The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The event hosts people from very important companies like NVIDIA, VR Chat, The Khronos Group, Alibaba (there is Jack Ma!),

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Volkswagen Group is back again with yet another VR project that continues to prove just how much faith the German automaker truly has in the immersive medium. We’ve seen the company use the technology before on everything from collaborative group meetings between team members to a simulator that lets you drive an Audi in a sandbox track.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 21, 2017

strLast time, we looked at how an interactive VR sculpture could be created with the Leap Motion Graphic Renderer as part of an experiment in interaction design. The Leap Motion Interaction Engine provides the foundation for hand-centric VR interaction design. The initial function was a spherical layout function.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

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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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As mainstream VR/AR input continues to evolve – from the early days of gaze-only input to wand-style controllers and fully articulated hand tracking – so too are the virtual user interfaces we interact with. When we bring our hands into a virtual space, we also bring a lifetime’s worth of physical biases with us.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Ultrahaptics went on to raise $23 million, begin to interest car companies , and later absorb the much-hyped Leap Motion, which, it turns out, was a match made in heaven, by uniting both hand tracking and mid-air haptics. Also participating were existing shareholders Mayfair Equity Partners and IP Group plc.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2020

Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR industry standard, today announced that it has begun officially certifying products that correctly implement the OpenXR standard. Additionally, the group has added new extensions to the standard to support hand-tracking and eye-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

It is still not perfect ( Leap Motion is still more accurate), but surely it is a step forward from the Oculus Touch. Since we are talking about SDKs, Valve has just announced a new SDK to take in count hands tracking: SteamVR Skeletal Input. How to enter this group? SteamVR Skeletal Input (Image by Valve).

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 7, 2017

This week we hit the CES showfloor in Las Vegas with two missions: share our Mobile VR Platform with the world and play “spot Leap Motion in the wild.”. What is Leap Motion? We make technology for VR/AR that tracks the movement of your hands and fingers. All three are crucial for hands in VR.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 27, 2016

Interacting with Leap Motion. I chose to work with optical hand tracking using the Leap Motion Controller in order to perform gestures that were natural to our culture. Taking cues from the interior design concept of ‘vignettes,’ I grouped my environmental objects around each animal as a picture frame.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 28, 2015

Recently, we caught up with Vivid Vision co-founder James Blaha to ask him how he’s retraining people’s brains using VR and hand tracking technology. Using hand tracking, we can force people to judge depth with both eyes and reach out to exactly the distance they need to. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 3, 2023

On the last day, I tried many interesting technologies, but I selected two for this summary, which are the first two that I’ve tried: the new Leap Motion Controller by Ultraleap and the AR technology by LetinAR. You can see how it is in this picture, where I’ve put my hand for scale.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

All the people that were working on AR/VR inside Facebook now have a new group they belong to: “Facebook Reality Labs”. Ultraleap (previously known also as Leap Motion) has struck a great deal with Qualcomm. Thanks to it, the XR2 Reference Design will feature as official hands tracking the one created by UltraLeap.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner. Limit hand interactivity.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 25, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. Jody Medich is a UX designer and researcher who believes that the next giant leap in technology involves devices and interfaces that can “speak human.”

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Yes, so at the VEC – and at GDC – we actually announced our USDKs for hand tracking. But what they did was essentially brought two different groups of kids that were 12-to-13-year-old kids, and taught them basic physics, mechanics. And a week later, on the control group, was down to, I think it was a D+.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Yes, so at the VEC – and at GDC – we actually announced our USDKs for hand tracking. But what they did was essentially brought two different groups of kids that were 12-to-13-year-old kids, and taught them basic physics, mechanics. And a week later, on the control group, was down to, I think it was a D+.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. Hands tracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. This is a community effort, not handed down from some elder council in an imperial palace. I would love to see working groups formed to address areas of common interest. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction.

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