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#BuildYourNorthStar Workshop Brings AR to Life in 48 Hours

Leapmotion

Building the world’s most advanced augmented reality headset isn’t exactly for beginners. But at the world’s first #BuildYourNorthStar workshop, over 20 participants built their own open-source Project North Star headsets in just 48 hours – using components now available to everyone. The workshop was “epic,” says Noah.

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The Importance of Hand Tracking UX Design

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Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. If you’re looking to learn more about AR/VR design or development , check our free XR workshops and courses at Circuit Stream. When to Use Controllers and When to Use Hands.

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Live from Berlin! VR Workshops for Unity & JavaScript

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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. Registrations for the workshops and meetup are still open. Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript.

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6 Principles of Leap Motion Interaction Design

Leapmotion

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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Build-a-Button Workshop: VR Interaction Design from the Ground Up

Leapmotion

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. For Leap Motion and VR, we recommend that a single finger target should be no smaller than 20 mm in real-world size.

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Twist the Gears of a Massive VR Music Engine with Carillon

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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. They came up with these new ways to control sound.

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Newsletter 51 – #WWYL? How Hardware Hacks can Change the World

Leapmotion

To take control of your own hardware integrations, check out Cylon.js to hack an Arduino. We’ve already seen Christmas lights , laser turrets , and vehicles – what would you Leap? Leap Motion at PennApps. We’ll be sharing more about our experiences soon, including some very cool Leap Motion API hacks.