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Leap Motion Raises $50 Million For Its Finger Tracking Technology

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VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. Just last week we learned about Facebook’s plan for a $200 headset that occupies the low end of the market while Google continues work on a six degrees of freedom standalone headset.

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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. Google Maps in AR).

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Design Sprints at Leap Motion: A Playground of 3D User Interfaces

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Click To Tweet When someone first puts on a Leap Motion-enabled VR headset, it often seems like they’re rediscovering how to use their own hands. Interacting with just the tip of a thumb on a small trackball, and a whole group spinning a Kugel Fountain. From Flat Screens to VR Interfaces. In a sense, they are.

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The 2016 Proto Awards: See Who Took Home VR’s Biggest Honors

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Pearl – Google Spotlight Studios. Tilt Brush – Google. Tilt Brush – Google (Winner) . Blocks – Leap Motion. Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories (Winner). Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories. Kiya – Emblematic Group. Best Overall: Tilt Brush – Google (Winner) . Speech Center VR – Cerevrum Inc.

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WCVRI Day 1: Hands-on RealMax AR glasses and Droolon F1 eye tracking!

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Even with the organizers of the event, I have to speak mostly in Chinese (hence my headache) and use a lot of Baidu Fanyi (the Chinese counterpart of Google Translate). RealMax can mount a Leap Motion device, so you have the power of using naturally your hands to interact with AR elements. Leap Motion) on the same headset.

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2016’s Proto Award Winners Revealed, Tilt Brush Receives Top Honour

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The annual Proto Awards, set up to highlight and honour the best and brightest the VR industry has to offer, is over for another year, with Google’s Tilt Brush walking away as the overall winner. Pearl – Google Spotlight Studios. Tilt Brush – Google. Most Innovative: Tilt Brush – Google (Winner). The Lab – Valve.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.22): Sony reveals PSVR2 controllers, FRL shows the wristband of the future, and more!

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It seems cool, but I would like to try it to believe in it: all the times that someone promised me some kind of sensory magic, it never turned out so good as they told me (like with the phantom touch sensation that Leap Motion told me about ). Google halves its revenues on the Play Store.

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