Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Designed for the Oculus Rift, it’s available free for Mac and Windows on the Leap Motion App Store. Over time, my interest shifted to Unity3D, and now I love to tinker with new hardware like the Leap Motion, Oculus Rift, or Kinect – which led to experiments like Hoverboard VR , Polyrider , and Soundscape VR.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This week, motion designer Mike Alger released an 18-minute video that digs into the cutting edge of VR interface design using the Leap Motion Controller and Oculus Rift. The post VR Interface Design and the Future of Hybrid Reality appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. It is VR’s medium defining process.”.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

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. The glove uses small vibrating motors at the tips of each finger to give the feeling that you are touching objects in the virtual world.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

It’s been a busy month on the Leap Motion Twitch TV channel! In this video, Daniel and Wilbur return to guide you through a 30 minute walkthrough on how to get your 3D Jam project up and running in VR, Unity assets available for your project, and design tips to keep in mind: Ask a Leap Motion Engineer!

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 23, 2015

First, the Leap Motion Controller can provide intuitive hand interactions, but not necessarily intuitive player movement controls. Second, the 3D environment motion flows in immersive VR often cause “simulator sickness” and negative game experience. The Leap Motion assets for Unity are quite convenient and easy to use.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

Productivity interactions tend to happen at the tips of our fingers – where there’s enough dexterity for small movements to be precise and expressive, while staying energy-efficient over longer periods of time. 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

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The Leap Motion Orion software opens up two fundamental interactions – pinch and grab. In this exploration, we’ll cover some quick tips on building for the strengths of Leap Motion technology, while avoiding common pitfalls. Of course, it also begins with the hardware and software that drives those interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It seems cool, but I would like to try it to believe in it: all the times that someone promised me some kind of sensory magic, it never turned out so good as they told me (like with the phantom touch sensation that Leap Motion told me about ). Nreal Light is on sale in Germany. In the end, the Chinese company Nreal has kept its word.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 13, 2015

As an optical motion tracking platform , the Leap Motion Controller is fundamentally different from handheld controllers in many ways. Here are 4 tips to designing for the controller’s unique strengths, while avoiding common pitfalls. You don’t know, and neither does the Leap Motion Controller.

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Leapmotion

JULY 28, 2015

The demo puts you in control using a combination of Leap Motion interaction and a fully integrated Hands On Throttle and Stick (HOTAS) control system. Leap Motion + HOTAS Gamepad. The post Punch into Hyperspace with VR Cockpit: Leap Motion’s Latest Experimental Project appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

With APIs for six programming languages and dozens of platform integrations, the Leap Motion SDK has everything you need to get started. Here’s a four-minute guide to building your first Unity VR demo: Along with a full Leap Motion + Oculus 0.7 Thinking Outside the Mouse. The Sensor is Always On. Get started with Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

the ones from Leap Motion). If you dig into Oculus code, you discover that this tool is basically a sphere that follows the tip of one finger (the Index finger, in this case) and that interacts with Interactable elements by contact (other tools can interact by distance using ray casting). Double click on the Cube.cs

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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. Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!”

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In today’s smartphone world the open tipped glove is essential and proved very useful even for the relatively short demo. Hand tracking is one of those technologies that will become more ubiquitous whether it’s via gloves or systems like Leap Motion. On a quick side note, notice the open fingertips?

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Leapmotion

APRIL 9, 2018

Manufacturing optics with this level of precision requires expensive tooling, so we “turned” to diamond turning (the process of rotating an optic on a vibration-controlled lathe with a diamond-tipped tool-piece). The post Our Journey to the North Star appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. Aside from this, my major work with Leap Motion is my game Robot Chess , a relatively simple game which allows you to use your hands to pick up and move around chess pieces as you play against a robotic AI opponent.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 8, 2015

So I switched to the Leap Motion Controller and quickly got my hands in my application. The new Arm HUD Widget by Leap Motion looked good, but I knew it wouldn’t be released for some time. Designing with Leap Motion. Things went fast from here. I knew I needed to adopt a menu system of some sort.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

