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Leap Motion Announces Open-Source AR Dev Kit ‘Project North Star’

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If you’re looking to add accurate hand-tracking technology to your VR or AR experience, there are few options outside Leap Motion technology. In whole it has fewer parts and preserves most of our natural field of view,” the blog post continues. We’ve got a long way to go still, so let’s go together.”.

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Leap Motion Teases ‘Augmented Office’ With Project North Star AR Dev Kit

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With Leap Motion’s Project North Star set to hit the streets in the coming months, the American-based hand-tracking depth sensor manufacturer has officially begun teasing the various ambitious design concepts made possible by the open source AR development kit. — LeapMotion (@LeapMotion) April 24, 2018.

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Leap Motion Reveals Project North Star, an Open-source Wide FOV AR Headset Dev Kit

Road to VR

Over the last few weeks, Leap Motion has been teasing some very compelling AR interface prototypes, demonstrated on an unknown headset. Today the company reveals that the headset is a prototype dev kit, designed in-house, offering a combined 100 degree field of view, low latency, and high resolution. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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

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63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. Additional latency. You will “feel” the latency in ways that you wouldn’t on a full setup. If you’re sensitive to motion sickness, the added latency may cause you to feel uncomfortable. Your VR Prototyping Kit. $63

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Leap Motion’s ‘Interaction Engine’ Unlocks More Natural Human Input for VR

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Leap Motion has announced it’s to early access to the beta of its Interaction Engine , a set of systems designed to help developers implement compelling, realistic and hopefully frustration-free input with just their hands.

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Introducing Orion: Next-Generation Hand Tracking for VR

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A lot has been going on behind the scenes here at Leap Motion. It comes with a huge increase in the general capabilities of our tracking technology and a profound shift in the reliability guarantees of markerless motion tracking systems. We’ve unlocked lower latency. Longer range. Better and faster hand recognition.

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3 Robots About to Break Into Your Everyday Reality

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At Leap Motion, we’ve seen our fair share of impressive motion-controlled robots that will one day bring about the robocalypse. At this stage, he says, bringing the latency down will be an important step in reducing sim sickness. Leap Motion can detect the hand gestures very accurately. Happy Halloween!