Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

When the Leap Motion Controller is mounted on a VR headset, it can see beyond your virtual field of view, but your hands will occasionally fall out of sensor range. The open-sourced Leap Motion VR Intro uses interactions designed to work seamlessly when your hands are in view – from flying in space to playing with floating spheres.

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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2018

Today we’re excited to share the second half of our design exploration along with a downloadable demo on the Leap Motion Gallery. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Martin is Lead Virtual Reality Designer and Evangelist for Leap Motion. Direct contextual commands. Tool adjustments.

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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. Even examples of hand-based, wearable UIs and dynamic deployable UIs. We’re moving beyond flat UIs from 2D screens toward a future with new spatial interface paradigms.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Learn how to optimize your #VR project for the next generation of mobile VR experiences. 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. Rapid Prototyping and Development at Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D. Let’s see how to do it. In addition, we’ll set up your headset to both hand tracking and developer modes. Table of Contents.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

If you imagine shuffling the soundtracks in these three examples, you can understand how it would fundamentally change the experience. Blocks , for example, is designed with a wide range of sounds – from the high and low electronic notes that signal the block creation interactions, to the echoes of blocks bashing against the floor.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Tooltip – Annotation user interface includes a flexible anchor/pivot mechanism for tagging motion controllers and other items. Voice command – Examples and scripts for incorporating speech input. Oculus (Unity 2019.3 The MRTK-Unity Community.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 2, 2016

With the Leap Motion Unity Core Assets and Modules , you can start building right away with features like custom-designed hands, user interfaces, and event triggers. Each section includes links to more information, including high-level overviews, documentation, and examples. Leap Motion Core Assets. Hands Module.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 13, 2015

As an optical motion tracking platform , the Leap Motion Controller is fundamentally different from handheld controllers in many ways. For example, grabbing is a distinct action that can signal intent.) EXAMPLE: (Left) What exactly are the fingers on my left hand doing? Dynamic visual feedback is also essential.

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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? If you speak Italian, watch the video and then subscribe to Gianluigi’s channel!

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Leapmotion

APRIL 29, 2015

As a human, you’re not born with an intuitive knowledge of what a teapot does, or how to use it. Luckily, it’s a classic example of affordance. This means that its physical appearance guides how you use it. This is a really simple example, but a powerful one – because affordances are everywhere, and they control your life.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 30, 2015

While the Leap Motion Controller can track more than 2 feet away, the “sweet spot” for tracking is roughly 1 foot from the device. For example, the Oculus Rift DK2 recommends a minimum range of 75 cm. Leap Motion VR Design Best Practices. 4 Design Problems for VR Tracking (And How to Solve Them).

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Leapmotion

JUNE 1, 2016

In rebuilding our Unity developer toolset from the ground up , we started by rearchitecting the interfaces that receive data from the Leap Motion device. Moving up the tech stack, we then refactored most of the mid-level Unity scripts that pair the Leap hand data with 3D models and manages those representations.

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Leapmotion

MAY 1, 2015

From the mouse and touchscreen, to hand tracking platforms like the Leap Motion Controller, the design of UI elements like the humble button is shaped by the hardware and how we use it. For Leap Motion and VR, we recommend that a single finger target should be no smaller than 20 mm in real-world size.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

It is still not perfect ( Leap Motion is still more accurate), but surely it is a step forward from the Oculus Touch. SteamVR Skeletal input will abstract the actual controller used by the player (Oculus Touch, Knuckles, Leap Motion, etc…), giving the developer the best pose of the hand detectable with the actually used sensor.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I’m Bastien Bourineau, project manager and lead developer at OpenSpace3D, and I’m back to introduce the new OpenSpace3D release with improved Leap Motion support – including how we got around the perennial indexing issue. Another example would be playing piano with notes corresponding to the fingers. Hello again!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

But you are right that it was an accelerated learning experience on how to best create and market a bundle. For example, we launched without a trailer , and with a very basic cover for the bundle, just 12 thumbnails all together. Playing around with the Leap Motion interaction system. What are your future plans?

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. GET THE PLUGIN.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Martin Schubert is a VR Developer/Designer at Leap Motion and the creator of Weightless and Geometric. Factoring in real-world physical forces – compression stress, tension, shear, brittleness, bending strength – we can get a pretty clear idea of how thick a plastic spoon’s handle should be to avoid easily snapping.

