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Leap Motion Releases Major Tracking Update and New Demos to Show It Off

Road to VR

Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” ” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

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Cloudhead Games CEO: Apple Vision Pro is an AR Headset Wearing VR Clothes

Road to VR

Based in British Columbia and founded in 2012 Cloudhead’s pioneering approach to VR gave rise to broadly adopted movement standards including Snap Turns and Teleportation. Hand-tracking is a logical affordance for AR based spatial computing and no doubt some experiences will work well with that design philosophy.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub. A core mechanic was a player’s conversational choices affecting the overall arc of the story. RICHER ENVIRONMENTS.

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UltraLeap Gemini review: use both hands in VR!

The Ghost Howls

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve made my usual video review of the new UltraLeap Gemini runtime , with some cool in-action shots of me using hands-tracking.

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NextMind Review: select objects using your brain powers

The Ghost Howls

A future runtime could offer more functionalities , a bit like it has happened with Leap Motion that in 2012 was a rough accessory and now is an amazing hands tracking device. Hands-on with the demos. The Unity SDK for NextMind is just fantastic. Registering to the events of the NeuroTag (e.g.