Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

Early last month, Leap Motion kicked off our internal hackathon with a round of pitch sessions. One of our tracking engineers suggested using our prototype Dragonfly module to augment a physical display with virtual widgets. Our team’s video got shared on /r/oculus and led to a feature on Wired. Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

We are all ready to play it, and if you are not, you are still in time to pre-download the game , so that at the X time, you can immediately hit the “Play” button. The one that I link to you here is from a general gaming magazine and it awards HL-A a 9/10 mark. Oculus Del Mar” may be the next Oculus headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

If the report were true, this would mean that Apple doesn’t believe in AR anymore and this would be terrible news for all the immersive realities ecosystem. Apple is clearly committed in augmented reality, and the recent release of ARKit 3 proves that. Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

While there’s certainly a range of exciting games and other VR software coming soon to first-generation hardware, it feels like the market is steadily turning its attention toward next-generation technologies, and fostering a renewed sense of excitement and momentum. Oculus Half Dome Prototype. Leap Motion North Star.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 5, 2016

Leap Motion adds a whole new level of expression to your virtual avatar – so you can point, wave, or dance. UE4 has built-in Vive support, and with the new official plugin release in Unreal Engine 4.11 , it’s easier than ever to get started with Leap Motion + Vive. Have a question about Leap Motion + HTC Vive?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Stay tuned on this blog, because in some days I will publish an EXTRAORDINARY interview related to one of the most awaited VR games of 2021! All the Quest ecosystem is healthy: more than 60 games had revenues beyond 1M dollars , and now the number of reviews on games on Quest have exceeded the ones for Rift. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. This has been a great week for all Oculus Quest users and developers. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-Founder of #Blippar one of the first billion dollar “Augmented Reality” Startup from India, being a pioneer, early mover brings its own pro’s & lots of Con’s. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. 1- Ambarish Mitra. 13- Amitt Mahajan.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

With Pokémon Go recently breaking a financial milestone – reaching one billion USD in revenue , it may finally be time to say that Augmented Reality (AR) is now reaching mainstream acceptance and acknowledgement. Now, it’s worth pointing out that the game is no longer breaking new boundaries. billion to $50.65

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

HTC has also revealed Viveport Infinity, that will be like the Netflix of VR : paying just a monthly fee, the user will be able to play all the games that he/she wants on the Viveport catalog. Together with this, there has also been the announcement of Vive Reality System, that will be the home space of all Vive users.

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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. If you’re going to do a lot of development, you had better use Oculus Link through a USB 3.0 Also, install the Oculus app and the Oculus Hub on your computer.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 31, 2019

See Also: VR Headset Comparison of Vive Cosmos vs. Oculus Rift S. Same goes for gesture control, it is basically used for video game industry only. Project North Star; Source: Leap Motion. There is a big difference between VR-helmets (or AR-glasses) with controllers and ones that can be controlled by hand gestures.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

Back in 2016, Oculus’s chief scientist Michael Abrash predicted that within five years, VR headsets would have a monocular 4K resolution and 140-degree FoV. Pimax over-delivered at CES 2019 with its Leap Motion bundle featuring 8K VR headset with built-in speakers, 200° FOV and optional eye tracking Click To Tweet.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Along with categories that you would expect, such as gaming and entertainment, I was excited to see a category for VR education and training. Something to note, all nominees had to be centered on a virtual reality experience, and not an augmented reality experience. Oculus – Rift. Oculus – Touch.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This means that if you employ 4 for tracking, you can still use two for instance for eye-tracking and one for lips tracking; Be able to finally offer passthrough augmented reality with appropriate resolution and framerate. Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

For years, the company has been delivering some of the most powerful and accessible XR experiences around, with tools like the Oculus Quest. Tools like the Oculus already come with hand tracking functionality, to help users interact with some software on a hands-free basis.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. The main trigger can give adaptive force-feedback, applying a different force on the index finger depending on what is happening in the game.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

I found very interesting that they are trying to create full-body VR content for the Oculus Quest. This startup makes a nice multiplayer full-body VR game called Hide and Freeze VR , described this way: “Players take turns in playing hider or seeker. An Oculus Go with the picture of a painting attached to it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless. What will happen next? Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest. Pikmin Bloom is the latest game by Niantic. Image from Skydance Interactive).

