Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly integrated into future mobile VR headsets.

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MARCH 31, 2016

Now officially integrated in Unreal Engine 4.11 , getnamo’s independent plugin for Leap Motion makes it faster and easier than ever to integrate Leap Motion Orion into your VR projects! After ordering the Rift in 2013, Jan released several VR experiments, starting with Rift Mountain in the first Oculus VR Jam.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This weekend, we saw 50+ early submissions to the Leap Motion 3D Jam! With over $75,000 in cash and prizes available to winning teams – including a trip and demo booth at IndieCade East 2015 – we can’t wait to see their final submissions on December 1. This Windows demo uses an Xbox 360 controller to navigate.

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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. Watch for more Vive-compatible demos on our developer gallery. Does it work with the Vive Controllers? On the Oculus Rift, the distance between the controller and your eyes is about 8 cm.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Now featuring full head-mounted support for the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2, Collider brings together raw infrared imagery with full 3D immersion – and it’s available free on the Leap Motion App Store. The progression is self-driven, so you control the speed and intensity of the experience. Trailer by Edwon.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It seems that Mark is still working on that vision, so that in the end, Facebook will be able to do on its devices whatever it wants, without compromises and without control. A company of this kind, with full control and no restrictions, could do great things on the tech side, but very bad things on the privacy side. I hate this.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! 6 DOF Controllers for Vive Focus. In short: the Vive Focus will finally have two 6 DOF controllers. Really fantastic.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. The experience within the headset will be at least a couple of frames behind what you would experience on the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. If you’re sensitive to motion sickness, the added latency may cause you to feel uncomfortable.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 25, 2014

You can read more about James’ work in his guest post on designing Diplopia for the Oculus Rift, which he built using our Unity Demo Pack ( update: now deprecated ). Want to see more projects with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion Controller? Update: Diplopia is now Vivid Vision.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

As we developed demos and prototypes with the Oculus Rift internally, several UX insights sprung forth. Plasma Ball VR stays at a comfortable distance while being controlled by your hands, using tracking data combined with raw image passthrough. Maintain a comfortable distance between the viewer and layered virtual objects.

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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. Without using Vive Trackers or other sensors, they try to reconstruct the pose of the full body of the users by just using the pose of the headset and the two controllers. An Oculus Go with the picture of a painting attached to it.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has kicked off Oculus Connect 6 with several exciting announcements, the biggest being an update for Oculus Quest which will see hand-tracking added to the system in 2020. Facebook Reality Labs has achieved this using AI and neural networks to recognise your hands.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Check out these 17 3D Jam VR demos that will take you to new worlds. Control your fear as you get trapped in an abandoned sawmill to survive as long as possible. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. I was so surprised how playing a game with my hands as the controllers changed what was fun and what felt odd to do.”.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

With the recent release of the Oculus Rift CV1 and 1.3 SDK, you’ll also want to check out Oculus’ migration guide. Unreal Engine 4.11 doesn’t currently have Oculus 1.3 Once it arrives, the new official Leap Motion UE4 plugin should work with it right away. Do Leap Motion demos work with the 1.3

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Today in the last of our 3D Jam spotlight series, check out these VR demos that take you to the edge and leave you breathless. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Take the leap! Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Check out educational 3D Jam demos that take you to the center of the earth, or into the human body. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Designed by a team of students at Game-U ( @gameu_nj ), Nerves is an intense visit to the operating room for a motion-control surgeon. Requires: Mac, Oculus Rift. Education Projects.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. UI controls. Mobile VR – iOS and Android. What Are the Key Features of MRTK-Unity?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 22, 2016

Hands-On: Manus VR Arm And Finger Tracking System Now In Production Regardless of whether or not you prefer the HTC Vive or the Oculus Touch , or maybe the PlayStation Move controllers , the fact remains none of these solutions actually offer 1:1 tracking for your entire hand.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Markers can be used to define where to show virtual elements, and in the demo that I tried were used to show virtual Chinese artworks in a room; Leap Motion device on Realmax glasses. RealMax can mount a Leap Motion device, so you have the power of using naturally your hands to interact with AR elements.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

