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VR Prototyping for Less Than $100 with Leap Motion + VRidge

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If you have a newer Android phone and a good gaming computer, it’s possible to prototype, test, and share your VR projects with the world using third-party software like RiftCat’s VRidge. 63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. Install the Leap Motion Orion software.

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Your Left Hand Holds the Past. Your Right Hand Reveals the Future

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These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward. It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. The core game mechanic in Aboard the Lookinglass is time. My absolute favorite aspect of game development is devising new mechanics.

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Newsletter 51 – #WWYL? How Hardware Hacks can Change the World

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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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Space and Perspective in VR

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Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset. Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Body frame of reference.

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Building Graffiti 3D: A Journey through Space and Design

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So I switched to the Leap Motion Controller and quickly got my hands in my application. The new Arm HUD Widget by Leap Motion looked good, but I knew it wouldn’t be released for some time. Designing with Leap Motion. Things went fast from here. I knew I needed to adopt a menu system of some sort.

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VR Design Guide

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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. Ergonomics. The Sensor is Always On.

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OSVR Co-founder on the Future of Open Source Virtual Reality

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He frequently shares his views and knowledge on his blog. Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. We see headsets, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs, and body suits. They need software: game engine plugins, compatible content and software utilities.