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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

Quest and privacy Those times we hoped for have arrived : the Quest 3 is a machine much more powerful than the Vive Focus, it has a color passthrough with a quite good definition, and AI is now flourishing. Another example could be an educational experience that trains the user in doing something (e.g.

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Take A Walk On The Wild Side Of VR With Cybershoes

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For example, they could be used for training in industrial facilities, physical therapy, rehab, real estate tours, the list goes on. In one case study, a multiple-sclerosis patient used Cybershoes along with a Leap Motion sensor to walk around a subway system while using her hands to push doors.

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

The Ghost Howls

thanks to a better training). 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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Weightless Remastered: Building with the Interaction Engine

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Following up on last week’s release of the Leap Motion Interaction Engine , I’m excited to share Weightless: Remastered , a major update to my project that won second place in the first-ever 3D Jam. We’ll come back to the Interaction Engine later when we look at designing the brand-new Weightless Training Room.

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Weightless Creator Martin Schubert on Designing a Zero-Gravity Sci-Fi Playground

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It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. I’ve listened to a lot of his lectures, and the way he communicates very old philosophical concepts through engaging, elegant trains of thought always gets me. Training yourself to break things down to understand them transfers to all aspects of life.

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Hands-On: Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Feels Great, But It’s Not Perfect

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It’s not perfect, but it is definitely a step in the right direction. As for actions such as pulling up menus or teleporting around virtual environments, it’s possible that hand gestures such as the ones used with the Microsoft HoloLens or Leap Motion could resolve this. Not for every experience, but definitely for some.