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The Design Process Behind Itadakimasu!

Leapmotion

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. PARO is an advanced interactive robot used in hospitals and extended care facilities in Japan and Europe. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Japan Joins Project North Star

Leapmotion

Like the first chocolate waterfall outside of Willy Wonka’s factory, now the first North Star-style headsets outside our lab have been born – in Japan. Developer group exiii shared their experience on their blog along with a build guide, which uses off-the-shelf components. Recently we caught up with them. You can contact us here.

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SIF: Mandala mixes interactive theater with VR, my experience with redirected walking and much more!

The Ghost Howls

She asked us who was going to lead the group and after some seconds in which we all looked in the eyes of the others hoping for someone else to propose, I decided to be the leader. Because I told that I was the leader, throughout the whole experience I thought that I had to lead the group, take initiative and protect my team.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

There are also the underlying depth mapping systems such as Intel RealSense, Microsoft Kinect, Leap Motion, Occipital, Apple TrueDepth (with related acquisitions like PrimeSense and LinX), Nimble VR (acquired by Facebook), and Apple’s predicted move into ultra-wideband spatial sensing with the U1 chip announced as part of the iPhone 11 launch.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.31): Oculus becomes Facebook Reality Labs, Horizon gets revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

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. This was the previous name of the AR/VR research division guided by Abrash, that now gets rebranded as “FRL Research”.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. She is one of the co-founders of the Women in VR meet up group, an XR journalist for two and half years, and has worked on creating, developing, and using immersive technologies for various companies and brands. The group now has over 5000 artists.