Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2021

Ultraleap, the company behind the Leap Motion hand-tracking controller , has released a Developer Preview of its hand-tracking engine Gemini. Antony Vitillo of XR publication Skarred Ghost went hands-on with Gemini using his first-generation Leap Motion tracker.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

Keiichi Matsuda went from being a dystopian filmmaker to becoming the Vice President of Design at hand-tracking company Leap Motion. Leap Motion recently announced their open source AR HMD reference design called Project North Star , which has a 95° wide by 70° high field of view with 65% stereo overlap & 1,600 × 1,440 per eye.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Trendy AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

In the American sin city of Las Vegas, there has been an enormous showcase of every kind of innovative technologies and of course, AR and VR have been part of the show. New Qualcomm reference design. Qualcomm reference design headset plugged into a Snapdragon 855 phone (Image by Road To VR). The launch price is $250.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And as I promised you, I’m sharing with you all my impressions , so you will feel as if you were here with me… Today I will talk with you about the WCVRI event, the RealMax AR glasses and the Droolon F1 eye tracking accessory! Around the event venue, instead, there are many writings about VR, and many references around the tech.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Welcome to my weekly appointment with the best AR VR news! There I am going to talk about some use cases for AR and VR! In the end, it has not been Apple or Facebook, but Snap to make its first move in the AR glasses space. I know that last time we had some technical issues, but this time will be much better, I promise!

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly integrated into future mobile VR headsets.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2018

But there are times when virtual objects will be farther away than arm’s reach, beyond the user’s range of direct manipulation. As part of its interactive design sprints, Leap Motion , creators of the hand-tracking peripheral of the same name, prototyped three ways of effectively interacting with distant objects in VR.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

This week @LeapMotion will be at @CES w/ their next-gen reference design Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet Leap Motion goes mobile. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. You can join us on the showfloor or follow @LeapMotion to experience the future of VR/AR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Another week, another roundup of amazing AR/VR news! but I have found some time anyway to read all the news I found about AR and VR and create this summary just for you! Not reading it would be a pity, so go on…. Facebook may be partnering with Luxottica to create consumer AR glasses. Top news of the week. Image by Ray-Ban).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. As you can see, there is no mention of AR (Image by Gartner).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

All the people that were working on AR/VR inside Facebook now have a new group they belong to: “Facebook Reality Labs”. This was the previous name of the AR/VR research division guided by Abrash, that now gets rebranded as “FRL Research”. References to “Infinite Office” found inside the Oculus Quest runtime. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 25, 2023

I was surprised to discover that it was not a reference design, but a product. The second was a small AR experience made with Vuforia : I could frame a marker and see some 3D objects on it. Anyway, AR glasses are still in their infancy, and for the current status of the tech, this looks like a good devkit.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At WCVRI , I have tried some cool AR/VR hardware. North Star AR headset. Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. Me trying the new version of the North Star AR headset. Up view of the headset.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 6, 2018

At Leap Motion, we envision a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. To explore the boundaries of interactive design in AR, we created Project North Star , which drove us to push beyond the limitations of existing systems. Let’s build it together.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

There it has presented a lot of news regarding all Facebook companies (Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, etc…) and of course, among these pieces of news, we had some AR and VR ones. Under 70 days to go until our biggest F8 to date — where we'll share the biggest AR/VR news from Facebook to date.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s start this week with a bunch of cool news about the past week in AR and VR! The best news of the week has not been the release of a new fantastic VR headset or AR glass, but of a technology that will make a new generation of XR headsets possible: I’m talking about the XR2 chipset by Qualcomm. Goood Monday everyone!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Some days ago, in the Oculus Developer portal, have appeared some surprise banners warning developers about the documentation also regarding an “Oculus Del Mar” headset, for which there are “early developers”. The possibilities are three: Del Mar is the codename of a headset that is a new version of Quest. Yes, Android, Google.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

