Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

Back in 2016, Oculus’s chief scientist Michael Abrash predicted that within five years, VR headsets would have a monocular 4K resolution and 140-degree FoV. Pimax over-delivered at CES 2019 with its Leap Motion bundle featuring 8K VR headset with built-in speakers, 200° FOV and optional eye tracking Click To Tweet.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Oculus Touch controllers were just announced to ship late in 2016. From left to right: LEAP Motion motion tracking, flex sensor based motion tracking, exotendon based motion tracking. Leap Motion hand tracking sensor. LEAP Motion. But within the past two years much has changed.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Thankfully, the team at Leap Motion have been working tirelessly to deliver hand tracking and late last year launched their much more compact hand tracking solution specifically aimed at mobile form factors. This system is essentially an upgrade over the Snapdragon 820 developer kit that Qualcomm launched at IFA 2016.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 23, 2016

Using the Leap Motion Controller and Oculus Rift, you’ll be able to throw spells with varying force and speed to battle the unknown evils ahead. A full bodied experience – Loop uses a Leap Motion Controller, Oculus Rift, and a treadmill. What’s been your favorite new experience of 2016?

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

I had chance to catch up with Bruce Wooden (aka “Cymatic Bruce” ) at SVVR 2016 to talk about what types of events they’ve been holding, what types of emergent social behaviors he’s seeing, and how they’ve been teaching VR etiquette within their welcome spaces for new users. Get a front row seat here: https://t.co/YuRZnfJQUe

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

At E3 2016 I got to see the latest prototype version of Gloveone, a haptic motion input glove designed for virtual reality. But that first version of the glove required a third-party tracking system like Leap Motion in order to translate the movement of the user’s hands into virtual reality.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 4, 2016

Leap Motion already offers a mount for its outward-facing hand tracking sensor that hooks up to the headset over USB. pic.twitter.com/V3cMY0GBFu — Dimitri Diakopoulos (@ddiakopoulos) August 3, 2016 We reached out to Intel Prototyping Engineer Dimitri Diakopoulos on Twitter to find out as much as we could.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

I had a chance to catch up with the lead designer of Manus VR , Stijn Stumpel , at GDC where we compared Manus VR to Leap Motion, talked about how the flex sensors work, the use cases where having tracked hands makes sense, their extremely polished demo called Pillow’s Willow, and where they’re going in the future.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

Once it arrives, the new official Leap Motion UE4 plugin should work with it right away. Do Leap Motion demos work with the 1.3 Updated April 5, 2016). On the DK2, the Leap Motion Controller covered three LEDs in the center of the faceplate, and it didn’t affect Constellation tracking in the slightest.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 30, 2016

Since we’re giving away five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credits as part of our 2016 developer survey , we thought we’d share some more cool stuff you can buy with cold hard virtual cash. Recently updated for Orion, Custom Pointer lets you turn any Transform or Leap Motion finger into a pointer that can interact with the UI.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 28, 2016

Based on community ratings and scores from the Leap Motion team, we’re excited to present the winners of the second annual 3D Jam. Our international 3D Jam Tour swept us to more than 20 cities in 6 countries – and with exciting updates in store for 2016, we can’t wait to see you all again! appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 6, 2016

All you need to enter is a VR headset, Leap Motion Controller, and AltspaceVR user account. For the final round, we’re excited to announce our judges: David Holz , CTO of Leap Motion. Hand tracking (via Leap Motion) and positional head tracking (via the Oculus Rift DK2/CV1 or HTC Vive) is required.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

April 2016. March 2016. October 2016. November 2016. April 2016. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. It comes packed with a pair of motion-tracking controllers and two room-scale sensors. March 2016.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2016

She shot a video of of her co-worker in VR trying out the latest Leap Motion Orion update, and tweeted it out saying “This is the future.” — Eva (@downtohoerth) February 19, 2016. — Nicolas Debock (@ndebock) February 21, 2016. ” She says , “Today, we are literally this guy.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest. Mobile VR – iOS and Android.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! Using the weather and fire packs, Fnordcorps from Spectacular-Ocular.com has been working on integrating different particle effects into Leap Motion hand controls.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." You know, that film came out in 2016," he said. "I I started making it in 2013.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of our favorite games at CES was Spot the Leap Motion Controller. Leap Motion #VR technology is everywhere at #CES2017. — Rachel Sibley (@sibleyspeaks) December 28, 2016. — Rachel Sibley (@sibleyspeaks) December 29, 2016. — Rachel Sibley (@sibleyspeaks) December 24, 2016.

