Remove Hand tracking Remove Leap Motion Remove San Francisco Remove Virtual Reality
article thumbnail

We Tried Leap Motion’s New Hand Tracking Module On Gear VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Leap Motion is a young technology company that is perhaps best known at this point for what it sells at your local Best Buy. virtual reality peripheral that can be mounted onto an Oculus Rift headset. This device then uses infrared scanning technology to detect the position of your hands in 3D space.

article thumbnail

Stereo Labs Unveils ‘Linq’ – A Mixed Reality Headset For The Living Room

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Most high-end virtual reality headsets today use what’s called outside-in positional tracking. This take on AR is what Oculus’ chief scientist, Michael Abrash called “ Augmented Virtual Reality. Linq’s system for hand tracking is also unique.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Experiential Technology Event Shows How Far VR Has To Go

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. It showed me that virtual reality has only scratched the surface. Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR.

article thumbnail

Can VR Change How Your Brain Works?

Leapmotion

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.

article thumbnail

Charting the Course for Mobile VR

Leapmotion

We’ve joined forces with Qualcomm Technologies to combine their Snapdragon 835 mobile platform with our embedded hand tracking technology so that people can interact with mobile VR content using their bare hands. Your hands should be free to reach directly into #MobileVR.

Course 45