The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

One of the biggest drawbacks of HTC Vive headsets with regard to Oculus Rift are the controllers: while Oculus Touch is ergonomic and can emulate the hands quite well, Vive has controllers that are quite big and are usable only as wands. Today, a year after the last update, we have new info about Knuckles controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! How to get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK in Unity – Video Tutorial.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

Beat Saber and Gorilla Tag) came from small and unknown indie studios , you realize how important it is to let everyone in the community experiment with new paradigms. How to preserve privacy then? If you use a Leap Motion controller, you should be able to grab the feed of its cameras according to its docs.

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Leapmotion

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! The post Leap Motion VR Support Now Directly Integrated in Unreal Engine appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Why should we invent another joystick, gamepad or controller, if we already have, thanks to millions of years of evolution, the most perfect controller for interaction with the environment – hands? How to enhance a car? How to sell a new model of refrigerator? Source: imdb.com. Current State. Sounds funny, yeah?

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

It was once thought that controller-less glove & finger tracking technology would be the ideal input for virtual reality, but over the last few years the benefits of having a physical, tracked controller for VR input have become quite apparent. Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

At Leap Motion, we believe that the next wave of technological interfaces will rely on the original human operating system: your hands. Whether you’re giving people the power to grab a skeleton , reaching into a human heart , or teaching anyone how to program , hands are powerful. Defend Against Zombies, Learn How to Code.

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2018

However, the team at Leap Motion has also investigated more exotic and exciting interface paradigms from arm HUDs and digital wearables, to deployable widgets containing buttons, sliders, and even 3D trackballs and color pickers. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 21, 2017

strLast time, we looked at how an interactive VR sculpture could be created with the Leap Motion Graphic Renderer as part of an experiment in interaction design. With the sculpture’s shapes rendering, we can now craft and code the layout and control of this 3D shape pool and the reactive behaviors of the individual objects.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2018

Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Martin is Lead Virtual Reality Designer and Evangelist for Leap Motion. He has created multiple experiences such as Weightless, Geometric, and Mirrors, and is currently exploring how to make the virtual feel more tangible. The Challenge.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As mainstream VR/AR input continues to evolve – from the early days of gaze-only input to wand-style controllers and fully articulated hand tracking – so too are the virtual user interfaces we interact with. Concept: A Playset, Not A Control Board. From Flat Screens to VR Interfaces. In a sense, they are. 3D Drag and Drop.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Plasma Ball VR stays at a comfortable distance while being controlled by your hands, using tracking data combined with raw image passthrough. When the Leap Motion Controller is mounted on a VR headset, it can see beyond your virtual field of view, but your hands will occasionally fall out of sensor range.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Like every open source project, several of its scripts are interdependent and they require some time to fully understand how to combine them. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? VRTK, as other existing VR interaction toolkits, is built around logic input from controllers. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Through input events, the user may configure apps to receive inputs from a number of input sources — 6 degrees of free (6DoF) controllers, articulated hands, and voice, as well as Select or Menu, features, and correlate them with various inputs.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? According to a guy on Twitter that answered my post, Ultraleap should launch a new tracking controller this year.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Fortunately, while written instructions have to compete with a huge variety of visual stimuli, you have a lot more control over what your user hears. Tagged with: leap motion Facebook Twitter Reddit More. Tutorial Audio. It’s sad but true – most users don’t read instructions. Magic and Progression.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 13, 2015

As an optical motion tracking platform , the Leap Motion Controller is fundamentally different from handheld controllers in many ways. Here are 4 tips to designing for the controller’s unique strengths, while avoiding common pitfalls. You don’t know, and neither does the Leap Motion Controller.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

One month ago, I’ve participated in the Stereopsia event in Bruxelles (Belgium) to perform a talk about how to organize an event in virtual reality. 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. VR Pianist.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Ultrahaptics went on to raise $23 million, begin to interest car companies , and later absorb the much-hyped Leap Motion, which, it turns out, was a match made in heaven, by uniting both hand tracking and mid-air haptics. Of course, one of the key drivers of this touchless technology is of course The Great Pandemic.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

While the Oculus Rift and OSVR HDK headsets are both supported by SteamVR, only headsets with motion controllers are supported at this time, making it a defacto HTC Vive experience. There doesn’t seem to be any available button mapping for XBox One controllers currently. A SteamVR capable headset with tracked controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

This is how to set it up. Before officially releasing it, Mr. President has highlighted that the Focus Plus is not just a Vive Focus with two 6 DOF controllers, but it has also a better weight balancing and new improved lenses (I will tell you my impressions on the device in my next post).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

But what sparks the biggest debates are the controllers , with the thumbsticks that are not perfect and don’t click in all directions. Everyone agrees that they are great controllers, but not everyone agrees on the fact that they are truly revolutionary. How to use Vive Wireless Adapter with a laptop. Very interesting.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2015

We engineered Quick Switch through a separate plugin, using the actual image passthrough data to control the “quick switch” transition. This means it won’t interfere with any applications using traditional Leap Motion tracking. How to use it. Ready to get started? The post Quick Switch is Here!

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Leapmotion

JUNE 23, 2015

The physical cameras on the controller have a fixed separation of 40 mm. The virtual cameras exist in VR, and are looking at virtual objects as well as the images coming in from the controller. The post The Alignment Problem: How to Position Cameras for Augmented Reality appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 29, 2015

As a human, you’re not born with an intuitive knowledge of what a teapot does, or how to use it. This means that its physical appearance guides how you use it. This is a really simple example, but a powerful one – because affordances are everywhere, and they control your life. We instinctively know how. Further Reading.

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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. 4 Design Problems for VR Tracking (And How to Solve Them).

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Leapmotion

APRIL 30, 2015

While the Leap Motion Controller can track more than 2 feet away, the “sweet spot” for tracking is roughly 1 foot from the device. Since this is beyond the optimal Leap Motion tracking range, you’ll want to make interactive objects appear within reach, or respond to reach within that range. Further Reading.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Find out this week on Developer Labs with a retro art experiment and how hardware hacking can change the world. To take control of your own hardware integrations, check out Cylon.js to hack an Arduino. We’ve already seen Christmas lights , laser turrets , and vehicles – what would you Leap? Leap Motion at PennApps.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

In order for students to think about how to create pieces of music and pieces of software, we enable groups to get together and make music as an ensemble. There’s a lot to learn – you have to learn how to compose, orchestrate music for an ensemble, interaction design, etc. They came up with these new ways to control sound.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2018

This is because Leap Motion has announced its v4 version of the tracking runtime and with it three demos to showcase the new tracking functionalities: Cat Explorer, Particles, and Paint. Cat Explorer is an educational app made to show you all the anatomy of a cat and it obviously employs Leap Motion as the only medium of interaction.

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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. Hello again! Another example would be playing piano with notes corresponding to the fingers.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The Oculus Touch provides a great way of interacting with digital worlds on Oculus Quest but the company also knows that they can be a barrier, as people still need to learn how to use them.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). built in to headband Controllers ?—?6DOF pounds (0.55kg) Cable Length: 19.5

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is currently producing its DK1 device , that can be used both with Vive systems (in this case, a Vive Tracker is attached to the gloves to provide the positional tracking) or Oculus systems (in this case, the Oculus Touch controllers are used). It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 5, 2016

From there, here’s how to do it: Cords. Unlike the Oculus Rift CV1, the HTC Vive has an onboard USB port that’s fully compatible with the Leap Motion Controller. The post Hacking the (Old) VR Developer Mount for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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