The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Apart from being more accurate, Hyperion features some important new features, that the company describes as follows: Microgesture interactions: Hyperion can track small finger movements down to the millimeter, enabling subtle gestures that require minimal effort. I believe there will be many use cases for 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 ! The Venture Reality Fund and of course HTC. Hands tracking for Vive Pro. Header image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As an adult, James decided to try retraining his brain using a combination of Leap Motion hand tracking and VR. Over the course of treatment, the system gradually reduces the difference between the two. This has real consequences for patients, especially children, who may not complete treatment courses.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

During the conceptualization of the resort, Michael Graves & Associates produced a series of hand-drawn watercolor renditions of the proposed design, including golf courses, hotels, beach clubs, and a variety of other structures blending seamlessly into the locations unique landscape. Image Credit: Kilograph.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional Leap Motion v1 controller + Leap Motion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for Leap Motion. Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Today Ultraleap has officially released Gemini, the fifth-version of the hands tracking runtime. As usual, this article comes with a video version where I show you my hands-on session with Ultraleap Gemini! This can be an annoying problems when you are using hand tracking to interact with your VR experiences.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion. Not wanting to wait for the future to one day show up, Leap Motion has designed its own prototype AR headset which is made to give developers a development platform which represents the input and output experience that future AR headsets will hopefully one day provide.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 8, 2015

With 25,000 new developers registered since August, there are now over 150,000 developers in more than 186 countries building with Leap Motion technology. We set the bar really high in 2014, with eight updates to our core software over the course of just four months. New Widgets for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

Holovis’ press release describes some of its interactivity achieved via hand tracking – “riders could explore things in the cab, such as change the radio station, scroll through the news and pick up elements that fall from the glove box as it opens during the first inversion”. image courtesy Holovis.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2020

Before telling you my impressions, let me tell you the specifications of this jewel: Display resolution: 1440×1600 per eye (standard screen) + 1920×1080 per eye (micro-display) Refresh-rate: 60/90Hz Field of view: 87° Tracking: SteamVR 2.0 Integrated eye tracking (+automatic IPD adjustment) Integrated hands tracking (by Ultraleap).

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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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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. The Leap Motion Interaction Engine provides the foundation for hand-centric VR interaction design.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Let me tell you my first hands-on impressions on it! Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Quest hand tracking is perfect for slower experiences with light interaction. During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Combined with hand tracking and visual feedback, sound even has the power to create the illusion of tactile sensation. Our hand tracking technology can only track what it can see, so you may want to design interaction sounds that fade out as users approach the edge of the tracking field of view. Pick it up.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This is of course not required for the Secure edition It is possible to add Ultraleap hand tracking for +499€. Of course, a more accurate test would be having the headset for at least 1 hour of consecutive play time, but let’s say that at least the first impressions were good in this sense.

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2017

Bandai Namco’s ‘ Project i Can ‘ has made the Anywhere Door a (virtual) reality using the HTC Vive, Leap Motion, and a few simple props tracked with attached Vive controllers. As the tunnel nears, it becomes apparent that the users are on a collision course, though they can be saved by ducking.

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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. To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset. I hate this.

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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?

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Leapmotion

JUNE 20, 2018

At Leap Motion, we’re always looking to advance our interactions in ways that push our hardware and software. Click To Tweet With this demo, we have the magic of Leap Motion hand tracking combined with a handheld paddle controller. And, of course, an AI opponent to challenge you.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Of course, companies looking to leverage the most advanced passthrough features will need to pay a little more. Tracking options: Users can configure their headset for SteamVR tracking, as well as ART and Optitrack via API. The XR-4 series also supports UltraLeap’s Leap Motion 2 hand-tracking module for custom requirements.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

It is still not perfect ( Leap Motion is still more accurate), but surely it is a step forward from the Oculus Touch. Since we are talking about SDKs, Valve has just announced a new SDK to take in count hands tracking: SteamVR Skeletal Input. Areas where the force sensors are installed (Image by Valve). Knuckles EV2.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A variation called the VR-2 also offers integrated hand-tracking via Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion). Varjo VR-2 Pro with Hand-tracking. The video below shows both eye-tracking and hand-tracking in action on the VR-2 Pro: Varjo VR-2 and VR-2 Pro Price and Release Date.

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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. It is a little box you could put on your table to feel haptic sensations on your hands without wearing any kind of gloves. Ultraleap Stratos Explore.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Oculus Link for example or Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond are two worthy mentions, yet it must be the experimental hand tracking feature for Oculus Quest that takes home the crown, especially after testing the technology first-hand. All designed, of course, to get you to grab and touch various objects.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

The great news is that SenseGlove has been so kind as to send me a review unit some days ago, and of course I’ve made many extensive tests so that to write a detailed review for you! Example of failure of SenseGlove system: my virtual hands are trespassing the object and the haptic feedback is completely wrong.

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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. Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” NexusVR’s interactions are built on the idea of natural haptic feedback with your bare hands.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 3, 2023

On the last day, I tried many interesting technologies, but I selected two for this summary, which are the first two that I’ve tried: the new Leap Motion Controller by Ultraleap and the AR technology by LetinAR. You can see how it is in this picture, where I’ve put my hand for scale.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Cinemas are setting up shop in the metaverse, so we can sit back and watch 2D film classics like our favorite Christmas movie ( Die Hard , of course). With hand tracking as the fundamental input for VR, there are some really exciting possibilities for film over the next 10 years. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 20, 2022

Additionally, hand-tracking is getting an expanded, gesture-based menu. Beyond choosing to open the usual Oculus menu you’ll also be able to move your pinched hand to select other actions like taking a screenshot or activating voice commands. Releasing your pinch will make the selection.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. Originally I was going to make a standalone device which hooked everything up to a Nvidia Jetson Nano that could be worn on your belt (think Magic Leap One). Can you tell us about the UX experiments that you have done for AR? The amount of Three.js

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The best of them comes of course from Facebook. Zuck in its quarterly earning calls has said to investors that the sales of the Quest 2 are going so well that it is on track to become the first mainstream headset (that probably means 10M units sold). UltraLeap launches Gemini hands-tracking runtime. Top news of the week.

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