Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A lot has been going on behind the scenes here at Leap Motion. We believe that technology has the power to augment human capabilities. It’s part hardware, part software, built from the ground up to tackle the unique challenges of hand tracking for VR. We’ve unlocked lower latency. Longer range.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Technology is like a flash in the darkness – long nights building towards an instant when suddenly everything is different. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

We all love to make speculations on the technology and I am no exception. Not because I am a genius, but because the technology is still evolving very slowly and so it is very predictable. Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. The most important news has been for sure the launch of the Magic Leap One.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Creating remote MR productions Hand Tracking Thanks to the release of the Oculus Quest, one of the most popular UI in XR today is the hand tracking input. The system is technically compatible with hand tracking, but it is not natively supported. Augmented reality (AR) is the future of Restaurant Menu?

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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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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

candidate in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Creativity, Technology, and the Arts. And although the fun factor and Star Wars association are surely enough to justify any number of grant hours dedicated to such pursuits, there are practical applications that also makes this technology rather attractive.

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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. The possible applications are endless.

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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. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog.

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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? motion sickness, dizziness, eye strain, etc…). All without leaving your editor.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. New augmented and virtual reality developers have little out-of-the-box support for this historically difficult technology,” adds Dan Duggan, a software engineer at Charles River.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

In particular, it envisions: XR headsets (especially AR ones) being tethered to the smartphone now; XR headsets wirelessly connected to the smartphone (via Wi-fi or similar technologies) in 1–4 years; Fully standalone lightweight XR headsets, connected via 5G, in 5–10 years. Unity launches MARS tools. Here you are the specs: CPU ?—?Snapdragon

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Varjo XR-4 series follows the highly successful XR-3 headsets, launched in 2020 , with more advanced graphics, tracking technology, and integration with the NVIDIA Omniverse. Inside-out tracking: Intelligent inside-out tracking and built-in Varjo controllers created with Razer.

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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

APRIL 17, 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 this post, we take a look at 4 ways that sound, VR, and motion controls can be a powerful combination. Tracking Boundaries. Ambiance and Mood. Extra Reading.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

” Head tracking is an essential part of all mixed reality technology, both VR and AR, and the so-called inside-out variety in a VR headset makes set up dramatically easier. “We’ve experimented with input devices communicating over Wi-Fi to the HoloLens and sending real-time X,Y,Z coordinates in Unity,” Zachary wrote.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

VR, AR and hand tracking are often considered to be futuristic technologies, but they also have the potential to be the easiest to use. This is the core of our mission at Leap Motion. The interface fades away, and it’s just you… in a space… exploring an exploded cat with your hands.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2021

Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. Yes, Three.js

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

VR has the power to transform our lives and connect us in new ways, while hand tracking lets you reach beyond the digital divide and take control. Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Leap Opticals. 3DUI: Three Dimensional User Interfaces. . ” Requires: Windows. Requires: Webcam.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since then, technology and technique have evolved in tandem – bringing us into greater heights of action and suspense, into deeper wells of horror and despair. Human beings are being filmed and rendered in engines like Unity with full 3D clarity. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

As the XR landscape continues to grow, accelerating towards an expected value of $300 billion by 2024, immersive technology is evolving at an amazing rate. Increasingly, vendors and innovators are searching for new and improved ways to immerse users in unique experiences, using powerful and disruptive technology.

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Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

Early last month, Leap Motion kicked off our internal hackathon with a round of pitch sessions. One of our tracking engineers suggested using our prototype Dragonfly module to augment a physical display with virtual widgets. Flat digital interfaces were not designed for hands. Leap Motion.

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Leapmotion

MAY 3, 2015

We all grew tired of talking about how we wanted to explore VR development, so we allocated several weeks to tinkering with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion — staffing one full-time developer and a few designers part-time. We got things started by downloading the most popular Oculus Rift / Leap Motion demos and giving them a try.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

BCIs are still in the early stages, and even if they are evolving at a good pace, the technology for “brain control” is still not here. A future runtime could offer more functionalities , a bit like it has happened with Leap Motion that in 2012 was a rough accessory and now is an amazing hands tracking device.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. It’s an expensive technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. It’s an expensive technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you've been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat's lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There's been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. It's an expensive technology. well, failing. well, even ODG.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. It’s an expensive technology.

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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. According to the latest rumors, all this technology in a single package is very hard to manufacture, and Apple is having problems with the production line.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community.

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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. Note that some assets (like Image Hands and Widgets) are not currently available for the Orion Unity Core Assets. User Interface Design. Ergonomics.

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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 allows applications to work without regards to the particular device or technology choice. For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The front features a glossy plastic lid , that can be removed to uncover the so-called “frunk”, a hole with a USB-3 port , that can be used to attach accessories like Leap Motion to the Index. So, I put my Valve Index, opened BigScreen and developed in Unity in VR for 4 hours. It uses SteamVR 2.0

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