Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Simple interactivity with the orbs is possible with motion control; the experience will support all major VR hardware, but is likely to feel most engaging when used with the Leap Motion hand tracking system. Disclosure: Rizzotto recently wrote a guest article for Road to VR about the future of AR, VR, AI, and education.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking. While there are no specifics available about the contents of the hardware, let alone price or release date, this sets a new mark for the high end of virtual reality and mixed reality in the future.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking. While there are no specifics available about the contents of the hardware, let alone price or release date, this sets a new mark for the high end of virtual reality and mixed reality in the future.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Thankfully, the team at Leap Motion have been working tirelessly to deliver hand tracking and late last year launched their much more compact hand tracking solution specifically aimed at mobile form factors. The real improvements are increased performance, power savings and support for Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Before starting, let’s make a recap of the previous article: what is SenseGlove? I hoped that the setup of SenseGlove gloves could have been a bit easier , but being a development kit of experimental hardware, it is not strange that it requires some time. As you can see, the hardware setup is not plug and play.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This system makes the headset dependent on static hardware, however, and so top engineers at Oculus , HTC and Google are all racing to crack the inside-out code first. UploadVR had the chance to try an prototype of the Linq at our offices in San Francisco and we found the hardware to an impressive proof-of-concept.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It seems cool, but I would like to try it to believe in it: all the times that someone promised me some kind of sensory magic, it never turned out so good as they told me (like with the phantom touch sensation that Leap Motion told me about ). This week I have read two interesting articles about XR storytelling experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Of course its goal is to give importance to Steam, not to the hardware.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The consumer virtual reality (VR) market is a tough industry to be in, for hardware and software companies alike. There will be a deeper hands-on article later this week but before that VRFocus interviewed VRgineers’ CEO and co-founder Marek Pol?ák.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

In this series of articles, I want to talk about my experience there , giving you some highlights about the hardware I tried, the companies I met, etc… I want to let you feel as if you did this VR travel with me. I think that it’s a great piece of hardware: the 3D effect is solid and the colors are very good.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2018

And although its OS and apps don’t fully utilize the tech available to them, Magic Leap One is an ambitious, well-made, but imperfect MR devkit that doesn’t quite live up to the hype, but is still the most complete and affordable mixed-reality (MR) computer out there. Guest Article by Lucas Rizzotto. Part 1: The Hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2018

This is because Leap Motion has announced its v4 version of the tracking runtime and with it three demos to showcase the new tracking functionalities: Cat Explorer, Particles, and Paint. Cat Explorer is an educational app made to show you all the anatomy of a cat and it obviously employs Leap Motion as the only medium of interaction.

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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. “One of the main goals of SteamVR is to support a diverse ecosystem of hardware and software.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As usual, this article comes with a video version where I show you my hands-on session with Ultraleap Gemini! Ultraleap is the company born from the acquisition of Leap Motion by Ultrahaptics and it has always worked towards offering optimal hands tracking solutions for the XR market. Ultraleap Gemini.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In that article I noted: Microsoft already demonstrated a solid inside-out tracking system with its $3,000 HoloLens, but getting that kind of robust tracking system to work with other kinds of headsets, including wide field of view VR, is the place Bolas might be able to offer assistance. Microsoft, however, may be one step ahead. ”

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

So, I’m writing this short article to answer this question once for all. In fact, there were some games, but most booths were showcasing hardware or enterprise solutions. The epic Noah Zerkin (the guy making the Leap Motion North Star headsets) at our booth to try the game! Was it worth for us going to WCVRI?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

AI reconstruction of how the launch of the Deckard may happen The controllers are an optimized version of Valve Index Controllers , smaller and more reliable, even if I’m told that the headset can also track the hands thanks to an integrated Leap Motion controller.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It is intriguing that many companies are already experimenting with this new chipset, and one of these partners is Niantic, that is thinking about going the AR hardware route after all its hard work on gelocalized AR games like Pokemon Go. He made various experiments and hacked a Vive Pro with Leap Motion to make interactions more realistic.

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Leapmotion

MAY 17, 2015

In the process of building applications and various UX experiments at Leap Motion, we’ve come up with a useful set of heuristics to help us critically evaluate our gesture and interaction designs. The team at Leap Motion is constantly working to improve the accuracy and consistency of our tracking technology.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They are currently offering deals for Black Friday, so if you are reading this article close to when I published it, you can check out their offers here. The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. That said, have a nice read!

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. As Alex of Leap Motion explained me, using carefully studied sounds and visual feedback when the user touches a virtual object, it is possible to create a sense of fake touch, that can make the experience more realistic.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Also, Leap Motion tracking or the mixed reality cameras of Varjo XR-3 are not part of this model. Varjo states that the implementation of foveated rendering is what makes it possible to use this device on consumer-grade hardware like an NVIDIA RTX 3050 with i5 processor. Internal View of the headset (Image by Varjo).

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Leapmotion

MAY 3, 2015

We all grew tired of talking about how we wanted to explore VR development, so we allocated several weeks to tinkering with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion — staffing one full-time developer and a few designers part-time. The goal was to build a cohesive VR interface that plays nicely with both hardware’s current limitations.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Well, in this article I’ll try to summarize all that we know and all the main speculations regarding it. Of course you are, because you know that I will use the word “Half Life” in the article… so keep reading! But what do we know about it? Are you ready to discover everything about this headset?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

On the hardware side, the only thing that you have to do (apart from charging the battery), is attaching the sensor to the headband, and put your headband around your head, making sure that the sensor stays on your nape. And subscribe to my newsletter to not lose my next amazing articles… (Header image by NextMind).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Google will continue to keep the servers up to let existing Daydream users continue using the apps, but there will be no new apps, no new products and no new sales of the hardware. VR-2 Pro adds an integrated Leap Motion and a 10m cable. More info (Article on Road To VR) More info (Article on Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This week I have been pretty busy working on our mixed reality fitness game that is very close to launch and in preparing some amazing articles for next week (I will publish a review of the Valve Index and a super-amazing interview to Jeri Ellsworth, the creator of TiltFive augmented reality glasses!),

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

More info in the article below. It is now just the brand of a hardware product (for now) and nothing more. More info (Neuralink Keynote) More info (Article on TechCrunch) More info (Article on VentureBeat). Ultraleap (previously known also as Leap Motion) has struck a great deal with Qualcomm.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Authors’ opinions are their own. Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

Let’s start with something easy: do you remember my article on how to stream the content of the Focus on an external screen? This hand tracking is very rough, so do not expect a Leap Motion -type interface, but it can be good for some VR applications. Without changing the hardware, the device directly goes to a 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. So we feel -- like you said -- this is software that really needs to be optimized for the hardware that it's working on. And then-- Varag: Especially because every maker has got to print hardware make-up, in a sense. So it'll work across all those types you just said. Varag: Wow.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. So we feel -- like you said -- this is software that really needs to be optimized for the hardware that it's working on. Varag: Especially because every maker has got to print hardware make-up, in a sense. So it'll work across all those types you just said. It's pretty quick.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. So we feel -- like you said -- this is software that really needs to be optimized for the hardware that it's working on. Varag: Especially because every maker has got to print hardware make-up, in a sense. So it'll work across all those types you just said. It's pretty quick.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 25, 2015

These tabs are important – reminding me of tasks I need to do, articles I want to read, and funny videos that I will never get around to watching. In many ways, this has been lost with traditional digital interfaces, as UIs are inevitably shaped and limited by hardware capabilities. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. Let’s start! Oculus Link. Oculus has managed to offer what seemed impossible.

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