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Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through

Road to VR

According to a report from Business Insider , earlier this year Apple was on the verge of acquiring Leap Motion, but the deal fell through days before it was expected to close. According to the report, this is the second time in some six years that Apple had conversations with the company about an acquisition.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.15): Google confirms headset with Samsung, Ultraleap teases a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? More info (Ultraleap teasing a new device) More info (Maybe a new sensor is coming) Has Palmer Luckey tried the Apple headset?

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VR Bungee Jumping, Samurai Swords, and 16 More New Demos

Leapmotion

Today in the last of our 3D Jam spotlight series, check out these VR demos that take you to the edge and leave you breathless. Dive into a virtual shopping spree in this fast-paced demo from Petricore. There’s no shortage of creative developers with awesome ideas for using the Leap Motion. Alien Planet. Bad Dreams.

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Tomorrow's Tech Today: Takeaways From Augmented World Expo 2019

Charlie Fink

It featured over 350 speakers, and over 250 exhibitors in 100,000-square-feet expo, including a 20,000-square-feet “Playground,” which featured AR and VR experiences from developers like Chicken Waffle and novel demos from manufacturers like RealMax.

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 1: Cave, zSpace, Brogent hands-on

The Ghost Howls

I also tried a demo that employed Taiwanese gloves and scent emission hardware. The company showcasing it was OReady and the demo was a marketing experience for a whiskey brand. Even worse, it wasn’t able to track my finger movements well (it was worse than Leap Motion … and Leap Motion doesn’t have worn sensors!).

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.22): Sony reveals PSVR2 controllers, FRL shows the wristband of the future, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Ctrl+Labs already demoed it years ago: check out the link to the Dino Game that I added below this paragraph. More info (FRL Official blog post) More info (Road To VR reporting and commenting the news) More info (Ctrl+Labs’s Dino Game Early Demo) More info (ETH’s experimental wristband).

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AWE 2023 Day 3: Ultraleap new sensor, LetinAR, and the end of the event

The Ghost Howls

On the last day, I tried many interesting technologies, but I selected two for this summary, which are the first two that I’ve tried: the new Leap Motion Controller by Ultraleap and the AR technology by LetinAR. The demo here was just about using gestures to make an engine 3D model to be exploded into its component.