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Leap Motion Grabs $50M Investment for Class-leading Hand-tracking Tech

Road to VR

Leap Motion, a veteran player in the virtual reality sector (having been founded two years ahead of Oculus), has announced the closure of a Series C investment round totaling $50 million. However, one place in VR still seems like a potential sweet spot for Leap Motion’s hand-tracking tech: mobile.

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New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 12/26/16

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

This is a spin-off of the Primal Carnage series, which has been offering dinosaur-fighting survival games since 2012. This one lets you try out Leap Motion controls as well as the usual position-tracked and gamepad options. Primal Carnage: Onslaught, from Pub Games. Price: $20.99 (Rift, currently discounted).

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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. The sensors read all the brainwave data, and at the moment this data is abstracted to just give you an index of a selection. Hands-on with the demos.