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5 Medical and Assistive Technologies Being Transformed with Leap Motion

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From the operating room to virtual reality, here are 5 ways that people are using Leap Motion tech for medical and assistive applications. Solution: One of TIME Magazine’s Top 25 Inventions of 2014, MotionSavvy’s UNI is a two-way communication tool for the deaf using Leap Motion and speech technologies.

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Design Sprints at Leap Motion: Crafting Reactive Behaviors with the Interaction Engine

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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. SculptureInteraction: Using Interaction Engine Callbacks.

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4 Ways to Hack Your Brain with VR

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That’s the thinking behind Vivid Vision (formerly known as Diplopia ), who are gamifying rehabilitation exercises with the hope of helping millions of people worldwide. Isaac Cohen’s Rainbow Membrane is an artistic exploration of synesthesia , the blurring of sight and sound, where you can stroke a virtual texture to create music.

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AWE 2023 Day 3: Ultraleap new sensor, LetinAR, and the end of the event

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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. It worked fairly well.

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Pokémon Go Is a Game-Changer, What Can Augmented Reality Do Next?

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Picking up awards at two industry shows, VR Roulette combined Oculus Rift and Leap Motion controller s to plunge players into a virtually interactive casino. Although still a novel concept, the industry is clearly taking altered realities seriously. . “ Slot Machine ” ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) by Jeff Kubina.

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All the best AR and VR news from CES 2019

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This represents the current status of the technology, that is evolving, but has still not reached the inflection point to become mainstream (as I have already told you in my 2019 predictions about augmented and virtual reality ). The RealMax Qian is very interesting and the reviews are quite positive. Before thinking about VR 2.0,

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