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Leap Motion's Interaction Engine Brings Natural Gestures into Virtual Worlds

Next Reality VR

Leap Motion created gesture control for all sorts of things, including virtual reality, long ago, but developers must build in support for their tracking peripheral to use its full potential. You're probably wondering what's an Interaction Engine, exactly? To make object.

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NoUI/ Zero UI Concept: What Can Stimulate AR and VR Further Development?

ARPost

Gestural interface; Source: Shutterstock.com. Same goes for gesture control, it is basically used for video game industry only. Project North Star; Source: Leap Motion. ent in the form of “masquerade masks” or animated emojis. And that’s it. Importance for the Future.

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Open Source Augmented Reality?

VRGuy

Illustration from Meta SpaceGlasses Can the OSVR project be used not just for virtual reality but also for augmented reality? Absolutely! Provide optimized connectors to popular engines such as Unity and Unreal. Support of multiple operating systems and hardware platforms.

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11 New #3DJam Demos: Droids and Discovery

Leapmotion

Control a Darby robot on the Raspberry Pi and a Rodeo machine with this project from Hirokazu Egashira and @routeflags. They form part of the unofficial Leap Motion Jp developers group. HomeBright is an easy-to-built hardware project that lets you access convenient controls to your home automation. HomeBright.

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5 Potential Gear VR ‘Killer Apps’ Demonstrated During Samsung Contest

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With a perspective like that in mind, the judges chose Virtual Reality Suite , lead developed by Markus Prenneis and Thomas Trzaska of present4D , as the contest’s grand prize winner. Or put more simply: A killer app “turns a technology into a product.”. Contest judges (left to right): Paul T. Follow the developers on Facebook.

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Leap Motion’s New 180-degree Hand-tracking Comes to Qualcomm’s Latest VRDK Headset

Road to VR

Qualcomm has debuted an updated version of their VR Headset Reference Design now with Leap Motion’s new 180-degree hand-tracking to bring gesture control to mobile VR headsets. The new headset and Leap Motion tracking module was shown off during last week’s GDC 2017.

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Massive XR Environments and Transforming Education with Alvin Wang Graylin

XR for Business Podcast

Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality. Alan: Today’s guest is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, and particular virtual reality, Mr. Alvin Wang-Graylin.