In particular, it envisions: XR headsets (especially AR ones) being tethered to the smartphone now; XR headsets wirelessly connected to the smartphone (via Wi-fi or similar technologies) in 1–4 years; Fully standalone lightweight XR headsets, connected via 5G, in 5–10 years. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 31, 2019

With new community-created headsets appearing in Tokyo and New York , Project North Star is a compelling glimpse into the future of AR interaction. As you can imagine, this requires a high degree of calibration and alignment, especially in AR. Just as a quick primer: the North Star headset has two screens on either side.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

The summary will be split in two parts: today I’ll tell you about Stereopsia and some nice companies I met there, while tomorrow I’ll describe more the artistic/storytelling side of the event (and I will also talk about the Lenovo AR headset!). How is Stereopsia? Like every event, it has pros and cons. via Gfycat. VR Pianist.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

We don’t know if it is just a reference design for external partners (like HTC) or it is an actual headset that Valve is producing. Valve has now a hardware production plant and it is already manufacturing the Knuckles by itself, but it is not clear if they are able to produce a VR headset at scale.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. Switching Between VR/AR.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 7, 2017

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.”. Here are the 8 most frequently asked questions we’ve heard so far: 1. What is Leap Motion? All three are crucial for hands in VR. Click To Tweet.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

VR, AR and hand tracking are often considered to be futuristic technologies, but they also have the potential to be the easiest to use. This makes the transition from seated to standing experience seamless, but requires environmental references to fade in, making the vertical movement evident and maintaining the orientation.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Next week, we’ll demo our Mobile VR Platform alongside Qualcomm in brand-new reference designs at GDC, VRDC, and MWC in San Francisco and Barcelona. The post Charting the Course for Mobile VR appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. It’s also the latest step towards a single input standard for the next generation of mobile VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

Select it, and in the inspector, change all references from Left Hand to Right Hand (there should be three). the ones from Leap Motion). Open it and substitute every reference to “ButtonTriggerZone” with “ColliderZone” They are on line 43 and 52 at the time of writing. Add the script Cube2.cs

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

You don a Vive Pro headset, equipped with leap-motion sensors for hand tracking, and are also able to communicate with your partner via voice. Each life stage is represented by distinctive styles of movement that are a metaphor for the human journey from beginning to end.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Martin Schubert is a VR Developer/Designer at Leap Motion and the creator of Weightless and Geometric. There are many ways we could handle grabbing a virtual spoon within a VR experience. Leap Motion’s Interaction Engine allows human hands to grab virtual objects like physical objects.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 11, 2017

We're at #CES2017 this week with our #MobileVR reference design! One of our favorite games at CES was Spot the Leap Motion Controller. Leap Motion #VR technology is everywhere at #CES2017. Massive change around the corner with #AI , the #VoiceFirst revolution, physical natural user interfaces, #VR and #AR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Side note that AR will be much bigger than VR, in both the diversity of use cases and market size (analysts predict $30B for VR versus $90B for AR by 2020), but I still believe that most homes will have a dedicated VR space for total immersion. Check out the bottom of this post for a list of VR inspiration. Body movement.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts. 4000 delegates are expected to take part in the conference and over 250k consumers are expected in the expo side of this incredible manifestation. The last two ones are the one that I like the most.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 5, 2015

And whether that world is a space full of physical objects, or a parallel universe of our own creation, the best 3D interfaces are the ones that have the power to become part of the environment. Most of our experience of technology is through screens, or what I refer to as magic pieces of paper.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 15, 2018

Check out our results below or download the example demo from the Leap Motion Gallery. The advanced hand-based physics layer of the Leap Motion Interaction Engine makes the foundational elements of grabbing and releasing virtual objects feel natural. The ScaffoldGridVisual class has references to these handles.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Leap Motion enables new ways of using our devices but we still unconsciously use the mouse and keyboard as a model, missing potentially intuitive solutions,” the team told us. ” Requires: Windows. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

I know you guys are working on some cutting edge stuff, so why don't I not ruin it, and just let you tell us what is Clay AIR? Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. Alan: So I'm going to be able to look at watches on my wrist in AR, right?

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