Leapmotion

DECEMBER 5, 2016

That’s why I think all of us work in technology, and why we at Leap Motion are always very much living in the future. Today I’m going to be talking about the Leap Motion Mobile Platform. We needed to build a whole new Leap Motion sensor with higher performance and much lower power.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Allowing these tracking capabilities without the need of an external device, such as the popular Leap Motion controller, could finally put the Vive Pro on the map by providing users a one-of-a-kind AAA VR experience that can be operated naturally with their own two hands.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Starting on October 19th, Leap Motion and IndieCade are kicking off a six-week global competition for developers to build innovative experiences for desktop, virtual reality, and beyond. For the Select and Open 3D Jam first-place teams, $5,000 USD and up to $2,500 in travel costs to exhibit with Leap Motion at IndieCade East 2015.

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Leapmotion

JULY 22, 2015

We’ve come a long way since we first launched the Leap Motion Controller two years ago. Since we released our technology to the world, we’ve been constantly working to bring new tools and assets to developers building with the Leap Motion platform. The Leap Motion team. The post Leap Motion 3D Jam 2.0

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Click To Tweet Leap Motion goes mobile. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. MARCH 2: To match the new capabilities of Leap Motion Orion with the performance demands of VR, we gave our Unity toolset an overhaul from the ground up. See you in the new year!

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 15, 2015

Today on the blog, we’ve handpicked six assets that will take your Leap Motion VR demo to the next level. Avatar Hand Controller for Leap Motion – $5. With tons of options you’ll find everything you need to build unique materials for your Leap Motion VR scenes. iTween – Free. Breakable Glass – Free.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly integrated into future mobile VR headsets.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 10, 2015

Today we’re excited to announce the winners of the Leap Motion 3D Jam – but first, we have a special surprise for all our top 20 semi-finalists. The winners were chosen from the semi-finalists by a special jury drawn from Leap Motion and the IndieCade community. #1. The post Announcing the Leap Motion 3D Jam Winners!

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 21, 2017

strLast time, we looked at how an interactive VR sculpture could be created with the Leap Motion Graphic Renderer as part of an experiment in interaction design. The Leap Motion Interaction Engine provides the foundation for hand-centric VR interaction design. Scale of individual objects. Layout function.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

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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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This weekend, we saw 50+ early submissions to the Leap Motion 3D Jam! With the Leap Motion Controller and Oculus Rift, explore a bioluminescent world full of magic and beauty to create a synesthetic experience combining music, sound, art, and hand interaction. The post Who Will Win the Leap Motion 3D Jam?

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 8, 2015

With 25,000 new developers registered since August, there are now over 150,000 developers in more than 186 countries building with Leap Motion technology. The post Leap Motion + VR 2015: A Look at the Year Ahead appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. New Widgets for VR.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Click To Tweet When someone first puts on a Leap Motion-enabled VR headset, it often seems like they’re rediscovering how to use their own hands. sending events on HorizontalSlide, HoverBegin, and HoverEnd events. From Flat Screens to VR Interfaces. In a sense, they are.

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Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

Early last month, Leap Motion kicked off our internal hackathon with a round of pitch sessions. At Leap Motion, we spend a lot of time experimenting with new ways of interacting with technology, and we often run into the same problem. Leap Motion. Our team of five ran with this concept to create AR Screen.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

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. Two Bit Circus did something similar at the event.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

AWE has finished, and it has been a cool event (you can read some of my articles about it here , here , and here ), and now I’m spending a few days here trying to have some relevant meetings. Tomorrow, June, 5th, Apple will most probably launch its Apple Reality Pro headset. So I’m almost sure it is going to happen.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2018

Here’s a roundup of our coverage of E3 2018 before the official start of the event. Set two decades after the events of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017) , Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot is a standalone VR game set to launch next year. Major Tracking Update for Leap Motion. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The most recent hardware revisions brought automatic IPD adjustment, an embedded Leap Motion sensor for wide FOV hand-tracking, and reduced weight and size. VRgineers are showing XTAL at the Showstoppers press event at CES 2019, taking place in Las Vegas on January 8th, 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? People can just build worlds, but not organize events anymore. I’m speechless.