And of course this is all much more likely to happen in the most inconvenient and crucial moments of a demo or experience. Dynamically mapping rich features of input gestures to properties of physics-based simulation made the interface controllable in most cases.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

At 2pm PST, join us on Twitch TV to see the latest demos and chat with your fellow game lovers. We love the concept for this demo, and while we often flew out of control, building up momentum was lots of fun. With its quietly haunting presence, this low-poly demo is perfectly suited to the Oculus Rift. Puppet Run.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

But that first version of the glove required a third-party tracking system like Leap Motion in order to translate the movement of the user’s hands into virtual reality. Castillo told me that the particular demo that I experience was made to show the tracking and not so much the haptics.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In fact, Intel was already demoing hand tracking this year at CES with their Project Alloy prototype. Anyone that has used mobile VR knows that controllers are nice, but unless you can ‘see’ your hands and interact with your surroundings with your hands, the immersion is lost.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Leap Motion hacks and mashups, plus lots more photos from a weird, wacky, and wild weekend. (By Team RiftWare’s winning Leap Motion hack lets you leverage the power of the Oculus Rift, Leap Motion, and Android Wear – so you can reach into virtual reality and control it with voice commands.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

As part of our global tour for the Leap Motion 3D Jam , we’re at Berlin’s Game Science Centre to take developers through our SDK and building with the latest VR tools. Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. Today’s Motion Controls. and Oculus 0.5

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 22, 2015

A few weeks back, we shared a new Unity3D demo featuring “Quick Switch” functionality – opening up the ability to switch between a VR application and a camera overlay. We engineered Quick Switch through a separate plugin, using the actual image passthrough data to control the “quick switch” transition. How to use it.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This week, motion designer Mike Alger released an 18-minute video that digs into the cutting edge of VR interface design using the Leap Motion Controller and Oculus Rift. The post VR Interface Design and the Future of Hybrid Reality appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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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. You can see the demo in action in the video. Hello again!

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

External tracking devices, cameras, and advanced controllers allow for high-end experiences and get the most out of what’s currently possible in VR. Oculus Rift. Motion Controller. Vive Controller. Oculus Touch. Gear VR Controller. Daydream Controller. Oculus Home. Oculus Home.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 31, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’ve seen our fair share of impressive motion-controlled robots that will one day bring about the robocalypse. On another level, a high school student’s robotics project is combining the Oculus Rift and motion control to create an experience that takes you wherever the robot goes.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Today we’re thrilled to announce the top 20 semi-finalists for the Leap Motion 3D Jam: Presented by IndieCade – our six-week global competition for $75,000 in cash and prizes. From a derelict insane asylum to a magical forest, these demos will take you to incredible places. Requires the Oculus Rift.). Happy holidays!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, this article helps you learn these: How to setup hand-tracking in Unity The different uses for hand tracking in your VR projects A quick guide to hand-tracking design for AR/VR with the Oculus Quest When you should use controllers or hands When and how to use levers Other interesting facts about hand-tracking.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

That application became Cat Explorer , which you can download now for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. On the surface it’s a fun, slightly twisted tech demo. Fine finger control is at the base of our approach for Cat Explorer’s UI design. This is the core of our mission at Leap Motion.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 25, 2014

of Airspace Home and the Leap Motion software. Plus, futuristic car concepts with touchless controls. The Leap Motion Software and Airspace Home v1.2 From calls and radio control to travel information, his demos show what might be possible with HUD windshields. Oculus Rift image courtesy of Oculus VR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2016

Reviewed On: HTC Vive (Vive Controllers) and Oculus Rift (Xbox Gamepad). New Retro Arcade: Neon isn’t an improvement over the original 2014 tech demo when it comes to playing video games. Publisher: Available On: Steam (Vive, Rift). Release Date: August 1st, 2016. Let set some things straight. Pac-Man (1981).

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