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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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The 2016 Proto Awards: See Who Took Home VR’s Biggest Honors

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Blocks – Leap Motion. Kiya – Emblematic Group. Rec Room – Against Gravity. Fantastic Contraption – Northway Games & Radial Games (Winner) . Most Innovative: Pixel Ripped 1989 – Pixel Ripped Inc. Tilt Brush – Google (Winner) . VR Noir: A Day Before the Night – StartVR. The Lab – Valve. Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories.

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2016’s Proto Award Winners Revealed, Tilt Brush Receives Top Honour

Road to VR

Blocks – Leap Motion. Kiya – Emblematic Group. SEE ALSO Hands On: The Martian VR Experience is a Triumph in Motion. The post 2016’s Proto Award Winners Revealed, Tilt Brush Receives Top Honour appeared first on Road to VR. SEE ALSO Open-world Building and Minimalist Game Design with Fantastic Contraption.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

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Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

There are also the underlying depth mapping systems such as Intel RealSense, Microsoft Kinect, Leap Motion, Occipital, Apple TrueDepth (with related acquisitions like PrimeSense and LinX), Nimble VR (acquired by Facebook), and Apple’s predicted move into ultra-wideband spatial sensing with the U1 chip announced as part of the iPhone 11 launch.

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Beyond Flatland: User Interface Design for VR

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In 2016, active and passive states in the OS are communicated entirely through color states – no more drop shadows. Depending on the nature of the interface, the first object of a group to be touched can momentarily lock out all others. The post Beyond Flatland: User Interface Design for VR appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

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Founded in 2016, VeeR is a leading VR entertainment platform available worldwide, across all major VR headsets? She is one of the co-founders of the Women in VR meet up group, an XR journalist for two and half years, and has worked on creating, developing, and using immersive technologies for various companies and brands. 3- Ayden Ye.