Controlling a Parrot AR.Drone with Leap Motion + Cylon.js
Following my tutorial on controlling the Sphero using the Leap Motion, I thought I would keep on converting my Node.js projects to Cylon.js and work on controlling an AR.Drone with Leap Motion. If...
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Designing VR Tools: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
VR is a double-edged sword. While many experiences can feel like a digital wonderland, one misstep can create a nausea-inducing assault on the senses. At a recent Designers + Geeks talk, Jody Medich...
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6 Principles of Leap Motion Interaction Design
Interaction design can be a delicate balancing act, especially when developing for VR. In the process of building applications and various UX experiments at Leap Motion, we’ve come up with a useful set...
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Reach Into Jupiter’s Biggest Moon: A Massive Leap Motion Art Experience
Tomorrow in Montreal, audience members at the IX Symposium will see one of Jupiter’s moons appear inside a 60-foot dome. But this isn’t something you can find in a telescope – it’s a trippy virtual...
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An Alien Spaceship into the Twittersphere
The frustrating thing about raw Twitter data is that it tends to remove the very element that makes the platform so interesting in the first place: the nuance of human sentiment. But what if you could...
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“Our Kids Are Going to Get Really Weird” – David Holz on AR/VR in 2022
What if you could see through walls like Superman? Beyond the tiny window of our senses, there’s a vast world that we can’t normally access. But that’s going to change. At last week’s SVVR conference,...
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Bring Your Own Hands Into Virtual Reality
New Unity Asset Lets You See Your Actual Hands — Not Just a Rigged Replica Using our existing hand assets, you can already reach into a demo and see robot hands, minimal hands, even realistic hands for...
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Kolor’s VR Movies Let You Paraglide with Batman (Seriously)
Hot-air balloons floating hundreds of feet above the ground. A fighter jet soaring through the sky. A rock concert in Rio. And, of course, a paraglider dressed up as Batman, complete with Batmobile....
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Featured Platform: Getnamo’s Community Plugin for Unreal Engine 4
One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. That’s why we’ve launched a Platform Integrations & Libraries showcase...
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Twist the Gears of a Massive VR Music Engine with Carillon
When virtual reality and musical interface design collide, entire universes can be musical instruments. Created by artists Rob Hamilton and Chris Platz for the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, Carillon is a...
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Featured Platform: Building the Metaverse from Today’s Web with JanusVR
The prospect of existing within the Internet is a concept straight from science fiction, but one we’ve been helping to build for some time. Simply gazing upon the Internet is starting to look a bit...
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Featured Platform: Put an End to Boring Presentations with Reveal.js
One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. That’s why we’ve launched a Platform Integrations & Libraries showcase...
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How to Integrate Leap Motion with Arduino & Raspberry Pi
For hardware hackers, boards like Arduino and Raspberry Pi are the essential building blocks that let them mix and mash things together. But while these devices don’t have the processing power to run...
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Augment Your Arm: Designing 3D Printed Wearables on Your Skin
As our physical reality becomes increasingly augmented, creative coders are able to access a whole new trove of intriguing possibilities. Several weeks back, we stumbled upon one such experiment called...
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The Alignment Problem: How to Position Cameras for Augmented Reality
To scale or not to scale? When it comes to augmented reality, the right camera alignment and scale are absolutely essential to bridging the gap between real and virtual worlds. And as developers are...
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Featured Platform: Build Visually Stunning Experiences with Processing
One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. That’s why we’ve launched a Platform Integrations & Libraries showcase...
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Touch All the Things! How to Make Everything Interactive
Want to transform literally any physical surface into a fully interactive button? Touch Everything is an open source C++ demo from Russian design agency The Family that shows how you can rapidly create...
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Music Video Calls in the SWAT Team for Dirty Dish Crimes
Music videos have evolved significantly since TRL. Last week, we were thrilled to come across a new release from Darwin Deez called Kill Your Attitude, where the perils of modern love take some truly...
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Firework Factory VR: Touch the Show this Fourth of July
Boom! The white globe in front of you explodes into an array of color and light. A fraction of a second later – whoosh! – glowing stars streak past your head, leaving you in their colorful wake....
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This is Your Brain. This is Your Brain in VR.
Have you ever received an MRI scan back from the lab and thought to yourself, “I’m not sure how even a medical professional could derive any insightful information from this blast of murky images?”...
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