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Leapmotion

MAY 25, 2016

Example scenes are located in the Detection Examples package , which also contains an additional scene that illustrates how to use detectors. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. You can find all the Detector scripts, including the PinchDetector, as part of the Unity Core Assets.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

More info (Sundance Film Festival in WebXR) More info (The best of Sundance) More info (How to access Sundance Festival) More info (No Proscenium’s diaries about Sundance, with many reviews). After stepping down from the role of CEO of Magic Leap, Rony Abovitz has started a new venture called Sun And Thunder about digital beings.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 1, 2015

You’ve built incredible things this year, and along the way, we’ve based many of the experiments, resources, and examples found in the Developer Portal on your feedback and feature requests. The post 2014: A Year in Virtual Superlatives appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. It’s visually stunning.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Let me explain this better with an example: if you grab a bottle in real life, your fingers can’t trespass the bottle, because the material of the bottle exerts a force towards your fingers which prevents them to enter. you can feel when a drilling machine is on).

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

4 Design Problems for VR Tracking (And How to Solve Them). Fictional UIs vs. Today’s Motion Controls. With APIs for six programming languages and dozens of platform integrations, the Leap Motion SDK has everything you need to get started. VR Best Practices Guidelines. Thinking Outside the Mouse. The Sensor is Always On.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

How did each idea come about? With Paper Plane , we studied the basic features of Leap Motion using fairly simple mechanics. What was it like incorporating Leap Motion into your Unity workflow? We have to figure out how to naturally recreate it so people will not feel uncomfortable and disoriented in space.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

In our Exploration on World Design , we looked at how to create moods and experiences through imaginary environments. In this Exploration, we’ll cover some key spatial relationships in VR, and how you can build on human expectations to create a sense of depth and distance. For example, imagine a classic HUD.). Depth Cues.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The hands tracking is already available inside the Oculus SDK and Oculus has also released a demo that helps people in understanding how to use it. More info (Example n.1 1 of post about this on Reddit) More info (Example n.2 2 of post about this on Reddit) More info (Example n.3 3 of post about this on Reddit).

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

For example, pointing at oneself when referring to another person feels foreign. In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner. Be sure to clearly describe intended interactions, as this will greatly impact how the user does the interaction.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. Aside from this, my major work with Leap Motion is my game Robot Chess , a relatively simple game which allows you to use your hands to pick up and move around chess pieces as you play against a robotic AI opponent.

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Leapmotion

JULY 30, 2016

Creating new 3D hand assets for your Leap Motion projects can be a real challenge. Even if you’re a veteran modeler-rigger-animator, it’s a singular experience to bring hand models that you’ve been sculpting and rigging into VR and see them come to life with your own hand motions. Step 1: Setting the Scene.

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Leapmotion

JULY 14, 2018

VR is perhaps the ultimate example of technological isolation, where our link with the physical environment is almost totally severed. It will be up to developers and users to decide how deep they want to go. That’s the brief we’ve been working on at Leap Motion Design Research. A Design Framework for New Realities.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

My recent interest in virtual reality and Leap Motion input led to several interesting project ideas. For example, the developer could create renderers that display the menu segments as circles, or even spheres – all with different visual indicators, icons, etc. Developing with Leap Motion Tracking.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 11, 2016

Additionally, our pre-constructed UI Widgets demonstrate how to put together a diegetic UI Element that works well with compression and touch. We’ve include examples for Buttons, Sliders, and Scroll Panels in the module. This utility is used in each of our example Widgets. Start with examples. Quick Setup Guide.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

But for most businesses, knowing the DNA of the technology will be less important than knowing how to best use it. I am personally very, very honored to be on the advisory board of XR Bootcamp and helping them really develop the future of how organizations will train their staff on how to build XR technologies. Ferhan: Hi, Alan.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

But for most businesses, knowing the DNA of the technology will be less important than knowing how to best use it. I am personally very, very honored to be on the advisory board of XR Bootcamp and helping them really develop the future of how organizations will train their staff on how to build XR technologies. Ferhan: Hi, Alan.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

For a more in-depth look at these three layer depths, see Tessa Chung’s posts Making Sense of Skyboxes in VR Design and How to Design VR Skyboxes.). For example, the main focus in designing Blocks was the core interactions – pinch and grab. The post World Design: Setting the Stage appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

But for most businesses, knowing the DNA of the technology will be less important than knowing how to best use it. I am personally very, very honored to be on the advisory board of XR Bootcamp and helping them really develop the future of how organizations will train their staff on how to build XR technologies. Ferhan: Hi, Alan.

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