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Leapmotion

APRIL 22, 2014

Experimental headsets are changing how we see the world, either by creating the virtual worlds of our imaginations, like the Oculus Rift, or adding ghostly layers on top of the real world, like Google Glass. At the same time, GetVu wants to bring a new level of control to augmented reality with Leap Motion technology.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

Oculus Go launch. We all knew that Oculus Go would have been launched at F8 and this has been the case. And not only online on Oculus website, but also on Amazon and Best Buy supermarkets : before the conference, lots of people started posting on Reddit the pictures of the Go being already inside Best Buy shopping centers.

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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. The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Check out 11 3D Jam games that reinvent classic puzzle mechanics or unlock new ways to find hidden solutions. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Apartment 202 was was the first ever game I designed from the ground up to incorporate a new hardware device,” says Gear Work CEO Steve Adamson. “I Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I’m Bastien Bourineau, project manager and lead developer at OpenSpace3D, and I’m back to introduce the new OpenSpace3D release with improved Leap Motion support – including how we got around the perennial indexing issue. The post 3D App Design and Easy Finger Indexing with OpenSpace3D appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Oculus Quest gets v29 update. This week Facebook has started rolling out the v29 runtime update for Oculus Quest , and it brings some interesting features like: Multi-user mode on the original Quest 1 A renewed UI of the “toolbar” of the device. Tilt Five is an amazing startup building AR glasses to play tabletop games.

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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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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Leap Motion at PennApps. We’ll be sharing more about our experiences soon, including some very cool Leap Motion API hacks. Compare Metrics + Leap Motion Hackathon. This weekend, join your fellow software developers over a three-day marathon with a focus on discovery, gaming, and design apps.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Last week I told you that most probably I wouldn’t have written a Week Peek this Sunday because I’m very busy showcasing our game at the WCVRI exhibition in Nanchang. But the Daydream project never took off, and its competitor Gear VR, thanks to Oculus money and branding has always performed better. Do you like horror games in VR?

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Leapmotion

MARCH 25, 2014

What if casual gaming could help people suffering from physical injuries recover faster? of Airspace Home and the Leap Motion software. The Leap Motion Software and Airspace Home v1.2 But what if you used casual gaming techniques to make repetitive actions fun? Oculus Rift image courtesy of Oculus VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. I saw that myself when I tried out Qualcomm’s new wireless stand-alone VR headset prototype at the Game Developers Conference a couple of weeks ago. The headset used sensors to detect my fingers, using software from Leap Motion.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. This is my first experience making a game, and I’m happy with how cool it is! Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Leap Commander.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward. Today’s spotlight is a double-feature, as development studio VRARlab have two games in the top 20! Hauhet is a futuristic VR puzzle game, while Paper Plane lets you fly a plane through golden rings.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 16, 2016

Scott Kuehnert ’s Triangulate is an augmented reality art program that lets you fill your space with colorful triangles by pinching them out of the air. Recently updated for Oculus 1.3, The post 6 Pinchy Projects: Sword Art Online, Planetary Genesis, 3D Art and More appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. Triangulate.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Location-based games are already popular, with over a billion downloads of Pokemon Go in the three years since it launched, and over 20B kilometers walked playing the game. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner. With 2D Leap Motion applications, this means adapting traditional UX design principles that condensed around the mouse and keyboard. inner ear, visual field, and bodily position).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

In these 2 days (October, 19-20th), in Nanchang, China, it is held the first edition of the World Conference on VR Industry (WCVRI) , a very important event to talk about virtual and augmented reality. The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts. Header image by HTC).

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