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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. A VR take on this idea uses simple props to make a unique VR experience. 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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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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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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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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SIF: Mandala mixes interactive theater with VR, my experience with redirected walking and much more!

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It reminded me a bit the MetaMovie project that I described here on this blog, but instead of happening all in virtual reality in High Fidelity, it is organized in an installation in real reality. After that, we all hugged virtually and physically, the monkey disappeared and then the experience ended.

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Japan Joins Project North Star

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Earlier this summer, we open sourced the design for Project North Star , the world’s most advanced augmented reality R&D platform. 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. Recently we caught up with them.

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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.