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Leap Motion Teases ‘Augmented Office’ With Project North Star AR Dev Kit

VRScout

In a series of posts made to the official Leap Motion Twitter account , the company gave a behind-the-scenes sneak peek at a user interface referred to as the “augmented office.” While we’re excited to share the hardware behind our AR work, it’s the experience that matters most,” stated Leap Motion in a tweet.

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Leap Motion Reveals Project North Star, an Open-source Wide FOV AR Headset Dev Kit

Road to VR

Over the last few weeks, Leap Motion has been teasing some very compelling AR interface prototypes, demonstrated on an unknown headset. Today the company reveals that the headset is a prototype dev kit, designed in-house, offering a combined 100 degree field of view, low latency, and high resolution. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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Report: Apple AR Headset Could Rely on iPhone for Rendering & Connectivity

Road to VR

SEE ALSO Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through. Kuo doesn’t mention whether this connection will be a wired or wireless at this point, although the latter would require a compelling leap in streaming tech to say the least.

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How to Upgrade to the Orion Core Unity Assets

Leapmotion

Delete the current Leap Motion assets from your project. LeapImageRetriever: Responsible for uploading the controller’s video passthrough and other relevant image information to the graphics card. Also responsible for doing the conversion from the Leap Motion coordinate space to the Unity coordinate space.

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Our Journey to the North Star

Leapmotion

The vertical field of view struck us most of all; we could now look down with our eyes, put our hands at our chests and still see augmented information overlaid on top of our hands. The post Our Journey to the North Star appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Importance of Hand Tracking UX Design

The Ghost Howls

Use that time to read the overview and package information. Due to the extra calculations happening in hand-tracking, it has higher latency compared to controllers. Precision and latency are the main factors in VR/AR hand-tracking user experience. Secondly, you have latency. The installation will take a while to complete.

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NextMind Review: select objects using your brain powers

The Ghost Howls

PS Before starting, would you mind joining my Patreon so that to support my hard work in informing the XR communities with detailed reviews like this one?]. When you’re focusing your attention on an object (so it is on your fovea), your eyes send the information of what they’re seeing to your brain. NextMind Video Review.