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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

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Colaianni told me, “the outstanding nomination process for the VR Awards 2017 is anything to go by, future years will continue to build upon the astounding work our nominees have been producing.” Leap MotionLeap Motion. Zero Latency. Zero Latency – Zero Latency. G’Audio Lab.

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Report: Apple AR Headset Could Rely on iPhone for Rendering & Connectivity

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SEE ALSO Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through. Kuo doesn’t mention whether this connection will be a wired or wireless at this point, although the latter would require a compelling leap in streaming tech to say the least. Last summer the company unveiled ARKit 2.0

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

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Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion. Not wanting to wait for the future to one day show up, Leap Motion has designed its own prototype AR headset which is made to give developers a development platform which represents the input and output experience that future AR headsets will hopefully one day provide.

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Google’s Standalone Headsets Use Snapdragon 835 VR Platform

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We wrote about the 835 as a processor for phones at CES 2017 back in January. There the company stated that its new processor was designed specifically for VR, boosting areas like visual fidelity and audio while combating other areas like latency. It was also said that the chip could be used for 6 degrees of freedom (6DOF) tracking.

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Top 8 Questions from CES 2017

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This week we hit the CES showfloor in Las Vegas with two missions: share our Mobile VR Platform with the world and play “spot Leap Motion in the wild.”. — LeapMotion (@LeapMotion) January 6, 2017. — LeapMotion (@LeapMotion) January 5, 2017. — LeapMotion (@LeapMotion) January 5, 2017.

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

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Position and Adoption Speed Justification: Similar to AR, aspects of the AR cloud have existed for decades, but the emergence of the AR cloud as a concept has re-emerged as recently as 2017. Header image by Leap Motion). The AR cloud is much more rich and complex than a simple database.

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Qualcomm’s Standalone VR Is Getting Embedded Leap Motion Hand Tracking

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HTC and Valve do this with their Vive controllers that are super low latency and extremely accurate and Oculus does this with their touch controllers and their extremely natural ergonomics. The real improvements are increased performance, power savings and support for Leap Motion.