Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Formerly known as Ultrahaptics, Ultraleap was formed after the UK-based haptics company acquired leading hand-tracking company Leap Motion back in 2019. The new name clearly defined the merger’s unique combination of mid-air ultrasonic haptics now underpinned by some of the best hand-tracking tech in the industry.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

Me at VEC 2019. The SDK will support eye-tracked foveation and fixed foveation (like the one of Oculus Go); The Vive Focus will soon have finger tracking : for every hand, you will be able to have something similar to what Leap Motion offers. These has been crazy days. And that’s it for now!

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As an adult, James decided to try retraining his brain using a combination of Leap Motion hand tracking and VR. Leap Motion hand tracking also makes it possible for patients to interact in 3D – enabling them to practice eye-hand coordination skills in a life-like environment. to an average of LogMAR 0.06.

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ARPost

APRIL 4, 2023

AR and VR Content Creation With Integrated Ultraleap Hand Tracking Ultraleap was founded in 2019 when Leap Motion was acquired by Ultrahaptics , and the two companies were rebranded under the new name.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

My early start with MR As you may know, I got started with passthrough mixed reality in 2019, far before Quest enabled the use of passthrough. If you use a Leap Motion controller, you should be able to grab the feed of its cameras according to its docs.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

Pimax unveiled prototypes of intuitive controllers and high-resolution, broad Field of View bundles in Las Vegas this week at CES 2019. 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

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional Leap Motion v1 controller + Leap Motion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for Leap Motion. Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2019

At CES 2019 this week, Pimax is showing off the production versions of their “8K” and “5K” Plus headsets, their upcoming Knuckles-style controllers, as well as hand-tracking and eye-tracking modules. At CES 2019 this week, the company is showing off its latest progress with the headsets and additional components.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A San Francisco-based startup, YUR (pronounced “why you are,”) was founded in early 2019 by Cix Liv and Dilan Shah. SEE ALSO Ultrahaptics Relaunches as 'Ultraleap' After Leap Motion Acquisition. “We YUR, a VR fitness company, today announced it’s secured $1.1

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The new version, which features a wider FOV thanks to a new pair of non-Fresnel lenses, will be making its debut at CES 2019. The most recent hardware revisions brought automatic IPD adjustment, an embedded Leap Motion sensor for wide FOV hand-tracking, and reduced weight and size.

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VRScout

AUGUST 7, 2019

This USB-C input can also be used to connect a variety of compatible controllers, including the Leap Motion tracker, Intel’s Realsense, even a Nintendo Joy-Con. Image Credit: VRScout. Things that the looking glass isn’t really designed for is being a window into another world.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes.

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Leapmotion

JULY 11, 2019

In support of the event, our team donated Leap Motion Controllers. Our CTO David Holz and engineer/ AR tennis champion Jonathon Selstad joined the workshop, along with former Leap Motion engineer Adam Munich. He had experience building homebrew data gloves and mocap systems for years before discovering Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2019

Kuo suggests that Apple will likely begin production on its AR headset sometime between Q4 of 2019 and Q2 of 2020, 9to5Mac reports, citing Kou’s translated statements in Money UDN (Chinese). SEE ALSO Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2019

May 2019 “ From the photo, it is possible to see what we already knew from the leaked photos of some months ago: the headset features two frontal wide-baseline cameras , the sensors for outside-in tracking and a slider for hardware IPD adjustment. This confirms that it will use SteamVR tracking (Image by Ars Technica).

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Moreover, Leap Motion , a device that can be attached to the Vive’s front, has the ability to accurately track your hands with VR applications. VR Accessories Both accessories, the leap motion hand tracker, and the TPCast wireless adapter are available for the Rift, too. Motion Controller. Spring 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

This signs seems to say: 2019 World Conference on NO VR INDUSTRY. One of the AR devices that I wanted to try out since the moment I talked about it on my post about CES 2019 is RealMax. RealMax can mount a Leap Motion device, so you have the power of using naturally your hands to interact with AR elements.