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Road to VR

MARCH 10, 2017

Qualcomm has debuted an updated version of their VR Headset Reference Design now with Leap Motion’s new 180-degree hand-tracking to bring gesture control to mobile VR headsets. The new headset and Leap Motion tracking module was shown off during last week’s GDC 2017.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

April 2016. March 2016. October 2016. November 2016. April 2016. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. It comes packed with a pair of motion-tracking controllers and two room-scale sensors. March 2016.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2018

Magic Leap One’s display is great, but a bit less crisp and legible than 2016’s HoloLens. Hand-tracking is also here, but it can feel pretty limited if you’ve played with other superior forms of tracking like the Leap Motion. Bring on the #MagicLeapOne parties! BoostVC pic.twitter.com/LrOBorUQ5q.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 16, 2016

Let us know in our 2016 developer survey and get the chance to win one of five $100 Unreal/Unity asset credits ( full details ). The post 6 Pinchy Projects: Sword Art Online, Planetary Genesis, 3D Art and More appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. What’s your favorite pinch project – and what new resources would you like to see?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. The headset used sensors to detect my fingers, using software from Leap Motion. We saw 40 percent more VR startups created in 2016, but the headsets that debuted during the year only generated about 6.3 Image Credit: Dean Takahashi.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 10, 2016

This is the philosophy behind the Leap Motion Interaction Engine , which is built to handle low-level physics interactions and make them feel familiar. The post Designing Physical Interactions for Objects That Don’t Exist appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. See also Fast Co.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The other side of the belt clip is connected to the headset itself, there is an extra USB port on the belt clip, this is probably for devices such as a Leap Motion. Een video die is geplaatst door Robbert Brus (@vrbites) op 27 Sep 2016 om 5:25 PDT. Een foto die is geplaatst door Robbert Brus (@vrbites) op 1 Okt 2016 om 5:30 PDT.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Before the game’s release in July 2016, the words “augmented reality” probably didn’t mean much to the average consumer. Picking up awards at two industry shows, VR Roulette combined Oculus Rift and Leap Motion controller s to plunge players into a virtually interactive casino.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2016

Release Date: August 1st, 2016. In my perfect world though, I would probably do away with both of them (for the purposes of playing arcade cabinets) and opt for an arcade joystick set-up at the height of one of the cabs so I could really get into it, and have optical tracking like a Leap Motion to track my hand movements.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2016

Coming to Gamescom 2016 right after the recent launch of their IndieGogo campaign , the team is now showing off a near finished version of their hardware in hopes that the burgeoning virtual reality industry will make way for a glove that effectively lets you feel VR.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

IDEALENS plans to partner with the leading human-computer interaction technology company Leap Motion to embed its next generation hand tracking technology in IDEALENS K3-E headset. Released in April 2016, HTC Vive is one of the most premium VR headsets on the market with a relatively high price if $799. HTC Vive ($499).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

It has bought the hand-tracking company Leap Motion various months ago for $30M since the two hardware are a perfect fit the one for the other. A game launch in 2019 is far different than a game launch in 2016. Qualcomm announces Enterprise XR program.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

A new motion capture and animation plugin for Autodesk MotionBuilder 2016, Hand Capture lets you “capture hand and finger movement in real time directly inside MotionBuilder.” Requires: Windows, Autodesk MotionBuilder 2016 ( trial available ). Handful of Tones. ” Requires: Windows, Mac, Linux.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. And then Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion coming together, creating that virtual hand tracking meets virtual manipulation of the air: ultrasonics. And we have something like Beat Saber, which had more than a million downloads.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. And then Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion coming together, creating that virtual hand tracking meets virtual manipulation of the air: ultrasonics. And we have something like Beat Saber, which had more than a million downloads.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. And then Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion coming together, creating that virtual hand tracking meets virtual manipulation of the air: ultrasonics. And that allowed the platforms to just continually expand with new things for consumers to embrace.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2016, active and passive states in the OS are communicated entirely through color states – no more drop shadows. At Leap Motion, we’ve been experimenting internally with a range of different interfaces that are part of the user. The post Beyond Flatland: User Interface Design for VR appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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