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

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For instance, according to its documentation , Lynx R-1 will allow for the retrieval of the camera images Use a PC headset: on PC things are much more open than on Android, and usually it’s easier to “find a way” Use additional hardware. And recently Leap Motion has become compatible with standalone headsets like Pico ones.

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Leap Motion’s Interaction Engine Lets You Get a Grip in VR

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Launched back in 2012, Leap Motion first introduced us to their new way of interacting with computers in three dimensions. At the time, the Leap Motion sensor sat on your desk or was built into your keyboard, allowing for natural hand and finger movement tracking. There was one thing — the device never really caught on.

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Triton Project is an affordable DIY AR headset

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Then for the next 6 months I built the platform and documented everything to be replicated by the community both in the user experience and pure excitement as AR brings your surface to life. . This is the official documented guide for building a Triton headset. Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking.

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Design Sprints at Leap Motion: Building a Sculpture Prototype with the Graphic Renderer

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Click To Tweet The Leap Motion Interaction Engine lets developers give their virtual objects the ability to be picked up, thrown, nudged, swatted, smooshed, or poked. For more technical details and tutorials, check out our documentation. Rapid Prototyping and Development at Leap Motion.

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WCVRI: Hands-on with new North Star headset, Virtualizer 2, Pareal VR and more!

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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. In March, in Shenzhen, I have met Noah Zerkin , a genius that has found a way to transform this project from some documents on GitHub to a real headset.

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What is MRTK-Unity? – Mixed Reality ToolKit

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The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller.

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Reality is Your Instrument: Composing in Soundscape VR

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Designed for the Oculus Rift, it’s available free for Mac and Windows on the Leap Motion App Store. Over time, my interest shifted to Unity3D, and now I love to tinker with new hardware like the Leap Motion, Oculus Rift, or Kinect – which led to experiments like Hoverboard VR , Polyrider , and Soundscape VR.