The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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. At WCVRI , I have tried some cool AR/VR hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). In the surroundings of the event, there are many references to VR and 5G.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one. Header image by Leap Motion). The post Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

At E3 2016 I got to see the latest prototype version of Gloveone, a haptic motion input glove designed for virtual reality. But that first version of the glove required a third-party tracking system like Leap Motion in order to translate the movement of the user’s hands into virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

Check the “Virtual Reality Supported” flag. Then in the Virtual Reality SDKs section, click on the “+” sign and choose “Oculus” The Oculus SDK should be selected as the VR SDK to use. the ones from Leap Motion). Double click on the Cube.cs Add the script Cube2.cs

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Qualcomm is the company making almost all the chipsets and the reference designs upon which almost all XR headsets of nowadays are based upon. At the beginning of 2020, the American company will finalize its reference design based on this chipset, and in the second half of the year we will see the first headsets implementing this technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog. If you want, you can find it here below!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

One month ago, I’ve participated in the Stereopsia event in Bruxelles (Belgium) to perform a talk about how to organize an event in virtual reality. A guy and a girl from Prague showcased in Stereopsia a simple demo where you could play the piano with a Vive with a Leap Motion mounted on. VR Pianist.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 13, 2017

The self-contained virtual reality headset makes use of Intel’s vision technologies to create a wireless, inside-out positionally tracked headset. II,” as we will refer to it for the remainder of this story, was said to include more software optimization than the other demo units inside the booth. The “Mk.

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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. SenseGlove is an exoskeleton for your hands that is able to provide you haptics sensations.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset. Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Body frame of reference.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

1” is not the new name of a son of Elon Musk, but it is the (questionable) name of a new opensource AR headset by Combine Reality, based on Leap Motion’s North Star reference design. It seems a clone of the Vive Focus Plus, and this is because actually it is based on a reference design provided by HTC. “CR Deck Mk.1”

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Leapmotion

MARCH 2, 2016

Delete the current Leap Motion assets from your project. Resolve compile errors: Any references to HandController.GetFrame() should now be directed at LeapProvider.CurrentFrame. Resolve compile errors: Any references to HandController.GetFrame() should now be directed at LeapProvider.CurrentFrame.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 7, 2017

This week we hit the CES showfloor in Las Vegas with two missions: share our Mobile VR Platform with the world and play “spot Leap Motion in the wild.”. What is Leap Motion? With an embedded input solution, developers can know that 100% of users have access to Leap Motion interaction.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. GET THE PLUGIN.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

This makes the transition from seated to standing experience seamless, but requires environmental references to fade in, making the vertical movement evident and maintaining the orientation. This is the core of our mission at Leap Motion. The post Designing Cat Explorer appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 29, 2015

It’s available free for Windows on the Leap Motion App Store. While we didn’t specifically reference any game titles, we did spend a lot of time watching Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – specifically the scene where the Millennium Falcon flies through the Death Star and ultimately destroys it. Yup, definitely!

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Leapmotion

APRIL 3, 2019

The optimization algorithm finds the best distortion parameters automatically by comparing images inside the headset with a known reference. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. With the North Star calibrator, we’ve automated this step using two visible-light stereo cameras. Mechanical Updates. Join the discussion on Discord !

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Martin Schubert is a VR Developer/Designer at Leap Motion and the creator of Weightless and Geometric. And then along comes virtual reality. An inherently 3D medium requiring designed virtual 3D objects, but without the limitations and guidance of physical functions. Designing Nonexistent Objects.

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Road to VR

MARCH 10, 2017

Qualcomm has debuted an updated version of their VR Headset Reference Design now with Leap Motion’s new 180-degree hand-tracking to bring gesture control to mobile VR headsets. The new headset and Leap Motion tracking module was shown off during last week’s GDC 2017.

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Leapmotion

MAY 7, 2016

While working on demonstration projects here at Leap Motion, we’ve found ourselves wanting to use different sets of hands for a variety of reasons. You can assign a name for your new model pair so you can refer to it at runtime. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 9, 2016

Nonverbal communication has been huge for us, where we can have people wave, give the Fonzi ‘eyyyy, air quotes, thumbs up… especially with Leap Motion Orion. What’s best about the hand tracking from Leap Motion is that it’s feeding from the actual hands from the person. That stuff just comes across so wonderfully.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Virtual reality is a world of specters, filled with sights and sounds that offer no physical resistance when you reach towards them. This is the philosophy behind the Leap Motion Interaction Engine , which is built to handle low-level physics interactions and make them feel familiar. Building Affordances.

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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. What is virtual reality’s version of “Hello World”?

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 11, 2017

CES 2017 was about making those realities more intelligent, interactive, and human – from imaginary worlds unfolding before our eyes to objects that can talk to you and each other. We're at #CES2017 this week with our #MobileVR reference design! One of our favorite games at CES was Spot the Leap Motion Controller.

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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. The ScaffoldGridVisual class has references to these handles. The Challenge.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

OC5 celebrates the last 5 years of virtual reality breakthroughs and gives us a glimpse of what’s to come in the next five years. Standalone virtual reality headsets are an all-in-one device that can power virtual reality on their own, with no computer or phone tethering needed. Google Cardboard ($15) .

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’re making VR/AR development easier with Widgets: fundamental UI building blocks for Unity. The script references the graphics components because it will call their functions based on the state in the physics component. The post Exploring the Structure of UI Widgets appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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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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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2018

But there are times when virtual objects will be farther away than arm’s reach, beyond the user’s range of direct manipulation. As part of its interactive design sprints, Leap Motion , creators of the hand-tracking peripheral of the same name, prototyped three ways of effectively interacting with distant objects in VR.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 5, 2016

That’s why I think all of us work in technology, and why we at Leap Motion are always very much living in the future. Today I’m going to be talking about the Leap Motion Mobile Platform. We needed to build a whole new Leap Motion sensor with higher performance and much lower power.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

References to “Infinite Office” found inside the Oculus Quest runtime. There’s also a reference to a whiteboard that you can use together in AR/VR and in real life. Thanks to it, the XR2 Reference Design will feature as official hands tracking the one created by UltraLeap. You can now try Google’s volumetric videos.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The headsets are something we have never seen before and one of them clearly features a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) with the Valve logo on and from that moment on, the hype regarding an upcoming Valve virtual reality HMD has risen. The photos. And until now, things have goon smoothly this way.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

exploding space stations, fight rival AIs, craft futuristic swords in virtual reality, and more. C0NFL1CT is a turn-based virtual reality game prototype that adds a new dimension to classic chess-like gameplay, including new tactical possibilities. The post 12 Explosive Sci-Fi Games appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 31, 2019

By comparing what we see against some real-world reference, we can measure the aggregate deviation of the components in the system. A special class of algorithms called “numerical optimizers” lets us solve for the configuration of optical components that minimizes the distortion mismatch between the real-world reference and the virtual image.

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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. For example, pointing at oneself when referring to another person feels foreign. Responsive gestures occur in response to the ergonomics and affordances of specific objects.

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