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Leap Motion Grabs $50M Investment for Class-leading Hand-tracking Tech

Road to VR

Leap Motion, a veteran player in the virtual reality sector (having been founded two years ahead of Oculus), has announced the closure of a Series C investment round totaling $50 million. However, one place in VR still seems like a potential sweet spot for Leap Motion’s hand-tracking tech: mobile.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

Oculus – Rift. Leap MotionLeap Motion. Oculus – Touch. Nominees for Best use of VR in Healthcare. HTC – Vive. Razer – OSVR. Sony – Playstation VR. Starbreeze – StarVR. Nominees for Mobile Headset of the Year. Merge VR – Goggles. Homido – V2.

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Experiential Technology Event Shows How Far VR Has To Go

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. The headset used sensors to detect my fingers, using software from Leap Motion. It reminded me of a speech by Mike Abrash , chief scientist at Oculus, speaking last fall. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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NextMind Review: select objects using your brain powers

The Ghost Howls

This means that at the moment you can not use NextMind with the Oculus Quest standalone (you can use it with Quest + Link, of course). 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.