and the reactive behaviors of the individual objects.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Now featuring full head-mounted support for the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2, Collider brings together raw infrared imagery with full 3D immersion – and it’s available free on the Leap Motion App Store. The progression is self-driven, so you control the speed and intensity of the experience. Trailer by Edwon. leapmotiondeveloper.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Plasma Ball VR stays at a comfortable distance while being controlled by your hands, using tracking data combined with raw image passthrough. When the Leap Motion Controller is mounted on a VR headset, it can see beyond your virtual field of view, but your hands will occasionally fall out of sensor range.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As mainstream VR/AR input continues to evolve – from the early days of gaze-only input to wand-style controllers and fully articulated hand tracking – so too are the virtual user interfaces we interact with. Even examples of hand-based, wearable UIs and dynamic deployable UIs. Concept: A Playset, Not A Control Board.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Some examples of this category of glasses: Intel Vaunt (project abandoned); North Focals; Vuzix Blade; Snap Spectacles v2 (they are just cameras to share videos); Bose AR glasses (these are not for visual, but for audio augmented reality). Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In the real world, we never think twice about using our hands to control objects. For example, pushing an on/off button in virtual reality.). For example, pinching the corners of an object and stretching it out. For example, pointing at oneself when referring to another person would feel strange.).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Through input events, the user may configure apps to receive inputs from a number of input sources — 6 degrees of free (6DoF) controllers, articulated hands, and voice, as well as Select or Menu, features, and correlate them with various inputs.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 2, 2017

With my left motion controller (in this case Oculus Touch) I can change the tools in my hand to suit a variety of different needs. For example, I can use two hands to pull through the air, creating surfaces with curves in them, making it easy to create a bend in the front of a shoe, for example.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

If you imagine shuffling the soundtracks in these three examples, you can understand how it would fundamentally change the experience. Blocks , for example, is designed with a wide range of sounds – from the high and low electronic notes that signal the block creation interactions, to the echoes of blocks bashing against the floor.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? According to a guy on Twitter that answered my post, Ultraleap should launch a new tracking controller this year.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 20, 2018

At Leap Motion, we’re always looking to advance our interactions in ways that push our hardware and software. Click To Tweet With this demo, we have the magic of Leap Motion hand tracking combined with a handheld paddle controller. That’s right – table tennis. As we augment our reality, we augment ourselves.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 29, 2015

Luckily, it’s a classic example of affordance. This is a really simple example, but a powerful one – because affordances are everywhere, and they control your life. In the real world, we never think twice about using our hands to control objects. Leap Motion VR Design Best Practices. Bridge the gap!

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2018

There’s a lot that can be said about the Magic Leap One. It’s trying to do a ton—eye-tracking, hand-tracking, 6DoF controllers, real-time meshing and a number of other features that haven’t been seen in a mobile MR device before. The Magic Leap One consists of three elements: a light-pack, a headset and a controller?—?all

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Leapmotion

APRIL 13, 2015

As an optical motion tracking platform , the Leap Motion Controller is fundamentally different from handheld controllers in many ways. Here are 4 tips to designing for the controller’s unique strengths, while avoiding common pitfalls. For example, grabbing is a distinct action that can signal intent.)

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Leapmotion

APRIL 30, 2015

While the Leap Motion Controller can track more than 2 feet away, the “sweet spot” for tracking is roughly 1 foot from the device. For example, the Oculus Rift DK2 recommends a minimum range of 75 cm. Leap Motion VR Design Best Practices. Leap Motion VR Design Best Practices. Further Reading.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I’m Bastien Bourineau, project manager and lead developer at OpenSpace3D, and I’m back to introduce the new OpenSpace3D release with improved Leap Motion support – including how we got around the perennial indexing issue. Another example would be playing piano with notes corresponding to the fingers. Hello again!

