The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. First, let’s start with installing Unity hand-tracking. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D. Let’s start there—let’s download Unity and set it up for hand-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

AI reconstruction of how the launch of the Deckard may happen The controllers are an optimized version of Valve Index Controllers , smaller and more reliable, even if I’m told that the headset can also track the hands thanks to an integrated Leap Motion controller.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2022

The question is, which innovative tools are offering the best tracking experience in the XR environment today? Here are some of our most popular hand and eye tracking tools to guide your purchasing choices. The powerful eye tracking tools can even convey blinking and natural eye movements in avatars , for better collaboration.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 21, 2017

strLast time, we looked at how an interactive VR sculpture could be created with the Leap Motion Graphic Renderer as part of an experiment in interaction design. The Leap Motion Interaction Engine provides the foundation for hand-centric VR interaction design. SculptureInteraction: Using Interaction Engine Callbacks.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Today on the Air Mozilla livestream , they’re showcasing a variety of new tools and demos, including VRCollage – a demo that we created with Mozilla’s team that brings the concept of 3D web browsing to life. This opens up the possibility of delivering content ranging from elaborate WebGL experiences to apps built in Unity/C# or C++.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 30, 2016

Last year, we featured 6 kickass Unity assets with the power to bring your project to the next level. Since we’re giving away five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credits as part of our 2016 developer survey , we thought we’d share some more cool stuff you can buy with cold hard virtual cash. Custom Pointer ($17). PhysicsRecorder.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Recently we created a quick VR sculpture prototype that combines the latest and greatest of these tools. Click To Tweet The Leap Motion Interaction Engine lets developers give their virtual objects the ability to be picked up, thrown, nudged, swatted, smooshed, or poked. Rapid Prototyping and Development at Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Click To Tweet When someone first puts on a Leap Motion-enabled VR headset, it often seems like they’re rediscovering how to use their own hands. With our Interaction Engine Unity package, prototyping these kinds of physically inspired interfaces is easier than ever. Each stage is at your fingertips w/ #LeapMotion #Unity.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 2, 2016

Leap Motion’s new Orion software represents a radical shift in our controller’s ability to see your hands. In tandem, we’ve also been giving our Unity toolset an overhaul from the ground up. We started with a brand new LeapC client architecture for streamlined data throughput from the Leap service into Unity.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 25, 2014

You can read more about James’ work in his guest post on designing Diplopia for the Oculus Rift, which he built using our Unity Demo Pack ( update: now deprecated ). Want to see more projects with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion Controller? Update: Diplopia is now Vivid Vision. Update: Diplopia is now Vivid Vision.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

As part of our global tour for the Leap Motion 3D Jam , we’re at Berlin’s Game Science Centre to take developers through our SDK and building with the latest VR tools. Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. Hey everyone! Why Hands in VR? and Oculus 0.5

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Leapmotion

MAY 3, 2015

We all grew tired of talking about how we wanted to explore VR development, so we allocated several weeks to tinkering with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion — staffing one full-time developer and a few designers part-time. We got things started by downloading the most popular Oculus Rift / Leap Motion demos and giving them a try.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2020

To update Etee’s firmware, you have to use the firmware update tool provided with the runtime. You have to connect one controller at a time to the USB port of your PC with the USB cable provided and use the window of the tool to update the firmware using a firmware file you have downloaded online. Calibration. Battery time.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Hand and eye tracking tools, capable of sensing the movements, gestures, and gaze of a user, can take XR experiences to a new level. These tools open the door for everything from completely hands-free XR user interfaces to intelligent foveated rendering. The company also supports eye tracking, for concepts like foveated rendering.

