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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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The 2016 Proto Awards: See Who Took Home VR’s Biggest Honors

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Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs. Best Interaction Design: Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs. Blocks – Leap Motion. Best Game: Raw Data – Survios. The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed – Cloudhead Games. The Climb – Crytek. Space Pirate Trainer – I-Illusions (Winner) . Bullet Train – Epic Games. The Lab – Valve.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

Leap MotionLeap Motion. Industrial Training International – ITI Crane Simulator. 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.

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 1: Cave, zSpace, Brogent hands-on

The Ghost Howls

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. The first night there, while we were having dinner, I asked Michael (one of the organizers of the event) if people speak well English there. It felt like magic.

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What is MRTK-Unity? – Mixed Reality ToolKit

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

It also provides quick prototyping through in-editor simulation that permits instantaneous viewing of changes. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. In addition, setup pointers may be added to controllers in order to manage UI elements through attention and pointer events.

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2016’s Proto Award Winners Revealed, Tilt Brush Receives Top Honour

Road to VR

Now in its 3rd year, the annual Proto Awards have shadowed Oculus’ developer conference Connect since the first event, with an aim to celebrate the best that this new immersive industry has to offer. Held at AVALON in Hollywood, CA, the event featured nominees vying for recognition across 17 categories, and one special award.

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5 Experiments from Leap Motion’s Internal Hackathon (Including the Augmented Reality Workspace)

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Recently, Leap Motion kicked off one of our internal hackathons, where small teams pitch and develop quick demos over the course of two days. Due to safety concerns, the team ultimately decided to make it into a sit-down space simulator where stars, comets, space dust, and planets fly past you. Utility: Swipey Joe McDesktop.