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

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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.” Image courtesy Leap Motion. Updated Tracking. Improved tracking fidelity against complex backgrounds and extreme lighting.

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

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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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Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs. Best Interaction Design: Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs. Blocks – Leap Motion. Best Game: Raw Data – Survios. The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed – Cloudhead Games. The Climb – Crytek. Space Pirate Trainer – I-Illusions (Winner) . Bullet Train – Epic Games. The Lab – Valve.

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10 Projects That Have Us Excited About the Next Generation of VR & AR

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With leading high-end VR headsets debuting in 2016, we’ve had about two years to see what the first-generation VR experience looks like. Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion. Following the launch of the Rift, Oculus kept their R&D efforts on future PC headsets mostly secretive.

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

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Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs. Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs. Blocks – Leap Motion. The post 2016’s Proto Award Winners Revealed, Tilt Brush Receives Top Honour appeared first on Road to VR. The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed – Cloudhead Games. The Climb – Crytek. Bullet Train – Epic Games.

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What is MRTK-Unity? – Mixed Reality ToolKit

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The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. It also provides quick prototyping through in-editor simulation that permits instantaneous viewing of changes. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller.

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‘New Retro Arcade: Neon’ Review

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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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