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How Sound Design Can Add Texture To A Virtual World

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Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more. In the real world, this would be impossible, since there are no walls or anything in the space that suggests there should be reverb.

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From Orion to Mobile VR: Leap Motion in 2016

Leapmotion

Click To Tweet Leap Motion goes mobile. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. MARCH 2: To match the new capabilities of Leap Motion Orion with the performance demands of VR, we gave our Unity toolset an overhaul from the ground up. Click To Tweet AUG.

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5 Unreal Assets for Your Next Orion VR Project

Leapmotion

With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! Whimsical fall leaves, melancholy rain, spooky fog – weather can be a powerful way to set the tone for your virtual world (or give your users Storm-like superpowers).

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Featured Platform: Getnamo’s Community Plugin for Unreal Engine 4

Leapmotion

One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. With the rising popularity of PC gaming and VR, there’s never been a better time to start building with one of the world’s most powerful game engines. GET THE PLUGIN. What’s Next?

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Twist the Gears of a Massive VR Music Engine with Carillon

Leapmotion

The addition of VR to that arsenal has been extremely eye-opening, as the ability to build virtual instruments and experiences that leverage depth and space – literally allowing musicians to move inside a virtual instrument and interact with it while retaining a sense of place – plays off of musicians learned abilities to coax sound out of objects.

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

Leapmotion

But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further? CAD & OBJ Viewer allows you to take a design directly from CAD into a virtual world where you can manipulate and verify the design without wasting precious time on rapid prototyping until you are ready.”

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12 Games to Unleash Your Magic Powers

Leapmotion

“Imagine transforming the whole world into that particular shiny metal which holds the very notion of value,” says designer Peter Klinkon, whose company kernel-image creates digital content for the emerging virtual world. How will it change the way you feel about yourself and the world you live in?”. Neos: The Origin.

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