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Leap Motion Reveals Updated Project North Star AR Prototype Design

Road to VR

Last year Leap Motion, makers of hand-tracking technology, revealed Project North Star , an open-source AR headset prototype design meant to be a test bed for the kind of specs and features that more compact AR headsets will hopefully one day provide. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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Varjo XR-4 Series Review: Next-Level Mixed Reality Headsets

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Of course, companies looking to leverage the most advanced passthrough features will need to pay a little more. The XR-4 series also supports UltraLeap’s Leap Motion 2 hand-tracking module for custom requirements. Starting at $3,990, the base model is almost half the price of the previous generation XR-3.

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Varjo announces Aero, the highest-end prosumer headset

The Ghost Howls

Eye Tracking : 200 Hz with sub-degree accuracy; 1-dot calibration for foveated rendering Comfort & Wearability : 3-point precision fit headband Replaceable, easy-to-clean polyurethane face cushions Active cooling. Also, Leap Motion tracking or the mixed reality cameras of Varjo XR-3 are not part of this model.

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Triton Project is an affordable DIY AR headset

The Ghost Howls

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). You will have to buy the pieces separately and assemble it. The amount of Three.js

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Japan Joins Project North Star

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Masahiro Yamaguchi (CEO, Psychic VR Lab), God Scorpion (Media artist, Psychic VR Lab), Keiichi Matsuda (VP Design, Leap Motion), Oda Yuda (Designer), Akihiro Fujii (CTO, Psychic VR Lab). Alex Colgan (Leap Motion): What inspired you to build a North Star headset? To me the wearable UI thing is something we want to try.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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Starting with the Device itself: today we use smartphones, and tomorrow we may be using some kind of headset, glasses or audio-only wearable, with different kinds of control or head/gaze tracking. What kind of devices and software will we need to participate in this AR Cloud? Companies exploring this world include Arcona, Darabase, AR Grid.

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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

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You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community.