The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. 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. Table of Contents.

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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. Why Your Hands?

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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. Use with virtual reality.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 23, 2014

How pervasive will virtual reality be? Mozilla’s recent experiments combining VR and the web pave a path towards virtual presence – pushing beyond disconnected feelings of immersion and bringing us into new places with a life of their own. We’ve been working with Mozilla to make the web a killer app for VR.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 25, 2014

By creating a game that forces your eyes to work together, he hopes to offer a therapeutic virtual-reality solution that makes it fun for people to overcome their amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus with games. Want to see more projects with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion Controller?

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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

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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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

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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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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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. When we bring our hands into a virtual space, we also bring a lifetime’s worth of physical biases with us. 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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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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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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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. Virtual reality is an exciting medium, but for first time users it can take a few minutes to master its limitations.

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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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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Situ founded Virtual Reality Pop , the #1 Medium.com publication on immersive technology with over 37,000 subscribers.

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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

There are a number of ways to create your own virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) app/videogame. The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years.

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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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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. As you can see there are tools like Block Programming that can make life easier for non-developers. A very nice idea , mixing the art of the past with the technology of the present.

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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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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2017

These rules are so fundamental that we design our digital realities to reflect human expectations about how things work in the real world. At Leap Motion, our mission is to empower people to interact seamlessly with the digital landscape. Today, we’re excited to release a major upgrade to this tool kit. Graphic Renderer.

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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

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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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. In coming years the consumer market will run virtual reality through the refining crucible of ethics, etiquette, and social acceptance.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

We all love virtual reality, but sometimes it gives us big headaches. And not because of the motion sickness , but because something doesn’t work. There are anyway other tools that can help in configuring it properly. To enter SteamVR Beta, open Steam and Select Library -> Tools. Choose Properties.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 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. Once the most underrated element of virtual reality, sound is now widely recognized to be a major element in creating VR with “presence.” Ambiance and Mood. Extra Reading.

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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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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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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. Does virtual reality have the potential to unlock new technical and artistic workflows? In its current iteration, Jere’s VR animation tool uses our Unity UI widgets.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post, we’ll cover everything you need to know about our integrations and best practices for augmented and virtual reality, desktop, and the Internet of Things. With APIs for six programming languages and dozens of platform integrations, the Leap Motion SDK has everything you need to get started.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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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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.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

For the array of new 3D input devices, especially in virtual reality, the lack of options and standards can create significant development challenges. Yesterday, I introduced you to Hovercast – a hand-controlled menu interface for virtual reality environments. Tips on Developing VR Tools.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

And all of this is easy, because every tool you need is in the palm of your hand. Hovercast is a menu interface for virtual reality environments. Built as a tool for developers, it’s highly customizable, and can include many nested levels of selectors, toggles, triggers, and sliders. You have complete control.

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