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Ultraleap Stereo IR 170 review: use your hands naturally in VR!

The Ghost Howls

I have appreciated it a lot, so I thought it could have been a cool idea to make a post for you to describe how it is and compare it with the previous Leap Motion controller. Some weeks ago, I have reviewed the new Leap Motion Gemini (v5) runtime , and I have appreciated its robustness. Are you in?

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These Gloves Let You Play Piano in VR—and Feel It

VRScout

Combining three discrete technologies, researchers at UC San Diego have created a glove that simulates real-life force in virtual worlds. But you could imagine it being used for surgery and video games, among other applications.”. Just don’t expect the technology to transform you into an overnight Liberace).

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

Some examples of this category of glasses: Intel Vaunt (project abandoned); North Focals; Vuzix Blade; Snap Spectacles v2 (they are just cameras to share videos); Bose AR glasses (these are not for visual, but for audio augmented reality). Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here.

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New VR Glove Uses Muscle-Like Chambers To Simulate Touch

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In theory, the gloves could paired with other technologies like a Leap Motion sensor to simulate a wide range of activities. Our final goal is to create a device that provides a richer experience in VR…but you could imagine it being used for surgery and video games, among other applications.”.

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Intel’s Project Alloy Demonstrates “Merged Reality”

VRScout

This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking. Later a prerecorded video showed a woman in a small virtual world complete with a pet dog. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained.

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Intel’s Project Alloy Demonstrates “Merged Reality”

VRScout

This provides Leap Motion type hand tracking as well as six-degrees-of-freedom, room-scale positional tracking. Later a prerecorded video showed a woman in a small virtual world complete with a pet dog. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained.

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Stereopsia report / 1: hands-on with Presenz, Antilatency, full-body on Quest and more!

The Ghost Howls

Presenz is a company developing a solution to create 6DOF Videos. That is, using its software, you can create a 360 3D video where the user can move the head. It is not tailored to shoot videos of the real world with a camera, but to create CGI videos. You should try it as well. It was cool the same, though.

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