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Doraemon ‘Anywhere Door’ Uses Simple Props for a Brilliant VR Experience

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Bandai Namco’s ‘ Project i Can ‘ has made the Anywhere Door a (virtual) reality using the HTC Vive, Leap Motion, and a few simple props tracked with attached Vive controllers. The result is a compelling experience that turns the ordinary into the extraordinary. The experience makes use of a real door and a desk.

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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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Matsuda himself subsequently began working in AR following the film's release, leading design teams at both Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) and Microsoft. Most forms of gambling are illegal in Japan, so the experience's slot machine didn't deal in real money.

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Newsletter 51 – #WWYL? How Hardware Hacks can Change the World

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Leap Motion at PennApps. We’ll be sharing more about our experiences soon, including some very cool Leap Motion API hacks. Compare Metrics + Leap Motion Hackathon. Watch how sensrec is using Leap Motion technology to teach SCARA and Stäubli robots how to perform tasks. Tokyo, Japan.

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 1: Cave, zSpace, Brogent hands-on

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This also means that there is more contamination from the West and also from Japan, considering that this island was part of Japan various years ago. Even worse, it wasn’t able to track my finger movements well (it was worse than Leap Motion … and Leap Motion doesn’t have worn sensors!).

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The Design Process Behind Itadakimasu!

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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. PARO is an advanced interactive robot used in hospitals and extended care facilities in Japan and Europe. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Japan Joins Project North Star

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Like the first chocolate waterfall outside of Willy Wonka’s factory, now the first North Star-style headsets outside our lab have been born – in Japan. Masahiro Yamaguchi (CEO, Psychic VR Lab), God Scorpion (Media artist, Psychic VR Lab), Keiichi Matsuda (VP Design, Leap Motion), Oda Yuda (Designer), Akihiro Fujii (CTO, Psychic VR Lab).

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SIF: Mandala mixes interactive theater with VR, my experience with redirected walking and much more!

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Thanks to Leap Motion tracking , you can actually see your hands in VR and you can use your hands to activate some objects that make you go further in the adventure. The Tide is a storytelling experience about some big evil fishes that start populating the seas and the costs of Japan.

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