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Leap Motion Raises $50 Million For Its Finger Tracking Technology

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VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. Leap Motion is one possible solution, with its hand and finger tracking technology offering one route for VR and AR headsets to let people make selections and interact with virtual worlds.

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Hands-On: Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Feels Great, But It’s Not Perfect

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As for actions such as pulling up menus or teleporting around virtual environments, it’s possible that hand gestures such as the ones used with the Microsoft HoloLens or Leap Motion could resolve this. Like anything else, it’s a feature you will need to get used too. ” Image Credit: Facebook.

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WCVRI: Hands-on with new North Star headset, Virtualizer 2, Pareal VR and more!

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Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking. What was inferior to Microsoft’s headset was, of course, the tracking.

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Varjo XR-4 hands-on preview: high resolution and raytracing are an explosive mix in VR

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For instance, in a mixed reality training session on a physical plane, the pilot should be able to see the physical switches of the plane exactly like in real life The headset has now a physical button to turn it off , so it doesn’t require anymore to be unplugged every time it is not in use.

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Most Innovative XR Hand and Eye Tracking Vendors to Watch in 2022

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Innovators in the world of Mixed Reality, Microsoft relies heavily on concepts like hand and eye tracking to help users combine the physical and digital worlds. The Microsoft HoloLens technology available today comes with state-of-the-art eye-tracking, and hand tracking capabilities to ensure users can easily interact with digital content.

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Varjo XR-4 Series Review: Next-Level Mixed Reality Headsets

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According to the company, over 25% of Fortune 100 companies already use its headsets to train pilots and astronauts, create 3D visualizations, and power medical breakthroughs. The solution also has optimized camera resolution for pilot training and other demanding use cases. Varjo is explicitly targeting the enterprise landscape.

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

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thanks to a better training). Traditionally, leading tech vendors have invested in distributed network infrastructure, but many of them (such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are adapting to a new paradigm to support localized, persistent, collaborative, shared, multiuser interactions. Header image by Leap Motion).