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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.21): Quest 2 released, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Leap Motion 2 on sale, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! an ARM chips can be installed on IoT sensors that communicate to a server where an NVIDIA card is used to perform machine learning on the data). You can finally buy the Leap Motion v2 accessory.

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We need camera access to unleash the full potential of Mixed Reality

The Ghost Howls

I had some wonderful ideas of Mixed Reality applications I would like to prototype, but most of them are impossible to do in this moment because of a decision that almost all VR/MR headset manufacturers have taken: preventing developers from accessing camera data. But, paradoxically, I can do now much fewer experiments than before.

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Experiential Technology Event Shows How Far VR Has To Go

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I liked the event, curated by Zack Lynch of Jazz Venture Partners , because it reminded me of the long view of VR and how much of a role that research and development still has to play in it. Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. He said the brain doesn’t see the raw data of reality.

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Designing the Widgets Event and Data-Binding Model

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At Leap Motion, we’re making VR/AR development easier with Widgets: fundamental UI building blocks for Unity. This time around, I’ll talk a bit about how we handled integrating the UI Widgets into the data model for Planetarium , and what this means for you. This is part 5 of our Planetarium series. Daniel here again!

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Reach into the Digital World: Getting Started with Leap Motion @ HackingEDU

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At Leap Motion, we believe that the next wave of technological interfaces will rely on the original human operating system: your hands. With HackingEDU just around the corner, Leap Motion is sponsoring the world’s largest education hackathon with over 100 Leap Motion Controllers for attendees to use.

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Cal Hacks 2014: Voice-Commanded Virtual Reality and Musical Data

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Leap Motion hacks and mashups, plus lots more photos from a weird, wacky, and wild weekend. (By By the way, if you want to stay posted on all the latest events and meetups, don’t miss out! Leap Learning. The winner of the Moxtra and Dropbox sponsor prizes, Leap Learning uses the YouTube API and WebGL.

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#BuildYourNorthStar Workshop Brings AR to Life in 48 Hours

Leapmotion

In support of the event, our team donated Leap Motion Controllers. Our CTO David Holz and engineer/ AR tennis champion Jonathon Selstad joined the workshop, along with former Leap Motion engineer Adam Munich. He had experience building homebrew data gloves and mocap systems for years before discovering Leap Motion.