And with the stylus, you can easily manipulate them : for instance, you can put the tip of the pen on a 3D object, press the little button with your index finger and then move and rotate the pen to move and rotate the object. You can also move a bit the head , and the virtual elements still visualize in the correct way.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Following up on last week’s release of the Leap Motion Interaction Engine , I’m excited to share Weightless: Remastered , a major update to my project that won second place in the first-ever 3D Jam. Plus, some tips around visual feedback for weightless locomotion, and designing virtual objects that look “grabbable.”.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. Do you have any UX design tips for other game developers starting with VR? The post <i>Weightless</i> Creator Martin Schubert on Designing a Zero-Gravity Sci-Fi Playground appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. What inspired that?

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Leapmotion

JUNE 11, 2016

Here are a few tips for developing with the module: Big buttons. The post New Unity Module for User Interface Input appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. Designing with the UI Input Module. They’re easier to read in VR and easier to select. Drop shadows.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

If you are a creative, you may be very happy to discover that finally, Logitech has released its VR Stylus, that is a pen, tracked with SteamVR technology, optimized for drawing in VR, both in 3D in air and in 2D by pressing the tip on a surface like a desk. That sounds amazing, and in fact it is, given that the reviews are pretty positive.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 28, 2016

To train new pilots, we created a helper robot based on an event flow system, so that the robot can give you tips based on what’s currently happening. The post The Art of Storytelling and Narrative in VR appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. The environment is highly reactive to user gaze, and there are lots of buttons to press.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

TIP: If you can allocate the budget I would recommend buying 2 display LCD panels and 1 driver board. Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. Originally I was going to make a standalone device which hooked everything up to a Nvidia Jetson Nano that could be worn on your belt (think Magic Leap One).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. The image above is a Leap Motion hand-tracking demo. Tracking Volume: Proximity. Image credit: Ultraleap / gfycat.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2016

PowerClaw is a haptic glove that lets you feel heat, cold, and a number of sensations on the tips of your fingers. All of this however was done without any sort of tracking, a duty that PowerClaw has rested on the backs of optical hand tracking devices like Leap Motion. mine were just fine).

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 28, 2015

It’s now available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. Do you have any UX design tips for other developers who want to build open-world experiences with Leap Motion? I think the most important UX tip is that the player should be making natural moves that make sense for each interaction.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

My recent interest in virtual reality and Leap Motion input led to several interesting project ideas. Tips on Developing VR Tools. Developing with Leap Motion Tracking. While motion tracking is continually improving, it’s essential to take advantage of the technology’s current strengths.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

It has bought the hand-tracking company Leap Motion various months ago for $30M since the two hardware are a perfect fit the one for the other. Thanks to David Digital for the tip of the latest two news!). Its peculiarity? They work by being connected with iOS phones and tablets. It is the first device of this kind.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner. With 2D Leap Motion applications, this means adapting traditional UX design principles that condensed around the mouse and keyboard. Limit hand interactivity. Text and Image Legibility.

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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. A must-watch.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Make a single element of the hand able to interact with buttons and other UI elements – typically, the tip of the index finger. At Leap Motion, we’ve been experimenting internally with a range of different interfaces that are part of the user. Limit hand interactivity. Wearable Interfaces.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now. Alan: And they just gave slight haptic feedback on the tips of your fingers. Varag: Okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now. Alan: And they just gave slight haptic feedback on the tips of your fingers. Varag: Okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now. Alan: And they just gave slight haptic feedback on the tips of your fingers. Varag: Okay.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

If lawyers start entering the metaverse, we are f *ed… (Thanks Cathy Hackl for this tip). I have heard many people making confusion between “Magic Leap” and “Leap Motion”, but no one doing the same with Nreal and Unreal. Three VR games have implemented NVIDIA DLSS.

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