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New Leap Motion 2 Brings High-end Hand-tracking to Standalone Headsets

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10 years after the launch of Leap Motion—which garnered praise for offering some of the best hand-tracking in the industry—the company has announced a next-generation version of the device which now supports standalone XR headsets in addition to Windows and MacOS.

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Ultrahaptics Acquires Leap Motion for a Reported $30M

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Leap Motion, the pioneer in optical hand-tracking, has been acquired by Ultrahaptics, the enterprise-focused immersive haptics company. According to the Wall Street Journal , Ultrahaptics reportedly acquired Leap Motion for approximately $30 million. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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Leap Motion Update Improves Physics, Supports Rift And Vive Controllers

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Fully functioning hand-tracking might be a ways off from becoming the standard form of VR input, but Leap Motion is making a big step toward that future today, taking its Interaction development engine to 1.0 Perhaps the most exciting addition to the engine, though, is Oculus Touch and Vive controller support.

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Ultraleap Stereo IR 170 review: use your hands naturally in VR!

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I have appreciated it a lot, so I thought it could have been a cool idea to make a post for you to describe how it is and compare it with the previous Leap Motion controller. Some weeks ago, I have reviewed the new Leap Motion Gemini (v5) runtime , and I have appreciated its robustness. Are you in?

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Open-Source VIRTUOSO SDK for Unreal Engine – a Standard Framework for XR Development

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Developers of immersive games and apps, rejoice! Immersive experiences are in greater demand in all fields: for home entertainment, for training in various industries, and for retail and marketing. Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest. Leap Motion. VIRTUOSO SDK (VSDK): Making XR Development More Streamlined.

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A Hands on Look at the State of Input in VR

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Oculus Touch controllers were just announced to ship late in 2016. Xbox gamepads shipped with the Oculus Rift headset. You can now interact with virtual objects and environments like never before, taking immersion to an entirely new level. Oculus Go Controller. Oculus Touch hand controllers. Xbox controller.

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10 Projects That Have Us Excited About the Next Generation of VR & AR

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Oculus Half Dome Prototype. Prior to launch the first consumer Rift headset, Oculus had a long history of showing prototypes and development kits. Following the launch of the Rift, Oculus kept their R&D efforts on future PC headsets mostly secretive. Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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