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Redesigning Our Unity Core Assets: New Workflow and Architecture for Orion

Leapmotion

We started with a brand new LeapC client architecture for streamlined data throughput from the Leap service into Unity. This was driven by what we’ve learned from several years of developing with Leap Motion hands and an eye towards both performance and workflow. How the New Unity Architecture Works.

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What Makes a Spoon a Spoon? Form and Function in VR Industrial Design

Leapmotion

Martin Schubert is a VR Developer/Designer at Leap Motion and the creator of Weightless and Geometric. In architecture school, we had many long discussions about things most non-designers probably never give much thought to. Leap Motion’s Interaction Engine allows human hands to grab virtual objects like physical objects.

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Open Source Augmented Reality?

VRGuy

Examples of such peripherals could be head trackers, hand and finger sensors (like Leap Motion and SoftKinetic), gesture control devices (such as the Myo armband and the Nod ring), cameras, eye trackers and many others. Next time you think about our AR software architecture, think OSVR.

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Building Graffiti 3D: A Journey through Space and Design

Leapmotion

So I switched to the Leap Motion Controller and quickly got my hands in my application. The new Arm HUD Widget by Leap Motion looked good, but I knew it wouldn’t be released for some time. For example, I released an “update” early on that horribly crippled the framerate of the application.

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Welcome to CadaVR: A Living Cadaver Laboratory on the Web

Leapmotion

Get the project on the Leap Motion Developer Gallery ! You can find them on GitHub here and here , along with several examples. For example, we used line-of-sight and length-of-gaze to simulate clicking things that were out of reach, and supported a rotation gesture to simulate rotating. Interaction Design.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month. It is tricky to categorize the many overlapping innovators in this space.

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Shaping the Digital World with Our Hands, with Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian

XR for Business Podcast

What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that.