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Leapmotion

MAY 15, 2015

At a recent Designers + Geeks talk , Jody Medich and Daniel Plemmons talked about some of the discoveries our team has made (and the VR best practices we’ve developed) while building VR experiences with the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller. It’s more like designing a room full of tools than a screen with buttons.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

For this reason, sound is more than just an immersive tool – how (and where) objects around you sound has an enormous effect on your understanding of where they are, especially when you’re not looking at them. The Unity game engine tries to reinforce this real-world falloff. Tagged with: leap motion Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 11, 2016

Unity Widgets are back – with a new name and massively streamlined functionality! Just released for our Unity Core Assets , the UI Input Module provides a simplified interface for physically interacting with World Space Canvases within Unity’s UI System. It’s a powerful tool toward increasing the dynamism of your UI elements.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

I expected some sorts of runtime, configuration panel, hardware diagnostic tool, etc… instead, there is nothing. Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object. As a developer, I gave a look to their Unity SDK, that you can find on GitHub here.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2017

At Leap Motion, our mission is to empower people to interact seamlessly with the digital landscape. Last year, we released an early access beta of the Leap Motion Interaction Engine , a layer that exists between the Unity game engine and real-world hand physics. Graphic Renderer. The post Interaction Engine 1.0:

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Leapmotion

MAY 27, 2015

New Unity Asset Lets You See Your Actual Hands — Not Just a Rigged Replica. That’s why we’ve just released a new Unity asset feature that brings your real hands into any VR experience. That’s why we’ve just released a new Unity asset feature that brings your real hands into any VR experience. Glowing with Confidence.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

It removes the extra utility tools to focus on an easy to use interaction development system, which is completely focalized on a painless and streamlined development process. VRTK proposes a simple grab system that can be coupled with the physic engine of Unity to define the desired behavior of the interaction you are creating.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 28, 2016

Based on community ratings and scores from the Leap Motion team, we’re excited to present the winners of the second annual 3D Jam. Prize: $10,000, Unity Suite, 2 OSVR HDKs, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Prize: $7,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Prize: $2,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK. The votes are in!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

Presenz also offers a Unity plugin so that you can import this render file in Unity and so mix the resulting volumetric video with some real-time interactions that you add in the game engine. As you can see there are tools like Block Programming that can make life easier for non-developers. Altheria Solutions. VR Pianist.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2016

Rotate, re-position and highlight your model with your dominant hand, and use your other hand to click or type to command the tools you need. I was already working on some voxel ideas in Unity and rolled them in to create A Vox Eclipse.” A Vox Eclipse.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Hardware infrastructure and software developer tools from big players like Apple (ARKit) and Facebook (Camera Effects platform) directly contributed to a huge surge in interest in augmented reality. San Francisco-based Leap Motion has raised a $50M Series C for their hand- and finger-tracking technology. and just a few more….

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Developers can develop AR experiences with Zappar using the tool they like the most : Unity, native Javascript, A-frame, C++. Unity launches MARS tools. They are an enterprise tool useful for companies to build solutions without having to hire a programmer. Pokemon Go adds AR occlusion and scanning features.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. VRFocus will continue its coverage XR related development tools, reporting back with the latest updates.

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Leapmotion

JULY 10, 2015

Leap Motion is a great tool for this.”. The project was primarily built in Unity, utilizing our widgets to cue interaction design. In the beginning, I wanted to develop a haptic glove that I could use with Leap Motion in a virtual reality scenario, allowing me to feel the stuff I touched.”

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Leapmotion

MAY 2, 2015

True to form, the ever-investigative VR community immediately began unpacking the possibilities a tool like this could bring to the field of animation. The department had done quite a bit of animation interface design with Leap Motion and and 2D screens, so he said maybe I could do the same, but this time with the Oculus Rift.”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

And also some people of my family are now enjoying it since it is a great tool to escape the isolation we are forced into. Some of them talk about tools to organize virtual events or virtual meetings, and that can be very useful for your professional lives. Greg Madison is a genius working on AR/VR UX at Unity Labs. from 2019.

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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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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

In this post, we take a look at 4 ways that sound, VR, and motion controls can be a powerful combination. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space, which is absolutely essential to creating a sense of presence. Here are just a few: Unity documentation. Extra Reading.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. But we’d also expect to see the existing edge providers such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, the big cloud providers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and a host of open-source tools for automation, deployment, caching, federated learning, serverless computing and so on.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. With APIs for six programming languages and dozens of platform integrations, the Leap Motion SDK has everything you need to get started. and VR support.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 4, 2016

This week we’re excited to share Pinch Utilities , a new module for our Unity Core Assets that gives you access to the power of pinch. Inside the Pinch Utilities module, you’ll find a Unity Behavior called LeapPinchDetector. Pinch Utilities just the first of many fundamental building tools that we have in development.

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