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

The Ghost Howls

For instance, one classical example of our future in MR is having a virtual assistant that provides you with suggestions related to what you are doing. Another example could be an educational experience that trains the user in doing something (e.g. And recently Leap Motion has become compatible with standalone headsets like Pico ones.

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The Benefits of Virtual Reality in Banking

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For example, it can be used to teach young adults about financial responsibility. Saatchi & Saatchi Sri Lanka , for example, made a virtual reality campaign for Hatton National Bank in 2015. High-resolution imagery and low-latency head-tracking brought people into a virtual environment. They called it New World Banking.

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Leap Motion’s ‘Interaction Engine’ Unlocks More Natural Human Input for VR

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Leap Motion has announced it’s to early access to the beta of its Interaction Engine , a set of systems designed to help developers implement compelling, realistic and hopefully frustration-free input with just their hands.

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

The Ghost Howls

Some of this infrastructure and requirements will be ushered in by the arrival of low-latency, wireless networking (5G will serve as an enabling tech), while others are still being developed. Header image by Leap Motion). The AR cloud is much more rich and complex than a simple database. There are broad possibilities here.

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Intel’s Project Alloy Round 2: RealSense Hand-Tracking and Optimized Software

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I only tried the hand tracking briefly and haven’t tried a comparable sculpting demo with Leap Motion, but Intel’s controller-less VR hand tracking showed some of the smallest movements of my finger resulting in notable change in the shape of the tube. A cube, for example, would noticeably stretch when you turned your head.

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The Importance of Hand Tracking UX Design

The Ghost Howls

For example, you can use Scale to change the cube’s dimensions and scroll to the bottom to add a Rigidbody so you can interact with the object you select. Due to the extra calculations happening in hand-tracking, it has higher latency compared to controllers. Secondly, you have latency. But for now, it has limitations.

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Building Graffiti 3D: A Journey through Space and Design

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So I switched to the Leap Motion Controller and quickly got my hands in my application. The new Arm HUD Widget by Leap Motion looked good, but I knew it wouldn’t be released for some time. For example, I released an “update” early on that horribly crippled the framerate of the application.