The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

And I hope this article will help in triggering a dialogue among all the parties involved (I will share it with both XRSI people and people from headset manufacturers and see what happens), because in my opinion it is crucial that we speak about this topic.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional Leap Motion v1 controller + Leap Motion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for Leap Motion. Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2018

However, the team at Leap Motion has also investigated more exotic and exciting interface paradigms from arm HUDs and digital wearables, to deployable widgets containing buttons, sliders, and even 3D trackballs and color pickers. Guest Article by Barrett Fox & Martin Schubert.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

I’ve written a dedicated news roundup article dedicated to Google I/O today, so I won’t go deep into details here and I invite you to read that post (linked here below) if you want to have the details about the news. During the keynote, CEO Sundar Pichai and his collaborators announced interesting features both for AR and VR. I’m speechless.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 11, 2017

This week on ResearchVR we dig deep into Leap Motion with Alex Colgan , lead writer at the startup. Then we move on to our guest, the person with the overview of what Leap Motion is cooking up, their experience, and best practices to date. This week’s episode is a little unusual. Episode Preview.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2018

Guest Article by Barrett Fox & Martin Schubert. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Martin is Lead Virtual Reality Designer and Evangelist for Leap Motion. Barrett and Martin are part of the elite Leap Motion team presenting substantive work in VR/AR UX in innovative and engaging ways.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

When the Leap Motion Controller is mounted on a VR headset, it can see beyond your virtual field of view, but your hands will occasionally fall out of sensor range. The open-sourced Leap Motion VR Intro uses interactions designed to work seamlessly when your hands are in view – from flying in space to playing with floating spheres.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Click To Tweet When someone first puts on a Leap Motion-enabled VR headset, it often seems like they’re rediscovering how to use their own hands. An abridged version of this article was originally published on UploadVR. From Flat Screens to VR Interfaces. In a sense, they are.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 9, 2017

Just before tuning in to the Apple WWDC2017 Keynote on Monday, I had a meeting with Jayse Hansen , master of the Fictional User Interface (FUI), Hologram and HUD design for film franchises like Star Wars, Iron Man, and The Hunger Games, and Alex Colgan , Leap Motion ’s digital content and community lead. Read more here.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So, while reading this article, imagine that everything is actually a bit better on the final device I really thank Varjo people for letting me try this unit of the XR-4 with such a little notice: Helsinki is not exactly close to my home, so they were incredibly kind to do everything they could to give a decent demo of the XR-4 to me.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 25, 2023

At AWE, Digilens announced many partnerships around these glasses: one I’ve already mentioned to you in a previous article is the one with Ultraleap: it will be possible to connect the new Leap Motion Controller to the Digilens Argo to add hand-tracking functionalities to it.

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2017

Bandai Namco’s ‘ Project i Can ‘ has made the Anywhere Door a (virtual) reality using the HTC Vive, Leap Motion, and a few simple props tracked with attached Vive controllers. The result is a compelling experience that turns the ordinary into the extraordinary.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2020

Before starting… Let me write a little caveat: this is a first-impression article written after having tried the Varjo VR-2 for some minutes , and can’t represent a full review on the device, that would require testing it for at least some hours. Reading 1000 articles about it can’t prepare you to this experience.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

More info (News on VentureBeat) More info (News on Road To VR) More info (Article by Robert Scoble with its point of view) More info (Article by Fink & Mikenseer with their point of view). In all of this, someone has created the design for a Leap Motion mount for the Index that exploits the frunk. Other relevant news.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking. This article originally was published on VRScout. “We wanted to try and do this without any device, just using your hands, and also do it with gestures in a way that’s more playful,” said Doug Bowman, the Frank J.

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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. This article was written by Rob “RoblemVR” Crasco @ roblemVR. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained. For more info check about.me/roblemvr.

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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. This article was written by Rob “RoblemVR” Crasco. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained. For more info check about.me/roblemvr.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. It now supports Oculus Quest, HTC Vive and UltraLeap (former Leap Motion) systems of skeletal hand tracking for interactions based on realistic, and customizable, hand poses. You can port your application in 2 clicks between several different XR platforms. The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Markers can be used to define where to show virtual elements, and in the demo that I tried were used to show virtual Chinese artworks in a room; Leap Motion device on Realmax glasses. RealMax can mount a Leap Motion device, so you have the power of using naturally your hands to interact with AR elements. I liked it a lot.

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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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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

JUNE 21, 2018

It is still not perfect ( Leap Motion is still more accurate), but surely it is a step forward from the Oculus Touch. SteamVR Skeletal input will abstract the actual controller used by the player (Oculus Touch, Knuckles, Leap Motion, etc…), giving the developer the best pose of the hand detectable with the actually used sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

As I will underline at the end of the article, this is the last patent that is publicly available for the Santa Cruz, so this does not mean that this will be the final design of the headset , since other ones may still be undisclosed. So, take this article with a grain of salt. attaching Leap Motion through an adapter).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

However, we did notice more motion-to-photon latency than any of the consumer headsets, but we were told that that’s to be expected for using combining 3rd party components to create a proof-of-concept device. No money was exchanged between either company for this article. . Linq’s system for hand tracking is also unique.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

VRgineers’ first product was the VRHero 5K Plus before its successor arrived in 2018, offering improved visuals, greater field of view (FoV), automatic IPD adjustment (AutoEye) and integrated hand tracking thanks to built-in Leap Motion technology.

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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. Both the VR-2 and the VR-2 Pro include support for SteamVR content as well as support for the OpenVR development platform.

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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. Lucas Rizzotto.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Header image by Leap Motion). If you want to know more about the predictions of Gartner on these technologies, you can buy the full report on Gartner website. There, you will find all the details on the reasonings that lead Gartner to design the hype cycle for this year).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

You can find the scripts needed in the project in the PasteBin snippets below in this article, or in the description of the video. the ones from Leap Motion). If you want to support my work in creating high-quality articles on AR/VR, please subscribe to my newsletter and donate to my Patreon account ! Prerequisites.

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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

So, I’m writing this short article to answer this question once for all. The epic Noah Zerkin (the guy making the Leap Motion North Star headsets) at our booth to try the game! After I have published all these posts about the WCVRI event in Nanchang (e.g. Was it worth for us going to WCVRI? In the end, yes.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The most natural way to touch and control VR experiences is direct with your hands, and there are companies such as Leap Motion which have been working in this space.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Before starting, let’s make a recap of the previous article: what is SenseGlove? The finger tracking can be improved and it is worse than the one of Leap Motion, also because every finger has not all its DOF tracked. Have fun watching this review video. What is SenseGlove? you can feel when a drilling machine is on).

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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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