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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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Moving Virtual Objects Like a Jedi

Tech Trends VR

To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking. The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface.

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VRTK vs INTERACTION BUILDER: Which one is for you?

ARVR

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. It now supports Oculus Quest, HTC Vive and UltraLeap (former Leap Motion) systems of skeletal hand tracking for interactions based on realistic, and customizable, hand poses. You can port your application in 2 clicks between several different XR platforms. The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3.

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NextMind Review: select objects using your brain powers

The Ghost Howls

BCI is one of the big trends of the future, and understanding what they can do and what not is important for many IT professionals; I guess that in the future its runtime could be updated to do more. The Unity SDK for NextMind is just fantastic. Hands-on with the demos. Registering to the events of the NeuroTag (e.g.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.22): Sony reveals PSVR2 controllers, FRL shows the wristband of the future, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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 ). Learn more (XR Collaboration) Learn more (Unity College). Some XR fun.

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OSVR Co-founder on the Future of Open Source Virtual Reality

Road to VR

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. I’d like to describe how I hope to see OSVR develop given past and present industry trends. We see headsets, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs, and body suits. Photo courtesy Denny Unger.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills. More info (Apple iPad Pro featuring LiDAR sensor) More info (New iPad Pro demo applications) More info (New iPad Pro environment reconstruction video) More info (Depth sensors are the new trends for mobile). Another great UX post by Leap Motion.

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