Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has kicked off Oculus Connect 6 with several exciting announcements, the biggest being an update for Oculus Quest which will see hand-tracking added to the system in 2020. Facebook Reality Labs has achieved this using AI and neural networks to recognise your hands.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional Leap Motion v1 controller + Leap Motion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for Leap Motion. Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for Leap Motion.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Click To Tweet Leap Motion goes mobile. 5: The next generation of mobile VR headsets will feature new sensors with higher performance, lower power, and 180×180 degrees of tracking. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. Orion: next-generation hand tracking for VR.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

It is required to set up tracking, bindings, and several SDKs if you want to work on multiple platforms. Like every open source project, several of its scripts are interdependent and they require some time to fully understand how to combine them. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings?

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2018

As part of its interactive design sprints, Leap Motion , creators of the hand-tracking peripheral of the same name, prototyped three ways of effectively interacting with distant objects in VR. Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Guest Article by Barrett Fox & Martin Schubert.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

The headset should also provide hand tracking, eye tracking and reverse passthrough , so people should be able to see the eye of the wearer. They are dubbed “Meta Touch Plus”, and they work (as I predicted last week) by fusing the data of IMU, IR LED tracking, and hand tracking together.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion. Until that happens though, it’s challenging for developers to design the basic capabilities, interfaces, and interactions that will define AR experiences—just as its taken several years for VR developers to learn how to create compelling VR content.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 20, 2022

Additionally, hand-tracking is getting an expanded, gesture-based menu. Beyond choosing to open the usual Oculus menu you’ll also be able to move your pinched hand to select other actions like taking a screenshot or activating voice commands. Here’s how: How to Update Quest and Quest 2.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

At Leap Motion, we believe that the next wave of technological interfaces will rely on the original human operating system: your hands. Whether you’re giving people the power to grab a skeleton , reaching into a human heart , or teaching anyone how to program , hands are powerful. Getting Started with Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. Originally I was going to make a standalone device which hooked everything up to a Nvidia Jetson Nano that could be worn on your belt (think Magic Leap One). How can the community help you for this project?

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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. VR Sculpture Layout and Control.

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. During a demo on stage, it has been shown that the hands are the primary means of interface with the UI of HoloLens 2. Eye tracking. Real-time tracking. Really kudos to them.

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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. Of course, one of the key drivers of this touchless technology is of course The Great Pandemic.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Combined with hand tracking and visual feedback, sound even has the power to create the illusion of tactile sensation. Our hand tracking technology can only track what it can see, so you may want to design interaction sounds that fade out as users approach the edge of the tracking field of view.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 6, 2018

At Leap Motion, we envision a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. At the heart of this experience is hand tracking, which unlocks interactions uniquely suited to virtual and augmented reality. As a result, we used our next-generation ultra-wide tracking module.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Then, as usual, John Carmack made his amazing unscripted talk where he detailed how building the “metaverse” is not a matter of doing some kind of high-level dream, but it is a very practical problem of understanding how to actually implement the building blocks of it by optimizing and overcoming the limitations of current technology.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

But at the same time, some people that have tried it are enjoying their time there , and everyone praises the creation tools that let you create nice interactive worlds with ease and without knowing how to code. Ultraleap (previously known also as Leap Motion) has struck a great deal with Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset. I hate this.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

More info (Sundance Film Festival in WebXR) More info (The best of Sundance) More info (How to access Sundance Festival) More info (No Proscenium’s diaries about Sundance, with many reviews). After stepping down from the role of CEO of Magic Leap, Rony Abovitz has started a new venture called Sun And Thunder about digital beings.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Slider – User interface slider for altering settings that support direct hand tracking. Tooltip – Annotation user interface includes a flexible anchor/pivot mechanism for tagging motion controllers and other items.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? If you speak Italian, watch the video and then subscribe to Gianluigi’s channel!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Facebook has deep expertise on AR and VR (I think we all know it), while Luxottica, that is the worldwide leader in glasses manufacturing (it is the brand behind Rayban, for instance), for sure knows how to create glasses that consumers want to wear. And then there will be Michael Abrash and John Carmack! HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 13, 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. As an optical motion tracking platform , the Leap Motion Controller is fundamentally different from handheld controllers in many ways.

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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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Leapmotion

APRIL 29, 2015

As a human, you’re not born with an intuitive knowledge of what a teapot does, or how to use it. This means that its physical appearance guides how you use it. We instinctively know how. By thinking about how you experience this in everyday life, you can bring this power into VR. Leap Motion VR Design Best Practices.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2015

As part of our global tour for the Leap Motion 3D Jam , we’re at Berlin’s Game Science Centre to take developers through our SDK and building with the latest VR tools. Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. Why Hands in VR? Hey everyone! Escaping from Flatland.

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Leapmotion

MAY 1, 2015

From the mouse and touchscreen, to hand tracking platforms like the Leap Motion Controller, the design of UI elements like the humble button is shaped by the hardware and how we use it. For Leap Motion and VR, we recommend that a single finger target should be no smaller than 20 mm in real-world size.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Mova will be a 6DOF headset with 2 tracking cameras, working natively only with hands tracking (there is a controller for fallback, though). Controllers are fundamental for interactions in most VR experiences and hands tracking is only good for watching videos, go on social XR worlds, and play simple games.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

4 Design Problems for VR Tracking (And How to Solve Them). Fictional UIs vs. Today’s Motion Controls. With APIs for six programming languages and dozens of platform integrations, the Leap Motion SDK has everything you need to get started. VR Best Practices Guidelines. Thinking Outside the Mouse. LeapJS and WebVR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

This realism is offered through three main features: Fingers tracking : Senseglove can detect the orientation of your hand and also the bending angle of your fingers. It can so be used as a hand tracking device; Vibrotactile feedback : SenseGlove has some motors that can vibrate so that you feel vibrations on your fingertips.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. My first major project was Battleship VR , which was intended to investigate UI interaction with finger tracking. What do VR and hand tracking each add to the experience of seeing and disassembling a thing in mid-air?

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Leapmotion

JUNE 11, 2016

One of the goals of our module releases is to provide you with the tools for interpreting and using hand tracking data to make building hand-enabled experiences faster and easier. By using the new LeapEventSystem prefab, developers can easily use their old worldspace user-interfaces and menus with hand tracking.

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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. Hand-Occluded Objects.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 9, 2016

Nonverbal communication has been huge for us, where we can have people wave, give the Fonzi ‘eyyyy, air quotes, thumbs up… especially with Leap Motion Orion. For folks to talk with their hands, it’s definitely a big add as far as making that connection and really seeing that person as another human behind behind the avatar.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

Have you seen how many new features? Let’s start with something easy: do you remember my article on how to stream the content of the Focus on an external screen? Furthermore, the accuracy has to be evaluated … hand tracking is damn hard and we don’t want our virtual controller to jitter.

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