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Leapmotion

MARCH 2, 2016

Then we significantly refactored the final step of our pipeline, our Unity hand control classes. This was driven by what we’ve learned from several years of developing with Leap Motion hands and an eye towards both performance and workflow. This new class allows developers more freedom in how you build Leap Motion hand models.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It seems that Mark is still working on that vision, so that in the end, Facebook will be able to do on its devices whatever it wants, without compromises and without control. A company of this kind, with full control and no restrictions, could do great things on the tech side, but very bad things on the privacy side.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 29, 2015

Players can pilot the ship with their head using the Oculus Rift DK2, while freeing up his or her hands to control the weapon system. It’s available free for Windows on the Leap Motion App Store. After developing for Leap Motion and VR with Unity, do you have any cautionary tales from the trenches?

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2016

But before the dinosaur apocalypse, there was A Vox Eclipse – a desktop game that lets you design block creations by combining hand gestures with traditional button controls. “A few friends and I spent the next day or so kicking around ideas that focused on some of the bigger points made during Leap Motion’s presentation.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

An example of the Windows Holographic user interface. If you want to take VR into another room, for example, you have to find places for the sensors again. Voice input is something Microsoft can do , but hand-tracking is a separate and enormously difficult problem despite companies like Leap Motion working hard at it.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

There was the cube, but no matter how I moved my hands in front of the headset, I could only see my controllers. the ones from Leap Motion). on all axes. It is because you have to activate hands tracking before using your hands tracked app. You can follow this tutorial of mine to understand how to do that. on all axes.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

Using the weather and fire packs, Fnordcorps from Spectacular-Ocular.com has been working on integrating different particle effects into Leap Motion hand controls. It’s an incredible example of how you can optimize for 90-frames-per-second VR, and the whole project is free for download, including its content library.

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VRGuy

APRIL 25, 2015

Examples of such peripherals could be head trackers, hand and finger sensors (like Leap Motion and SoftKinetic), gesture control devices (such as the Myo armband and the Nod ring), cameras, eye trackers and many others. Provide optimized connectors to popular engines such as Unity and Unreal.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Hand Viewer , a brand-new release in our Examples Gallery , gives you an arsenal of onscreen hands to experiment with as you build new desktop experiences with Leap Motion. At 4:25, you can see the Controller Sandbox in Unity’s Hierarchy view. It makes the user feel invested. Plus, it’s half the fun. DOWNLOAD NOW ».

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

In this post, we take a look at 4 ways that sound, VR, and motion controls can be a powerful combination. Weightless and Hollow , for example, both include tracks that influence how we experience them. First-time Leap Motion users often master interactions faster when they are guided to stay within optimal tracking range.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Let me explain this better with an example: if you grab a bottle in real life, your fingers can’t trespass the bottle, because the material of the bottle exerts a force towards your fingers which prevents them to enter. It has been made in plastic so that to be more affordable for companies that want to buy it.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Whatever platform you’re building on, it’s important to know that designing for motion control involves a whole new way of thinking about interactions. Here are some key resources that will help you build compelling experiences that feel natural: Introduction to Motion Control. VR Best Practices Guidelines.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

For example, we launched without a trailer , and with a very basic cover for the bundle, just 12 thumbnails all together. Well, it certainly is a nice technical change , and for example, it has immediately made updating the version our beta testers play much easier! Playing around with the Leap Motion interaction system.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, this article helps you learn these: How to setup hand-tracking in Unity The different uses for hand tracking in your VR projects A quick guide to hand-tracking design for AR/VR with the Oculus Quest When you should use controllers or hands When and how to use levers Other interesting facts about hand-tracking.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

I only tried the hand tracking briefly and haven’t tried a comparable sculpting demo with Leap Motion, but Intel’s controller-less VR hand tracking showed some of the smallest movements of my finger resulting in notable change in the shape of the tube. with precision. Tracking and Performance .

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 27, 2016

Interacting with Leap Motion. I chose to work with optical hand tracking using the Leap Motion Controller in order to perform gestures that were natural to our culture. For example, the red panda spends his time eating ramen or the otter is getting ready to jam with his clam guitar.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Controller Position and Rotation. 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. From there, a further offset in Z space is necessary, to compensate for the fact that the controller is mounted on the outside of the headset.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

External tracking devices, cameras, and advanced controllers allow for high-end experiences and get the most out of what’s currently possible in VR. Motion Controller. Vive Controller. Gear VR Controller. Daydream Controller. Motion Controller. Vive Controller. Motion Controller.

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