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Cal Hacks 2014: Voice-Commanded Virtual Reality and Musical Data

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Leap Motion hacks and mashups, plus lots more photos from a weird, wacky, and wild weekend. (By Team RiftWare’s winning Leap Motion hack lets you leverage the power of the Oculus Rift, Leap Motion, and Android Wear – so you can reach into virtual reality and control it with voice commands. Notetastic!

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Thomas Street’s UI Exploration with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion

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We all grew tired of talking about how we wanted to explore VR development, so we allocated several weeks to tinkering with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion — staffing one full-time developer and a few designers part-time. We got things started by downloading the most popular Oculus Rift / Leap Motion demos and giving them a try.

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Welcome to the 2015 3D Jam!

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1st Prize: $10,000, Unity Suite, 2 OSVR HDKs, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. 2nd Prize: $7,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. 3rd Prize: $5,000, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. 4th Prize: $2,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK. 5th Prize: $1,000, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK. AR/VR Track. Open Track.

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The Essential 3D Jam Development Guide

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A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. Get inspired by the 2014 3D Jam and our Developer Gallery (now with tags for VR , open source , and more). Get started with Unity. Getting Started Checklist.

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

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Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills. There is a lot of irony in this since Google was the creator of Tango, the system for the first tablets featuring a depth sensor already in 2014. Greg Madison is a genius working on AR/VR UX at Unity Labs. Yes, Android, Google. from 2019.

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12 Explosive Sci-Fi Games

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I’ll be honest, this was the first time I’d ever had exposure to the Leap Motion Controller. In 2014, a friend of mine told me I should try a global game jam…. The post 12 Explosive Sci-Fi Games appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. I was a complete novice starting out. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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CAD Experiment: Disassemble a Spherical Robot in VR

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I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. Aside from this, my major work with Leap Motion is my game Robot Chess , a relatively simple game which allows you to use your hands to pick up and move around chess pieces as you play against a robotic AI opponent.