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Leading Hand-tracking Company Ultraleap Raises $82 Million Investment

Road to VR

Formerly known as Ultrahaptics, Ultraleap was formed after the UK-based haptics company acquired leading hand-tracking company Leap Motion back in 2019. The new name clearly defined the merger’s unique combination of mid-air ultrasonic haptics now underpinned by some of the best hand-tracking tech in the industry.

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Design Sprints at Leap Motion: Crafting Reactive Behaviors with the Interaction Engine

Leapmotion

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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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

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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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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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

TechCrunch VR

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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Indie developer shares the lessons learned from publishing the first App Lab bundle

The Ghost Howls

Some weeks ago, a group of 12 indie development studios decided to launch the first bundle dedicated to App Lab experiences for Oculus Quest. Then the group came together, and one of us quickly edited a draft trailer. And we also used collaborative tools like Figma to produce covers, ads, as the launch.

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3 Robots About to Break Into Your Everyday Reality

Leapmotion

At Leap Motion, we’ve seen our fair share of impressive motion-controlled robots that will one day bring about the robocalypse. Future videos will demonstrate the laser system, sonar, visual system and face recognition, and the Leap Motion input – including a future “snapshot” gesture. Happy Halloween!