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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.21): Quest 2 released, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Leap Motion 2 on sale, and much more!

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It is a perfect strategy, that makes NVIDIA able to offer very comprehensive end-to-end solutions (e.g. an ARM chips can be installed on IoT sensors that communicate to a server where an NVIDIA card is used to perform machine learning on the data). You can finally buy the Leap Motion v2 accessory. Become my 10th supporter!!

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Qualcomm’s Standalone VR Is Getting Embedded Leap Motion Hand Tracking

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Thankfully, the team at Leap Motion have been working tirelessly to deliver hand tracking and late last year launched their much more compact hand tracking solution specifically aimed at mobile form factors. The real improvements are increased performance, power savings and support for Leap Motion.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

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He also said that other OEMs are going to launch headsets with AVP-matching hardware for $1500 this year. Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. Matt Miesnieks said that the rumor aligns with some things he heard.

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We need camera access to unleash the full potential of Mixed Reality

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It would be ideal to copy the strategies that Android already employs on the phones , where a popup asks you if you want to give some permissions to the app that you have just opened. If you use a Leap Motion controller, you should be able to grab the feed of its cameras according to its docs. in the toilet).

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EXCLUSIVE: First details about Valve Deckard have been leaked

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AI reconstruction of how the launch of the Deckard may happen The controllers are an optimized version of Valve Index Controllers , smaller and more reliable, even if I’m told that the headset can also track the hands thanks to an integrated Leap Motion controller.

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6 Principles of Leap Motion Interaction Design

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In the process of building applications and various UX experiments at Leap Motion, we’ve come up with a useful set of heuristics to help us critically evaluate our gesture and interaction designs. The team at Leap Motion is constantly working to improve the accuracy and consistency of our tracking technology.

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SIGGRAPH 2017: Optitrack Reveals Tracking Puck For Full-Body VR Immersion

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Two more Optitrack pucks on each hand or arm and the use of Leap Motion (which recently got big funding ) or gloves could provide the final bit of finger tracking for complete full-body immersion. HTC is developing its own tracking puck that’s already been distributed to developers that could perform many of these same functions.

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