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VR Fitness Startup YUR Secures $1.1M Investment, Releases Calorie-counting Software for Quest

Road to VR

A San Francisco-based startup, YUR (pronounced “why you are,”) was founded in early 2019 by Cix Liv and Dilan Shah. Having launched its pilot program on PC VR earlier this year, YUR is now officially making its software available on Oculus Quest. You won’t find YUR on the Oculus Store though, at least not yet.

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Newsletter 56 – Futuristic car concepts and gamifying physical therapy

Leapmotion

What if casual gaming could help people suffering from physical injuries recover faster? of Airspace Home and the Leap Motion software. The Leap Motion Software and Airspace Home v1.2 But what if you used casual gaming techniques to make repetitive actions fun? San Francisco, CA. Featured News.

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Look and Reach into Another Layer of Reality

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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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Experiential Technology Event Shows How Far VR Has To Go

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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. Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. It showed me that virtual reality has only scratched the surface.

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Twist the Gears of a Massive VR Music Engine with Carillon

Leapmotion

Using technology like the Leap Motion Controller allows us to use our hands to directly engage virtual instruments, from the plucking of a virtual string to the casting of a sonic fireball. Carillon was really built for VR: the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller are key components in the work.

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Can VR Change How Your Brain Works?

Leapmotion

It’s very challenging to balance the requirements of the training with fun game mechanics. We think that making the game fun, and getting people into “flow” where they are just reacting and enjoying themselves is critical to the success of the training. What’s the role of hand controls in the game? What does it offer players?

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Weightless Creator Martin Schubert on Designing a Zero-Gravity Sci-Fi Playground

Leapmotion

These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward. It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. Alan Watts was an influential philosopher in the ‘60s in San Francisco who popularized Eastern philosophy to a Western audience.