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GUEST   / March 6, 2015 / Leave a Comment

CAD Experiment: Disassemble a Spherical Robot in VR

What if you could disassemble a robot at a touch? Motion control opens up exciting possibilities for manipulating 3D designs, with VR adding a whole new dimension to the mix. Recently, Battleship VR and Robot Chess developer Nathan Beattie showcased a small CAD experiment at the Avalon Airshow. Supported by the School of Engineering, Deakin University, the demo lets users take apart a small spherical robot created by engineering student Daniel Howard.

Nathan has since open sourced the project, although the laboratory environment is only available in the executable demo for licensing reasons. Check out the source code at github.com/Zaeran/CAD-Demo.

Art & Design, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Free and Open Source, Guest Posts, Unity, UX Design
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GUEST   / February 17, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Widgets 2.1.0: Featuring Dial Picker + Data Binding

The latest version of Widgets is now available through our Unity Core Assets! Version 2.1.0 introduces the Dial Picker Widget and data binding model, along with several performance optimizations.

After you download the latest demo and experiment with Widgets in your own projects, we’d like to get your thoughts as we forge ahead towards a full release. More on that later, but first, here’s what you’ll find in 2.1.0.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, Unity, UX Design
LM   / February 11, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Simple, Elegant, Fun: Hauhet + Paper Plane by VRARlab

Today’s spotlight is a double-feature, as development studio VRARlab have two games in the 3D Jam top 20! Hauhet is a futuristic VR puzzle game, while Paper Plane lets you fly a plane through golden rings.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Gaming, Leap Motion Team, Unity
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LM   / February 8, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Exploring the Structure of UI Widgets

Hi, I’m Wilbur Yu! You might remember me from such webcasts as Let’s Play! Soon You Will Fly and Getting Started with VR. In this post, we’ll look at how we structured Widgets to be as accessible and comprehensive as possible.

Art & Design, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Education, Free and Open Source, Leap Motion Team, Unity, UX Design
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LM   / February 7, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Designing the Widgets Event and Data-Binding Model

Daniel here again! This time around, I’ll talk a bit about how we handled integrating the UI Widgets into the data model for Planetarium, and what this means for you.

The first iteration of Widgets we released to developers was cut almost directly from a set of internal interaction design experiments. They’re useful for quickly setting up a virtual reality interface, but they’re missing some pieces to make them useable in a robust production application. When we sat down to build Planetarium, the need for an explicit event messaging and data-binding layer became obvious.

Art & Design, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Education, Free and Open Source, Leap Motion Team, OS Interaction, Unity
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LM   / February 6, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Traveling Around the Globe (and Under the Sky) in Planetarium

One of the major features of Planetarium is the ability to travel around the globe using motion controls. While this approach is still rough and experimental, we learned a lot from its development that we’d like to share. Later on in the post, we’ll even take a look under the hood at the code involved with the movement and spinning physics that tie everything together.

Art & Design, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Education, Free and Open Source, Leap Motion Team, Unity, UX Design
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LM   / February 4, 2015 / Leave a Comment

A Brief History of Time Dial

At Leap Motion, we’ve been working on new resources to make developing VR/AR applications easier, including Widgets – fundamental UI building blocks for Unity. In part 3, Barrett talks about the strange physics bugs we encountered with Time Dial.

One of our new VR Widgets, the Time Dial, surprised (and indeed amused!) us at several special moments during our intense production push. The Time Dial Widget is our hand-enabled VR interpretation of a typical touch interface’s Date Picker. We built it with a combination of Wilbur Yu’s Widget interaction base, Daniel’s data-binding framework (more on those two later), and a graphic front-end that I coded and built – again using Unity’s new 3D GUI.

Art & Design, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Education, Free and Open Source, Leap Motion Team, OS Interaction, Unity
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LM   / January 29, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Dodge, Dip, Dive, Duck… and Destroy! with Corridor 17: An Endless VR Runner

A mix between endless runner and shoot ’em up, Studio 17’s Corridor 17 blends old-school and new-school game design tactics in a VR environment. Players can pilot the ship with their head using the Oculus Rift DK2, while freeing up his or her hands to control the weapon system. It’s available free for Mac and Windows on the Leap Motion App Store.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Gaming, Leap Motion Team, Unity
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GUEST   / January 28, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Myst Meets H.P. Lovecraft: Behind the Design of Deify

Over the next several weeks, we’re spotlighting the top 20 3D Jam experiences chosen by the jury and community votes. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward. Inspired by games like Myst and the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Wikkit Gate’s 19th-place entry Deify takes you […]

App Store, Art & Design, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Gaming, Leap Motion Team
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LM   / January 23, 2015 / Leave a Comment

So Meta: Spiraling Beyond the Point-and-Click with Tran;section

Tran;section is a multi-layer experience for the Oculus Rift with an Inception-style game-within-a-game. Starting off in an alienating office environment, you escape the boredom of your surroundings with a 2D platformer. But then the borders between the two worlds start to blur. We caught up with Han-Yu Wang, one of six developers on the project.

App Store, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Gaming, Leap Motion Team, Unity
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