Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

The larger field of view will make the virtual world feel much more encompassing and immersive. The Knuckles controller, in development by Valve, aims to mashup the capabilities of both VR controllers and VR gloves, by creating a controller which can sense the position of all five fingers. Leap Motion North Star.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

Pimax unveiled prototypes of intuitive controllers and high-resolution, broad Field of View bundles in Las Vegas this week at CES 2019. Pimax over-delivered at CES 2019 with its Leap Motion bundle featuring 8K VR headset with built-in speakers, 200° FOV and optional eye tracking Click To Tweet.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2016

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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2020

Varjo is a Finnish startup that is offering enterprise headsets that have full “retina vision” That is, looking at the display, you don’t see the pixels anymore , but you see the virtual world as you would see the real one, without any screen door effect. This is the one providing the magic. Lateral view of Varjo.

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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. 3D Drag and Drop.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

At E3 2016 I got to see the latest prototype version of Gloveone, a haptic motion input glove designed for virtual reality. 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.

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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.

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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

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

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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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I’ve been using Unity for over 5 years for developing 3D simulations and virtual world applications, data visualization solutions, and more recently for game projects.”. 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. HomeBright.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 22, 2014

Experimental headsets are changing how we see the world, either by creating the virtual worlds of our imaginations, like the Oculus Rift, or adding ghostly layers on top of the real world, like Google Glass. At the same time, GetVu wants to bring a new level of control to augmented reality with Leap Motion technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2019

It reminded me a bit the MetaMovie project that I described here on this blog, but instead of happening all in virtual reality in High Fidelity, it is organized in an installation in real reality. It was interesting that Mandala mixed the virtual and the real world. With the last ray, we even all started flying!

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

When virtual reality and musical interface design collide, entire universes can be musical instruments. Created by artists Rob Hamilton and Chris Platz for the Stanford Laptop Orchestra , Carillon is a networked VR instrument that brings you inside a massive virtual bell tower. They came up with these new ways to control sound.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

Whimsical fall leaves, melancholy rain, spooky fog – weather can be a powerful way to set the tone for your virtual world (or give your users Storm-like superpowers). Using the weather and fire packs, Fnordcorps from Spectacular-Ocular.com has been working on integrating different particle effects into Leap Motion hand controls.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

With countless new virtual worlds just around the corner, the future is already taking shape in hardware labs and hidden codebases around the globe. The only question is how we can make the future more human as we take our first steps into places beyond reality. There’s also a solid discussion around the video here on r/oculus.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 23, 2015

When it comes to augmented reality, the right camera alignment and scale are absolutely essential to bridging the gap between real and virtual worlds. And as developers are already experimenting with image passthrough and hybrid reality resources like Image Hands , this is more important than ever.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

VR has the power to transform our lives and connect us in new ways, while hand tracking lets you reach beyond the digital divide and take control. But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further? Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!”

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Martin Schubert is a VR Developer/Designer at Leap Motion and the creator of Weightless and Geometric. And then along comes virtual reality. An inherently 3D medium requiring designed virtual 3D objects, but without the limitations and guidance of physical functions. Designing Nonexistent Objects.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

OC5 celebrates the last 5 years of virtual reality breakthroughs and gives us a glimpse of what’s to come in the next five years. Standalone virtual reality headsets are an all-in-one device that can power virtual reality on their own, with no computer or phone tethering needed. Google Cardboard ($15) .

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2022

Ultraleap Stratos Explore is the product for which Ultrahaptics (which later became Ultraleap after the fusion with Leap Motion) was famous. Ultraleap Stratos presents itself as a square box with a lot of tiny cylinders on it and a Leap Motion controller to track the hands. Ultraleap Stratos Explore.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. What kind of devices and software will we need to participate in this AR Cloud?

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. In the real world, we never think twice about using our hands to control objects. Conversely, being able to control movement reduces the experience of motion sickness.

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Leapmotion

MAY 1, 2015

From the mouse and touchscreen, to hand tracking platforms like the Leap Motion Controller, the design of UI elements like the humble button is shaped by the hardware and how we use it. Users don’t always know what to expect, and this helps to build a mental model of how the virtual world works, and what each action achieves.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality. Alan: Today’s guest is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, and particular virtual reality, Mr. Alvin Wang-Graylin.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality. Alan: Today’s guest is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, and particular virtual reality, Mr. Alvin Wang-Graylin.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 5, 2015

Virtual reality and the Internet of Things are fundamentally different in many ways, but they share a common goal – bringing digital experiences into the 3D world. In this post, we’ll take a look at ways you can hack the power of paper to bring your ideas into the real (or virtual) world – before you commit them to code.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Today we're speaking with Varag Gharibjanian, the chief revenue officer at Clay AIR, a software company shaping the future of how we interact with the digital world, using natural gesture recognition. Varag: Hey, Alan. Glad to be here.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Today we're speaking with Varag Gharibjanian, the chief revenue officer at Clay AIR, a software company shaping the future of how we interact with the digital world, using natural gesture recognition. Varag: Hey, Alan. Glad to be here.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Today we're speaking with Varag Gharibjanian, the chief revenue officer at Clay AIR, a software company shaping the future of how we interact with the digital world, using natural gesture recognition. Varag: Hey, Alan. Glad to be here.

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Leapmotion

JULY 14, 2018

Virtual reality. Augmented reality. Mixed, hyper, modulated, mediated, diminished reality. All of these flavours are really just entry points into a vast world of possibilities where we can navigate between our physical world and limitless virtual spaces. Some let you exist in other times and places.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Controllers: Inputs : A Button, B Button, System Button, Trigger, Thumbstick, Track Button with Force Sensor, Grip Force Sensor, Finger Tracking, IMU Connections : USB-C, 2.4 I bought the set Valve Index + Knuckles Controllers , so I will talk about this kind of unboxing. The top box containing the controllers. 1x DisplayPort 1.2

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

The documentation was the same as before, if not for the fact that in the page about headset Input page, there was also a reference to “Oculus Jedi” controllers. Even the modified one with the header file talking about controllers just leaks the constant of their name. Something like the Valve Index controllers.

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