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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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Our Journey to the North Star

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What does hand tracking need to be like for an augmented reality headset? How fast does it need to be; do we need a hundred frames per second tracking or a thousand frames per second? We started by constructing a computer model of the system to get a sense of the design space. We decided to build it around 5.5-inch