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New Leap Motion 2 Brings High-end Hand-tracking to Standalone Headsets

Road to VR

10 years after the launch of Leap Motion—which garnered praise for offering some of the best hand-tracking in the industry—the company has announced a next-generation version of the device which now supports standalone XR headsets in addition to Windows and MacOS.

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VR Fitness Startup YUR Secures $1.1M Investment, Releases Calorie-counting Software for Quest

Road to VR

A San Francisco-based startup, YUR (pronounced “why you are,”) was founded in early 2019 by Cix Liv and Dilan Shah. Having launched its pilot program on PC VR earlier this year, YUR is now officially making its software available on Oculus Quest. YUR, a VR fitness company, today announced it’s secured $1.1

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All the best AR and VR news from CES 2019

The Ghost Howls

Last week has been the week of CES 2019 , one of the most important technology exhibition of the year. This represents the current status of the technology, that is evolving, but has still not reached the inflection point to become mainstream (as I have already told you in my 2019 predictions about augmented and virtual reality ).

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Report: Apple to Announce ARKit Updates at WWDC 2019 Including OS Support for AR Headsets

Road to VR

However it’s hardly conceivable that Apple would open their software ecosystem to third-party devices, so it definitely raises the question of whether we’re close to a bonafide Apple AR headset tease or not. SEE ALSO Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through.

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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

The Ghost Howls

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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AR and VR Content Creation Platform Fectar Integrates Ultraleap Hand Tracking

ARPost

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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We need camera access to unleash the full potential of Mixed Reality

The Ghost Howls

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.