The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
You can finally buy the Leap Motion v2 accessory. The time for us XR developers to buy a Leap Motion 2 has finally come. Leap Motion 1 has been used by almost every developer and researcher , both in VR and not. Yes, the price is higher than the cheap Leap Motion 1, but this is also a far better device.
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 4, 2023
Because if Apple is just going to repeat the same use cases of the HTC Vive and Meta Quest 2, but selling it at $3000, it is just going to fail spectacularly. More info Discover a Reconfigurable Mobile Head-Mounted Display This is the weirdest research project I’ve seen this week (thanks Ivan Aguilar for the tip). For what purpose?
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Road to VR
JUNE 15, 2016
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. The glove uses small vibrating motors at the tips of each finger to give the feeling that you are touching objects in the virtual world.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 21, 2021
It seems cool, but I would like to try it to believe in it: all the times that someone promised me some kind of sensory magic, it never turned out so good as they told me (like with the phantom touch sensation that Leap Motion told me about ). Vive Facial Tracker works also with non-HTC headsets. News worth a mention.
Leapmotion
JUNE 14, 2018
That application became Cat Explorer , which you can download now for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Productivity interactions tend to happen at the tips of our fingers – where there’s enough dexterity for small movements to be precise and expressive, while staying energy-efficient over longer periods of time.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre. HTC, one of the most important companies in the VR landscape, has now a new boss: Yves Maitre. It has bought the hand-tracking company Leap Motion various months ago for $30M since the two hardware are a perfect fit the one for the other. Its peculiarity? smartglasses).
Peter Graham
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Retailing for nearly £5,000 GBP (more than Magic Leap One or an HTC Vive Pro Eye) Manus Prime Haptic offers full finger tracking thanks to Flexpoint’s Bend Sensors as well as individual haptics for each finger and thumb. At £5k you’re not going to be adding them to your HTC Vive kit just yet.
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