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Leap Motion ‘Virtual Wearable’ AR Prototype is a Potent Glimpse at the Future of Your Smartphone

Road to VR

Leap Motion , a maker of hand-tracking software and hardware, has been experimenting with exactly that, and is teasing some very interesting results. Leap Motion has shown lots of cool stuff that can be done with their hand-tracking technology, but most of it is seen through the lens of VR.

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

The Ghost Howls

According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one. It provides a digital legend in the form of a point cloud to annotate (augment) objects and places in the physical world. Header image by Leap Motion).

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We need camera access to unleash the full potential of Mixed Reality

The Ghost Howls

But notwithstanding this, we managed to do a lot of crazy tests , and we dreamt about the moment that powerful standalone headsets supported high-quality mixed reality to bring these tests to the next level. Of course, since I’m not a security expert, I do have not a definitive answer for you.

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Report: Apple to Announce ARKit Updates at WWDC 2019 Including OS Support for AR Headsets

Road to VR

Apple has been continuously iterating on ARKit , its augmented reality development tool that lets creators make smartphone-based AR experiences. SEE ALSO Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through. The company unveiled ARKit at its World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in 2017, and the 2.0

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5 Experiments from Leap Motion’s Internal Hackathon (Including the Augmented Reality Workspace)

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Recently, Leap Motion kicked off one of our internal hackathons, where small teams pitch and develop quick demos over the course of two days. Built using C++/OpenGL, the project uses genuine Windows API calls to bring the interface into augmented reality. Danger: Scooter Warpspeed. Utility: Swipey Joe McDesktop.

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VRTK vs INTERACTION BUILDER: Which one is for you?

ARVR

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. You can port your application in 2 clicks between several different XR platforms.

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Moving Virtual Objects Like a Jedi

Tech Trends VR

. These are definitely the VR powers you’re looking for…. 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. It was only a matter of time.

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