The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. In any case, it’s interesting to see an endorsement to the Apple headset from the guy the started the new virtual reality renaissance.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. Then there are the problems that are inherent to all hands-tracking solutions like Leap Motion : no haptic feedback, virtual hands that trespass objects they are interacting with, and such. I left one of the biggest news as the last of this article.

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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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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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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2018

Arranging or assembling virtual objects is a common scenario across a range of experiences, particularly in education, enterprise, and industrial training—not to mention tabletop and real-time strategy gaming. Guest Article by Barrett Fox & Martin Schubert. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 8, 2016

Guest Article by Yuval Boger. Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. An avalanche of new virtual reality devices has arrived. We see headsets, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs, and body suits. Yuval is CEO of Sensics and co-founder of OSVR.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

This represents the current status of the technology, that is evolving, but has still not reached the inflection point to become mainstream (as I have already told you in my 2019 predictions about augmented and virtual reality ). More on this news on Road To VR: article 1 , article 2 ). Before thinking about VR 2.0,

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

From gaming to big data, virtual reality gives us the chance to build and explore whole new worlds beyond the screen. Maintain a comfortable distance between the viewer and layered virtual objects. Noise has a cool article to help get you started. If you’re unfamiliar with user flows, Signal v.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”.

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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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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. We got things started by downloading the most popular Oculus Rift / Leap Motion demos and giving them a try.

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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. When we bring our hands into a virtual space, we also bring a lifetime’s worth of physical biases with us. An abridged version of this article was originally published on UploadVR.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In fact, I’m a bit surprised it took this long, but researchers at Virginia Tech have put their brains to good use and come up with a way for ordinary mortals to replicate the telekinetic powers of a Jedi in Virtual Reality. This article originally was published on VRScout. But now it feels really cool.”. No kidding.

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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2018

Today we’re excited to share the second half of our design exploration along with a downloadable demo on the Leap Motion Gallery. 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.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Intel demonstrates “Merged Reality” wireless VR headset, Project Alloy. Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Intel demonstrates “Merged Reality” wireless VR headset, Project Alloy. Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking.

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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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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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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. 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.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3. Augmented reality (AR) is the future of Restaurant Menu? 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.

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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! Virtual reality is a master of the new generation of information technology and is recognized as the next slogan of the information industry.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

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). More info (Road To VR article) More info (Upload VR article) More info (Karl Guttag’s article). Sony creates an AR headset for LBVR. New Rumors on Half Life VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Another week has just passed by and it was a cool one with many news and articles to talk about! Thanks to BCI, we could have a virtual reality that goes beyond physical reality. UltraLeap (formerly known as Leap Motion) has just launched the 5th iteration of its hands-tracking runtime, called Gemini.

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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 ). The mystery of Virtual Reality support on Xbox continues with a new chapter of the saga.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

More info in the article below. Facebook Connect is coming September, 16th Oculus de facto rebranded as Facebook Reality Labs. 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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). Leap Motion) on the same headset. I liked it a lot.

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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? The photos.

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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. I’ve recently tried the Varjo XR-3 (and I will write a short article about my experience soon) and I can confirm that whatever Varjo creates is carefully polished, so I’m sure the same will hold for this device.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Most high-end virtual reality headsets today use what’s called outside-in positional tracking. This take on AR is what Oculus’ chief scientist, Michael Abrash called “ Augmented Virtual Reality. No money was exchanged between either company for this article. .

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2019

Yesterday was an amazing day for virtual reality , with the launch of probably the best standalone VR headset for consumers , the reveal of probably the best headset for developers, the announcement of new possibilities for enterprise customers, and… also yeah, there was something about the Rift S, but no one cares about it!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Before starting, let’s make a recap of the previous article: what is SenseGlove? Theoretically, the SenseGlove can be used outside VR, but practically speaking it is inside the virtual reality that it shines , because it is able to give more realism to your VR experiences by offering more realistic touch sensations.

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