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Moving Virtual Objects Like a Jedi

Tech Trends VR

In fact, I’m a bit surprised it took this long, but researchers at Virginia Tech have put their brains to good use and come up with a way for ordinary mortals to replicate the telekinetic powers of a Jedi in Virtual Reality. Alice Bonasio is a VR Consultant and Tech Trends’ Editor in Chief.

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VRTK vs INTERACTION BUILDER: Which one is for you?

ARVR

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3. Augmented reality (AR) is the future of Restaurant Menu? It now supports Oculus Quest, HTC Vive and UltraLeap (former Leap Motion) systems of skeletal hand tracking for interactions based on realistic, and customizable, hand poses.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.22): Sony reveals PSVR2 controllers, FRL shows the wristband of the future, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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 ). The mystery of Virtual Reality support on Xbox continues with a new chapter of the saga.

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Reaching into 3D Data, Exploring CAD Designs, Virtual Meetings, and More

Leapmotion

. “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. Leap Commander. ” Requires: Windows.

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NextMind Review: select objects using your brain powers

The Ghost Howls

BCI is one of the big trends of the future, and understanding what they can do and what not is important for many IT professionals; I guess that in the future its runtime could be updated to do more. The Unity SDK for NextMind is just fantastic. Hands-on with the demos. Registering to the events of the NeuroTag (e.g.

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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

The Ghost Howls

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community.

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OSVR Co-founder on the Future of Open Source Virtual Reality

Road to VR

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. I’d like to describe how I hope to see OSVR develop given past and present industry trends. An avalanche of new virtual reality devices has arrived. Many game engines—such as Unity, Unreal, and SteamVR—immediately support it.