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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

The Ghost Howls

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community.

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All you need to know on HoloLens 2

The Ghost Howls

Microsoft has conducted a study on thousands of people, to design a device that can fit a lot of different heads of different people and that is also able to accommodate glasses. The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. Really kudos to them.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.01): Facebook is very confident in Quest 2 sales, Valve is working on Neural Interfaces, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Intelligent Digital Humans are a new important trend of XR and Abovitz wants to enter there with the big expertise in art and technology that he has developed at Magic Leap. UltraLeap (formerly known as Leap Motion) has just launched the 5th iteration of its hands-tracking runtime, called Gemini.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

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. She studied engineering at Carnegie Mellon University with a focus on machine learning and computer vision.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. And so that’s a case study, I guess, in how things can go the opposite direction at some sort of conventional wisdom. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. And so that’s a case study, I guess, in how things can go the opposite direction at some sort of conventional wisdom. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

And then even Magic Leap, I've heard rumors that they're going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. And so that's a case study, I guess, in how things can go the opposite direction at some sort of conventional wisdom. I don't know about Magic Leap yet. Or is it Oculus Enterprise?