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Leapmotion

JULY 11, 2019

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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). Regarding the event, it seems having its importance here. This is not an easy task.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2017

The root of the HMD Accelerator Program is the Snapdragon 835-based VRDK reference headset, an all-in-one mobile VR headset with inside-out 6DOF tracking, a 90Hz 2560×1440 AMOLED display, 100 degree field of view, 4GB of RAM, eye-tracking, and hand-tracking ( via Leap Motion’s new mobile sensor ).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 10, 2017

Even their website and trailer (below) for 2017’s expo imbue a heroic theme, building buzz for the event with high energy. Individuals from companies such as HTC Vive, NVIDIA, Osterhout, Unity, castAR, Qualcomm, Leap Motion, Meta, Verizon, Dell, Oculus, and more will be among the over 300 featured speakers in attendance.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

Today I will start telling you the main news from the event , and in the next posts, I will tell you how the VEC is and how it has been launching a game there. Actually, since HTC has just started experimenting with this, the tracking is still not as precise as the one of Leap Motion, but it is improving. Me at VEC 2019.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’re making VR/AR development easier with Widgets: fundamental UI building blocks for Unity. When we sat down to build Planetarium , the need for an explicit event messaging and data-binding layer became obvious. The post Designing the Widgets Event and Data-Binding Model appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

One month ago, I’ve participated in the Stereopsia event in Bruxelles (Belgium) to perform a talk about how to organize an event in virtual reality. Like every event, it has pros and cons. The con is that it is a rather small event. The pro is that it is a great event for networking. How is Stereopsia? VR Pianist.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. As Alex of Leap Motion explained me, using carefully studied sounds and visual feedback when the user touches a virtual object, it is possible to create a sense of fake touch, that can make the experience more realistic.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

This is because our brains “continuously bind information obtained through many sensory channels to form solid percepts of objects and events.” Tagged with: leap motion Facebook Twitter Reddit More. Some users even describe phantom sensations in VR, which are almost always associated with compelling sound design.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

I had chance to catch up with Bruce Wooden (aka “Cymatic Bruce” ) at SVVR 2016 to talk about what types of events they’ve been holding, what types of emergent social behaviors he’s seeing, and how they’ve been teaching VR etiquette within their welcome spaces for new users. Get a front row seat here: https://t.co/YuRZnfJQUe

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

It now supports Oculus Quest, HTC Vive and UltraLeap (former Leap Motion) systems of skeletal hand tracking for interactions based on realistic, and customizable, hand poses. This allows Interhaptics to include a more advanced event system due to logic-based interactions.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2014

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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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Leap Motion – Leap Motion. VR was a big part of last year with new experiences, hardware and companies pushing the technology to the forefront of our everyday lives. Merge VR – Goggles. Google – Daydream View. Samsung – Gear VR. Homido – V2. Nominees for VR Hardware of the Year.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Since it can’t be held physically, it has been made as a digital event. The event is so happening in a WebVR ecosystem, where you can join from whatever device and meet the other participants and the creators in a cozy lobby. The Sundance Film Festival, one of the most important movie festivals happening every year, has just started.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

After I have published all these posts about the WCVRI event in Nanchang (e.g. this one with the hands-on session on Huawei glasses or this one with our experience in exhibiting a game in this event ), many people that have not been there have asked me if it is worth going there. You may ask me how the event is big.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2019

As always in the typical Valve style, it has not made it with some big reveal during an event, but it has just opened a dedicated page on its website, that you can access here. This may be the purpose of the two baseline cameras… or there may also be an embedded Leap Motion v2. The image teased by Valve on its website.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Facebook Connect, the most awaited VR event of 2021, happened, and it was not as we expected it to be. The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2018

However, that lack of over-the-top glamour actually suits the event very well. Just like how people in a movie theater aren’t constantly marveling at how a projector works, visitors who paid to experience the whopping 9 hours of VR content at the event were after captivating stories and new experiences.

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