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#BuildYourNorthStar Workshop Brings AR to Life in 48 Hours

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But at the world’s first #BuildYourNorthStar workshop, over 20 participants built their own open-source Project North Star headsets in just 48 hours – using components now available to everyone. The workshop took place in Sunnyvale, CA, just after AWE. In support of the event, our team donated Leap Motion Controllers.

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Newsletter 51 – #WWYL? How Hardware Hacks can Change the World

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Find out this week on Developer Labs with a retro art experiment and how hardware hacking can change the world. To take control of your own hardware integrations, check out Cylon.js to hack an Arduino. We’ve already seen Christmas lights , laser turrets , and vehicles – what would you Leap? Leap Motion at PennApps.

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Immersive Architecture is the event all architects were waiting for

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It will start on May, 31st and end on June, 2nd 2018 and will feature conferences and workshops. What kind of conferences and workshops will people be able to attend? The workshops will allow attendees to achieve surprising results thanks to highly skilled and experienced trainers. What is the purpose of the event?

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3D Jam: Now with Over $75K in Prizes!

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Everyone who signs up for the 3D Jam gets a special hardware discount code when they register, and teams who complete their submission by the November 9th deadline get their hardware cost refunded. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. The competition runs for 6 weeks, with registration open now. 9 Unity Pro licenses.

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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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The Importance of Hand Tracking UX Design

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If you’re looking to learn more about AR/VR design or development , check our free XR workshops and courses at Circuit Stream. On the other hand, controllers have input limitations that hand-tracking doesn’t have; your design is limited to the hardware manufacturer’s buttons. The image above is a Leap Motion hand-tracking demo.

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Build-a-Button Workshop: VR Interaction Design from the Ground Up

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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.