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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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An FUI designer, VR community leader and VR healthcare.

AllThingsVR

An FUI designer, VR community leader and VR healthcare strategist walk into a bar… …a virtual bar that is. We met to chat about the future of augmented reality, virtual reality and the newest features of Leap Motion’s hand tracking. Actually, more of a meditation room.

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5 Medical and Assistive Technologies Being Transformed with Leap Motion

Leapmotion

From the operating room to virtual reality, here are 5 ways that people are using Leap Motion tech for medical and assistive applications. Solution: One of TIME Magazine’s Top 25 Inventions of 2014, MotionSavvy’s UNI is a two-way communication tool for the deaf using Leap Motion and speech technologies.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. Something to note, all nominees had to be centered on a virtual reality experience, and not an augmented reality experience.

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Amy Peck (EndeavorVR) on Enterprises’ Slow Adoption of AR and the Promise in Education

The AR Show

Amy Peck is the founder & CEO of EndeavorVR, a strategy & consulting firm focused on Augmented and Virtual Reality. Amy has also worked in Business Development at Leap Motion, and more recently as the Chief Strategy Officer at Periscape VR, a location-based VR company.

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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.

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NextMind Review: select objects using your brain powers

The Ghost Howls

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. The sensors read all the brainwave data, and at the moment this data is abstracted to just give you an index of a selection. Hands-on with the demos.