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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. Having haptic sensation on the palm is very important to increase the sense of presence when you are holding a tool in your hand.

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How Sound Design Can Add Texture To A Virtual World

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For this reason, sound is more than just an immersive tool – how (and where) objects around you sound has an enormous effect on your understanding of where they are, especially when you’re not looking at them. In the real world, sound follows the inverse square law – getting quieter as the source gets farther away.

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How to fix Vive controllers not working inside SteamVR games

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If SteamVR apps can’t detect your Vive controllers or you see your Vive/Oculus controllers fixed on a point on the ground in the virtual world without any possibility to move them, go on reading! There are anyway other tools that can help in configuring it properly. Leap Motion driver and runtime.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

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Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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Stereopsia report / 1: hands-on with Presenz, Antilatency, full-body on Quest and more!

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This startup makes a nice multiplayer full-body VR game called Hide and Freeze VR , described this way: “Players take turns in playing hider or seeker. If you get frozen you are still part of the game as you can still observe and call out to other hiders to unfreeze you.”. A photo of the game engine offered by Altheria Solutions.

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UltraLeap Gemini review: use both hands in VR!

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One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog. If you want, you can find it here below!

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

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It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. Keep in mind that this device has a pixel density far superior even to the one of the Valve Index, so it is perfect not only for gaming but also for prototyping, design and architecture. What will happen next? Top news of the week. Image by HP). Picture 2).