Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. Click To Tweet Leap Motion goes mobile. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. VR prototyping for less than $100 with Leap Motion + VRidge.

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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 top three winners were all VR experiences designed for the Oculus Rift – reflecting how virtual reality is opening up new possibilities for truly innovative and compelling experiences.

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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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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. We’ve getting ever closer to our goal – which is to make virtual reality indistinguishable from reality itself.”

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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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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

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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MAY 10, 2017

The acronym for Augmented World Expo (AWE) welcomes a wonderful play on words, recognizing the incredible minds behind augmented and virtual reality as the tech superheroes they are and having attendees to stare in “AWE” at their work. Event details and registration options are now live at the official website.

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MARCH 19, 2017

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. It showed me that virtual reality has only scratched the surface. Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR.

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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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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

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. When we bring our hands into a virtual space, we also bring a lifetime’s worth of physical biases with us. sending events on HorizontalSlide, HoverBegin, and HoverEnd events.

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. Something to note, all nominees had to be centered on a virtual reality experience, and not an augmented reality experience.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 3, 2023

On the last day, I tried many interesting technologies, but I selected two for this summary, which are the first two that I’ve tried: the new Leap Motion Controller by Ultraleap and the AR technology by LetinAR. You can see how it is in this picture, where I’ve put my hand for scale. But at least it was a fun experience!

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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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OCTOBER 8, 2016

Virtual Reality does not have many comprehensive award shows, but the Proto Awards just might be the closest thing the industry currently has to The Oscars many of the VR scene’s most elite designers and personalities gathered toghether at the AVALON theater in Hollywood for one purpose: to name the most impressive experiences of the year.

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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. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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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. via Gfycat.

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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. Noah has been active in the augmented reality and open hardware communities for over a decade.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts.

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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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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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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’re making VR/AR development easier with Widgets: fundamental UI building blocks for Unity. They’re useful for quickly setting up a virtual reality interface, but they’re missing some pieces to make them useable in a robust production application. This is part 5 of our Planetarium series.

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JUNE 24, 2017

Virtual reality is an exciting medium, but for first time users it can take a few minutes to master its limitations. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2020

The last two days I’ve been in Germany to attend the LearnTec event together with Massimiliano Ariani , the game designer of the fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded , to have a speech about the latest developments of Mobile AR. Hands tracking. Zoom on the application, and the use of hands tracking to interact with its menus.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 21, 2015

Last week at SFHTML5, Leap Motion CTO David Holz shared his educated guess on what we’ll see with upcoming generations of virtual reality headsets and sensors. Along the way, he talks about what Leap Motion needs to achieve for truly seamless VR hand controls.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

As part of our global tour for the Leap Motion 3D Jam , we’re at Berlin’s Game Science Centre to take developers through our SDK and building with the latest VR tools. Ahead of the event, we thought we’d give you a quick overview of what to expect. Hey everyone! Registrations for the workshops and meetup are still open.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2016

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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VRGuy

APRIL 25, 2015

Illustration from Meta SpaceGlasses Can the OSVR project be used not just for virtual reality but also for augmented reality? Extract data and events from the peripherals and pass it on to the application in a standardized way. Absolutely! Configure each peripheral and the interconnection between them.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

The vast majority of VR devs are very isolated right now, there are no events, and as the ecosystem is still a majority of indie and solo developers, they are also quite isolated in terms of marketing and communication. . Playing around with the Leap Motion interaction system. It was surprisingly easy! .

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Oculus has already pre-announced great things for Oculus Connect 6 (involving AR and VR) and for sure that event will be the occasion to let us understand what is this new VR that Oculus will give us. Some people will be invited at the event, while all the others will be able to see the livestream video after the event itself.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." And that's great.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It will be a very interesting event and you can register at this link if you want to enjoy it (come on, it’s free!). The mystery of Virtual Reality support on Xbox continues with a new chapter of the saga. Top news of the week. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 7, 2017

This week we hit the CES showfloor in Las Vegas with two missions: share our Mobile VR Platform with the world and play “spot Leap Motion in the wild.”. What is Leap Motion? With an embedded input solution, developers can know that 100% of users have access to Leap Motion interaction.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The project is also opensource, and this can let more people enter AR and make community around it. The accompanying social platform is teased as a full metaverse that will be at start exclusive for the Mova headset and that will let people interact in XR like in real life and attend meetings and events. Contact me. Some XR fun.

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