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2019

Promised back in the Kickstarter days, Pimax says that it’s been delayed due to Leap Motion’s acquisition by ULtraHaptics. ” There’s still no word on when the eye-tracking accessory will arrive, although the company did show it off this year at CES 2019 in January.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

This would have happened on May 2019, in the same period when Apple’s senior manager of prototype development Avi Bar-Zeev left the company. After some years of silence, Elon Musk will give us an update of Neuralink on July, 18th 2019. Elon Musk will detail Neuralink soon. Companies are studying foveated rendering for AR glasses.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Additionally, the Varjo VR-2 Pro also comes with integrated Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion) hand tracking technology. Both headsets will be on demonstration at AWE EU 2019 later this week. Both the VR-2 and the VR-2 Pro include support for SteamVR content as well as support for the OpenVR development platform.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Gartner Hype Cycle 2019. Header image by Leap Motion). Some days ago, the new Gartner Hype Cycle has been released and this time, as you can see here below, not only there is no mention of VR, but there are also no references to AR and MR ( Thanks Kevin Williams and Sam Watts for having made me notice that).

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 15, 2019

VRgineers’ first product was the VRHero 5K Plus before its successor arrived in 2018, offering improved visuals, greater field of view (FoV), automatic IPD adjustment (AutoEye) and integrated hand tracking thanks to built-in Leap Motion technology.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Forbes author Charlie Fink has written an amazing round-up of all the LBVR companies and products available on the market after having visited IAAPA 2019. He made various experiments and hacked a Vive Pro with Leap Motion to make interactions more realistic. The status of location-based virtual reality.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2020

spec and demonstrated working bits at SIGGRAPH 2019, so much progress has happened. Hand-tracking company Ultraleap has published an OpenXR preview implementation for its Leap Motion hand-tracking peripheral , and high-end enterprise headset maker Varjo has published an OpenXR preview implementation for its eye-tracking headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Today, at MWC 2019, Alex Kipman went on stage together with Satya Nadella and Julia White to announce the new HoloLens 2. The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. So, let’s see what we know regarding the headset!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

A report on Next Reality highlights how AR mobile apps account for over half of the top 10 most downloaded apps for 2019. I suggest you give it a read. Mobile AR apps are now very popular (maybe). When I read it, I was very happy about it: finally, AR is becoming mainstream!

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2018

Major Tracking Update for Leap Motion. Image courtesy Leap Motion. In typical style, the haphazard trailer gave very little information, but it is targeting an early 2019 release for PS4 and PSVR. PSVR Exclusive Ghost Giant Announced. Image courtesy Zoink.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Moreover, Leap Motion , a device that can be attached to the Vive’s front, has the ability to accurately track your hands with VR applications. VR Accessories Both accessories, the leap motion hand tracker, and the TPCast wireless adapter are available for the Rift, too. Motion Controller. Spring 2019.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

With an embedded Leap Motion hand tracker on the opposite side of the fixed frame, I was able to reach out to the 3D objects and bring them right up to the point where the vergence-accommodation conflict took over and I went a bit cross-eyed trying to resolve the image. Photo by Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Jokes apart, since it is “just” an evolution of first gen, maybe we’ll be able to see some announcement in 2019 and release in 2019-2020. This is fascinating, but there is the problem is that adding weight there, would make the device uncomfortable; It is a slot to add Leap Motion. We’ll see.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2019

link] — Ian Hamilton (@hmltn) April 30, 2019. But we had no mention of Half Life yesterday: Valve just said that it will release a “flagship game” in 2019 and it will be available for all SteamVR headsets. I had one eye on Zuck talking on stage and the other eye on Valve’s website. Nothing more.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

According to UploadVR , citing independent sources, Oculus is targeting a Santa Cruz release date for Q1 2019 but the world will really find out on the 26th and 27th at OC5.For Dominic Brennan from Road to VR estimates that Santa Cruz is using the same 1,440 × 1,600 displays that are also found in the Samsung Odyssey and Vive Pro headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

VR-2 Pro adds an integrated Leap Motion and a 10m cable. Valve said that the game should launch in 2019, but knowing Valve Time, if we are lucky, it will be announced in 2019 and launched in 2020. It also adds compatibility with SteamVR, so you can play Steam games and enterprise applications with Varjo. Image by BBC).

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. If companies raise money now — the end of 2019/2020 — I think it’s the perfect time, because we’re only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. And we can start bringing in all kinds of applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. If companies raise money now — the end of 2019/2020 — I think it’s the perfect time, because we’re only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. And we can start bringing in all kinds of applications.

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