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Ultrahaptics Acquires Leap Motion for a Reported $30M

Road to VR

Leap Motion, the pioneer in optical hand-tracking, has been acquired by Ultrahaptics, the enterprise-focused immersive haptics company. According to the Wall Street Journal , Ultrahaptics reportedly acquired Leap Motion for approximately $30 million. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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AR From an Architect’s Perspective, Spatial Computing, & Leap Motion’s North Star AR HMD

Road to VR

Keiichi Matsuda went from being a dystopian filmmaker to becoming the Vice President of Design at hand-tracking company Leap Motion. Leap Motion recently announced their open source AR HMD reference design called Project North Star , which has a 95° wide by 70° high field of view with 65% stereo overlap & 1,600 × 1,440 per eye.