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Introducing: Vimeo Couch Mode
Creatives across the map – indie filmmakers, emerging musicians, dancers, actors, installation artists, and beyond – all flock to Vimeo to forge their personal brands and spread their work around the...
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How Does the Leap Motion Controller Work?
From the earliest hardware prototypes to the latest tracking software, the Leap Motion platform has come a long way. We’ve gotten lots of questions about how our technology works, so today we’re taking...
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Designing Freeform: The Leap Motion Clay Sculpting App
How would you sculpt a virtual piece of clay? It’s a deceptively simple question – one that we’ve been thinking about for years. Despite the enormous power of modern CAD applications, it still takes...
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Image API Now Available for v2 Tracking Beta
You asked for it, you got it! By popular demand, we’ve just released the Image API, which lets you access raw data from the Leap Motion Controller for the first time. Applications built with version...
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Getting Started with the Leap Motion SDK
Last week, we took an in-depth look at how the Leap Motion Controller works, from sensor data to the application interface. Today, we’re digging into our API to see how developers can access the data...
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On the Verge of Extinction
Around the world, nearly 15,000 animal species are threatened with extinction. These are numbers that stagger the imagination, especially as more species routinely slip into total extinction, never to...
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Taking Motion Control Ergonomics Beyond Minority Report
Tom Cruise is hardly out of shape. After all, he’s been running in movies since 1981. But according to some reports, he had to frequently rest his arms while shooting the Minority Report Pre-Crime...
View ArticleLeap Motion @ Unite Seattle 2014
This week, Team Leap Motion roadtripped up to the Pacific Northwest and came face to face with the awesomeness that is the Unity Community. Check out these highlights from Unite 2014. [View the story...
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How Do Fictional UIs Influence Today’s Motion Controls?
The Leap Motion Controller doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Across fiction, gaming, and art, we can see a rich history of motion control concepts and devices, and understanding what makes them successful is...
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Leap Motion Sets a Course for VR
Hi everyone, I’d like to take a moment to talk about a series of developments we’ve been working on specifically for virtual reality. The first set involves our existing peripheral device and new...
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12 FAQs About the VR Developer Mount
Since announcing the VR Developer Mount, we’ve heard lots of great questions from developers who are experimenting with virtual and augmented reality. Here are some of the most popular questions we’ve...
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Inside Leap Motion: 5 Hands-On Tips for Developing in VR
From gaming to big data, virtual reality gives us the chance to build and explore whole new worlds beyond the screen. As we developed demos and prototypes with the Oculus Rift internally, several UX...
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Your Beer Deserves a Better Paint Job
Rio de Janeiro’s fourth annual ArtRio Festival overtook Pier Mauá last week. Fifty thousand visitors wandered through over 100 different galleries, taking in world-renowned works right alongside pieces...
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Cal Hacks 2014: Voice-Commanded Virtual Reality and Musical Data
It’s no secret that for many developers in our community, midnight is the hour when the hacking gets good. Late last Friday night, over 1,000 undergraduates from across the country poured into...
View ArticleLeap Motion 3D Jam: Presented by IndieCade
Developers, start your engines! Starting on October 19th, Leap Motion and IndieCade are kicking off a six-week global competition for developers to build innovative experiences for desktop, virtual...
View ArticleHacking the Fourth Wall at IndieCade
San Francisco is a city fueled by the Cloud, both literally and figuratively. (Karl, you’re great – the bearded mystic that keeps a spring in our step and a song in our hearts – but distance makes the...
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Bending Music and Spacetime with Leap Motion + VR
Ever wondered how a subatomic particle feels as it accelerates through the supercollider on the road to annihilation? From the developer behind Kyoto and Lotus, Collider is a new audiovisual experience...
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Getting Started with Unity (and the Oculus Rift)
Just in time for the 3D Jam, we’ve rolled out an update to our setup guide for Unity, along with a brand-new asset! With Rift/Desktop, your project will be able to recognize whether an Oculus Rift is...
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Troubleshooting Guide for VR Tracking
Running into issues with head-mounted tracking mode? While VR tracking is still in developer beta (with known issues that we’re constantly whittling down) we often hear from developers running into...
View ArticleBuilding the 3D Web with Mozilla + Leap Motion
How pervasive will virtual reality be? VR has the power to fundamentally transform the way we learn, play, share and even browse the web. Mozilla’s recent experiments combining VR and the web pave a...
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