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Exclusive: Leap Motion Explores Ways to Make Controller-free Input More Intuitive and Immersive

Road to VR

There’s an intuitive appeal to using controller-free hand-tracking input like Leap Motion’s ; there’s nothing quite like seeing your virtual hands and fingers move just like your own hands and fingers without the need to pick up and learn how to use a controller. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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

The Ghost Howls

It was pretty cool using it inside a discotheque The tools we had were very limited: the Vive Focus had just a Snapdragon 835 processor, the image was black and white and low-resolution, we had to do everything at the Unity software level, and we had no environment understanding. So, how we empower the developers without hurting the user?

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Report: Apple to Announce ARKit Updates at WWDC 2019 Including OS Support for AR Headsets

Road to VR

Apple has been continuously iterating on ARKit , its augmented reality development tool that lets creators make smartphone-based AR experiences. SEE ALSO Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through. The company unveiled ARKit at its World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in 2017, and the 2.0

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VRTK vs INTERACTION BUILDER: Which one is for you?

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It removes the extra utility tools to focus on an easy to use interaction development system, which is completely focalized on a painless and streamlined development process. It includes the precise mathematical definition of how several interactions will behave in the 3D environment. The Interaction Builder is based on a logic engine.

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

The Ghost Howls

Gartner has been very kind with me and has also provided a very long statement about the AR Cloud, extracted from its paper: Definition: The augmented reality (AR) cloud is the underlying, persistent, digital content layer mapped to objects and locations in the physical world. Header image by Leap Motion).

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5 Potential Gear VR ‘Killer Apps’ Demonstrated During Samsung Contest

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The judges were pretty unanimous in their selection of the contest’s overall winner: “VR Suite was my top choice because it’s a functional tool that can be used for productivity,” said Taylor Freeman, CEO and Chief Evangelist of Upload. Follow the developers on Facebook. That’s the challenge we faced as judges.

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Reaching for New Social Realities with AltspaceVR’s Cymatic Bruce

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Nonverbal communication has been huge for us, where we can have people wave, give the Fonzi ‘eyyyy, air quotes, thumbs up… especially with Leap Motion Orion. For folks to talk with their hands, it’s definitely a big add as far as making that connection and really seeing that person as another human behind behind the avatar.