The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

1” is not the new name of a son of Elon Musk, but it is the (questionable) name of a new opensource AR headset by Combine Reality, based on Leap Motion’s North Star reference design. It seems a clone of the Vive Focus Plus, and this is because actually it is based on a reference design provided by HTC. “CR Deck Mk.1”

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

This makes the transition from seated to standing experience seamless, but requires environmental references to fade in, making the vertical movement evident and maintaining the orientation. We also have some new interactions that are native to immersive media: the sphere handle and the hand effector itself.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 7, 2017

This week we hit the CES showfloor in Las Vegas with two missions: share our Mobile VR Platform with the world and play “spot Leap Motion in the wild.”. What is Leap Motion? But the magic and power of immersive VR comes from a sense of presence and full embodiment. — LeapMotion (@LeapMotion) January 6, 2017.

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Road to VR

MARCH 10, 2017

Qualcomm has debuted an updated version of their VR Headset Reference Design now with Leap Motion’s new 180-degree hand-tracking to bring gesture control to mobile VR headsets. The new headset and Leap Motion tracking module was shown off during last week’s GDC 2017.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

OC5 celebrates the last 5 years of virtual reality breakthroughs and gives us a glimpse of what’s to come in the next five years. Standalone virtual reality headsets are an all-in-one device that can power virtual reality on their own, with no computer or phone tethering needed. Google Cardboard ($15) .

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Virtual reality is a world of specters, filled with sights and sounds that offer no physical resistance when you reach towards them. But in VR, human movement cannot be arbitrarily limited in VR without resulting in a disastrous loss of immersion. See also Jonathan Ravasz’s post Design Practices in Virtual Reality.).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

It will be the conference through which Facebook will talk about its most innovative products and research about immersive realities and beyond. All the people that were working on AR/VR inside Facebook now have a new group they belong to: “Facebook Reality Labs”. You can now try Google’s volumetric videos.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The headsets are something we have never seen before and one of them clearly features a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) with the Valve logo on and from that moment on, the hype regarding an upcoming Valve virtual reality HMD has risen. The photos. And until now, things have goon smoothly this way.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Fallout 4 (2015), Bethesda’s beloved post-apocalyptic open world RPG, is now in VR, letting you stalk the Wasteland as the sole survivor of Vault 111 from the immersive point of view of the HTC Vive headset. SEE ALSO 'Skyrim VR' Review – The Other Side of the Immersion Equation.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. For example, pointing at oneself when referring to another person feels foreign. Responsive gestures occur in response to the ergonomics and affordances of specific objects.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

This work makes me understand why Leap Motion has changed completely business model and is not selling the second version of its device as an accessory: soon all headsets will integrate hand tracking out of the box. Do you remember the Surround360 camera reference designs that Facebook created to let people record 6DOF videos?

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

This year’s Raindance Film Festival in London showcased an amazing selection of immersive stories. You don a Vive Pro headset, equipped with leap-motion sensors for hand tracking, and are also able to communicate with your partner via voice. Yet that lack of over-the-top glamour actually suits it very well.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. Increased Device Diversity leads to more Choices for Customers Trends An avalanche of new virtual reality devices arrived. We see goggles, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs and body suits.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Let’s start with the specs set, so that you can keep them as a reference: Headset: Display resolution : 1,440 × 1,600 per eye Display type : ultra-low persistence LCD Refresh-rate : 120 Hz (with optional 80/90/144Hz modes) FOV : around 130 degrees IPD Adjustment : hardware. tracking technology, the best in class in virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

The documentation was the same as before, if not for the fact that in the page about headset Input page, there was also a reference to “Oculus Jedi” controllers. I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions. Some XR fun.

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