ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

It now supports Oculus Quest, HTC Vive and UltraLeap (former Leap Motion) systems of skeletal hand tracking for interactions based on realistic, and customizable, hand poses. VRTK proposes a simple grab system that can be coupled with the physic engine of Unity to define the desired behavior of the interaction you are creating.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Theoretically, the SenseGlove can be used outside VR, but practically speaking it is inside the virtual reality that it shines , because it is able to give more realism to your VR experiences by offering more realistic touch sensations. This is good to give some tactile information, making you feel the texture of objects.

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Leapmotion

JULY 10, 2015

Have you ever received an MRI scan back from the lab and thought to yourself, “I’m not sure how even a medical professional could derive any insightful information from this blast of murky images?” Based on this information, a matrix can be drawn of all the connected regions. Leap Motion is a great tool for this.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Developers can develop AR experiences with Zappar using the tool they like the most : Unity, native Javascript, A-frame, C++. Unity launches MARS tools. After many months of teasing them, Unity has finally launched the MARS tools, a suite of tools to build easily Augmented Reality experiences in Unity without knowing how to code.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

But now a new report from The Information informs us that it is also building its own operating system for those glasses, and it won’t be based on Android (like most of the operating systems for mobile devices, including standalone headsets), but made entirely custom. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Facebook has acquired Ctrl+Labs some years ago, and now it is using its expertise to create a wristband that can sense the motion information that your brain is sending to your hands. The mystery of Virtual Reality support on Xbox continues with a new chapter of the saga. News worth a mention. Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. Table of Contents.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

“I’ve worked on front-end web applications, middleware, server software and databases, but the most fun I’ve had in recent years has been with the Unity game engine. The Earth Elevator makes several stops along the way to provide you with information and time to look around. Requires: Windows, Mac. HomeBright. Laser Tanks!

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media."

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Building augmented reality demos in Unity with North Star is Graham’s first time programming. Click To Tweet By starting a new sharing site – Pumori.io , named after a Himalayan mountain – Graham hopes to collaborate with the open source AR community to explore and create new ways of manipulating information.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

And wow, there are a few pieces of information that are really cool… I’ve got to know that the development of Deckard has been a bit troubled because the headset has been re-engineered a few times. It seems that Valve is going to introduce a new term to define its virtual reality: Cyberspace.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 27, 2016

Interacting with Leap Motion. I chose to work with optical hand tracking using the Leap Motion Controller in order to perform gestures that were natural to our culture. So not only was it pleasing to look at, but it conveyed the necessary information, as well. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. What do virtual reality and outer space have in common? I think everyone wants to experience floating weightlessly in orbit or outer space and for the majority of people virtual reality is the closest they’ll ever get to the real thing.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

. “To improve the usability of virtual keyboards for text input,” says creator Soma, “I investigated key selection methods and shapes and layouts of virtual keys, then proposed a new user interface design utilizing tip pinch, and implemented a prototype application. ” Requires: Windows.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 15, 2018

How could we place, stack, and assemble virtual objects quickly and accurately while preserving the nuance and richness of full physics simulation? Check out our results below or download the example demo from the Leap Motion Gallery. Photo credits: Leap Motion, CanStock, Medium, Google, Sunghoon Jung, Epic Games.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

These questions are informed by the physical structure of the space, and in turn identify problems (and potential solutions) with that space. To create VR Cockpit , our team rapidly designed different geometric models in Maya and exported them to Unity. The post World Design: Setting the Stage appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

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.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 18, 2015

Virtual reality allows us to create experiences that wouldn’t be possible in the real world, so you can play around inside of a cell, observing how its biochemistry reacts to little changes you make (like a sandbox game, but based on facts!) Exploring what you want to explore, not because you have to, but because it’s fun.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Click To Tweet The Leap Motion Interaction Engine lets developers give their virtual objects the ability to be picked up, thrown, nudged, swatted, smooshed, or poked. Rapid Prototyping and Development at Leap Motion. This philosophy informs everything we do, from VR design sprints to our internal hackathons.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). What virtual avatars, creatures, information layers or interactive components are here. “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

For the array of new 3D input devices, especially in virtual reality, the lack of options and standards can create significant development challenges. Yesterday, I introduced you to Hovercast – a hand-controlled menu interface for virtual reality environments. Where possible, use simple hand motions and reliable gestures.

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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. Note that some assets (like Image Hands and Widgets) are not currently available for the Orion Unity Core Assets. User Interface Design. Creating Affordances. Ergonomics.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 4, 2016

This week we’re excited to share Pinch Utilities , a new module for our Unity Core Assets that gives you access to the power of pinch. Pinch Utilities is a basic component for detecting a pinch gesture and providing useful information about it. Inside the Pinch Utilities module, you’ll find a Unity Behavior called LeapPinchDetector.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Ultraleap) Ultraleap launches Leap Motion Controller 2 Hand-tracking company Ultraleap has just announced the Leap Motion Controller 2 , the evolution of the iconic Leap Motion Controller, which is smaller and more precise than its predecessor.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’re making VR/AR development easier with Widgets: fundamental UI building blocks for Unity. One of the major features of Planetarium is the ability to travel around the globe using motion controls. The problem is that, in Unity, either order of operations is possible! Why is this a problem?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2020

Starting from these data, the runtime can also extract some higher level information, like for instance some gestures : it detects if you are pointing at something (only the index finger is open), if you are pinching (thumb and index fingers are squeezing), etc… The runtime detecting some gestures (GIF by TG0). Use with virtual reality.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

OSVR (Open Source Virtual Reality) aims to create an open and universal standard for the discovery, configuration, and operation of VR/AR devices. Since the OSVR launch in January this year, nearly 250 organizations including Intel, NVIDIA, Xilinx, Ubisoft, Leap Motion, and many others have joined the OSVR ecosystem.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In turn, they continue to inform our other bleeding-edge internal projects. The UI Input Module provides a simplified interface for physically interacting with World Space Canvases in Unity’s UI System. At Leap Motion, we’ve been experimenting internally with a range of different interfaces that are part of the user.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

I read (and watched) lots of materials about the Oculus Connect 6, and it is time for me to merge all this info into a super-big-fat-article with all you need to know on the Oculus Connect 6 , so that all of you in the communities can stay informed on what has happened without reading more than 60 articles as I did! Let’s start!

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Situ founded Virtual Reality Pop , the #1 Medium.com publication on immersive technology with over 37,000 subscribers.

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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

MARCH 23, 2020

But this is known since a lot (see all the work researchers are doing with smart prosthetics), and the Matrix is something far more different than it : it would require injecting information into all areas the brain, something for which now we have just very simple experiments. Anyway, see you in Half-Life today! from 2019.

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