Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward. Designed for the Oculus Rift, it’s available free for Mac and Windows on the Leap Motion App Store. What motivated you to create a sonic exploration app instead of a more traditional game experience?

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Simply take your smartphone and a headset and discover virtual spaces, games, and much more. With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. The former is connected to either a computer or a gaming console and delivers the most powerful VR experience.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. They couldn’t describe the game, but they revealed that it is astonishing on the graphical side and UX.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

In this series of articles, I want to talk about my experience there , giving you some highlights about the hardware I tried, the companies I met, etc… I want to let you feel as if you did this VR travel with me. In Taiwan, all western websites work and so you don’t need to set up a VPN just to use Google.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 22, 2014

Experimental headsets are changing how we see the world, either by creating the virtual worlds of our imaginations, like the Oculus Rift, or adding ghostly layers on top of the real world, like Google Glass. At the same time, GetVu wants to bring a new level of control to augmented reality with Leap Motion technology.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It is intriguing that many companies are already experimenting with this new chipset, and one of these partners is Niantic, that is thinking about going the AR hardware route after all its hard work on gelocalized AR games like Pokemon Go. The “End of The Year Sale” is offering great discounts on 29 great PSVR games.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2018

This is because Leap Motion has announced its v4 version of the tracking runtime and with it three demos to showcase the new tracking functionalities: Cat Explorer, Particles, and Paint. Cat Explorer is an educational app made to show you all the anatomy of a cat and it obviously employs Leap Motion as the only medium of interaction.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Simply take your smartphone and a headset and discover virtual spaces, games, and much more. With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. The former is connected to either a computer or a gaming console and delivers the most powerful VR experience.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. But it’s still incredible enough to give a taste of where it’s headed.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

This was an amazing idea because apart from being technically supercool, it let all Focus users have their controllers upgraded from 3DOF to 6DOF without having to change hardware. Really fantastic. But after the announcement at Vive Ecosystem Conference, we had no more info on it and this felt a bit strange.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

AI reconstruction of how the launch of the Deckard may happen The controllers are an optimized version of Valve Index Controllers , smaller and more reliable, even if I’m told that the headset can also track the hands thanks to an integrated Leap Motion controller.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

This is my first experience making a game, and I’m happy with how cool it is! Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Recommended: Google Chrome. Recommended: Google Chrome. I will soon replace the black blocks with 3D models of Chinese paint brush calligraphy strokes. Requires: Webcam.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This week I have been pretty busy working on our mixed reality fitness game that is very close to launch and in preparing some amazing articles for next week (I will publish a review of the Valve Index and a super-amazing interview to Jeri Ellsworth, the creator of TiltFive augmented reality glasses!) Its peculiarity? smartglasses).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Location-based games are already popular, with over a billion downloads of Pokemon Go in the three years since it launched, and over 20B kilometers walked playing the game. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Last week I told you that most probably I wouldn’t have written a Week Peek this Sunday because I’m very busy showcasing our game at the WCVRI exhibition in Nanchang. Image by Google). Google’s next flagship phone, the Pixel 4, won’t be compatible with Daydream View headset and Google has also stopped selling the Daydream View.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is now just the brand of a hardware product (for now) and nothing more. After a long silence, Respawn Entertainment has finally released some new info about the upcoming AAA VR game Medal Of Honor: Above and beyond. The game is coming during the Holidays 2020 and will feature amazing multiplayer features. (Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

Watching a movie from your Netflix app or playing some kind of games on a big screen in VR can be far more interesting than seeing it on a little device: you can feel yourself as being in a cinema. This is also an answer to Lenovo Mirage Solo, that lets you directly install apps from Google Play. The bomb feature n.2

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 20, 2017

The latest headset from the company shown at E3 last week promises integration with Valve’s SteamVR Tracking technology and support for both PC-based SteamVR games as well as Android VR content. Images provided by GameFace.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Unlike the Lucasfilm AR headset, which uses a smartphone to power it (like the Google Daydream or the Samsung Gear VR does), the company says this concept is a standalone, self-powered headset. But it seems like Lenovo’s interests aren’t just tied to hardware; they also hinted at an “AR platform” on their blog post.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. So we feel -- like you said -- this is software that really needs to be optimized for the hardware that it's working on. And then-- Varag: Especially because every maker has got to print hardware make-up, in a sense.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. So we feel -- like you said -- this is software that really needs to be optimized for the hardware that it's working on. Varag: Especially because every maker has got to print hardware make-up, in a sense.

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Leapmotion

MAY 15, 2015

At a recent Designers + Geeks talk , Jody Medich and Daniel Plemmons talked about some of the discoveries our team has made (and the VR best practices we’ve developed) while building VR experiences with the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller. Here’s what we’ve learned building menus for Leap Motion.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. So we feel -- like you said -- this is software that really needs to be optimized for the hardware that it's working on. Varag: Especially because every maker has got to print hardware make-up, in a sense.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

It also announced Pimax VR Station, which is described as a “console dedicated to playing VR”: it should be a dedicated computer to play VR games with Pimax headsets. This move shows that Somnium doesn’t only want to focus on its software, but it also wants to build a full ecosystem encompassing hardware and software.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

This is super cool for us Youtubers to record gameplay video and comment them on the fly Ability to apply a live overlay of yourself taken from the camera of your phone superimposed on the images of the game you are recording (at the moment only for iPhones). Google unveils Starline communication solution.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. The OSVR goggle – called the Hacker Development Kit – has seen several major hardware improvements. We see goggles, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs and body suits. It turns out that others share this vision.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content. The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

We are all ready to play it, and if you are not, you are still in time to pre-download the game , so that at the X time, you can immediately hit the “Play” button. The one that I link to you here is from a general gaming magazine and it awards HL-A a 9/10 mark. I’ll keep you posted!

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