This week, we made a major upgrade to the Leap Motion software, with new features in Airspace Home, along with parity among our three SDK versions. On Developer Labs, we have a new cross-promotions feature in the Airspace Store, and some insights on NUI game design from two Double Fine developers. Plus, augmented reality, interactive […]
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Bernard Drax is the man behind the Drax Files, a mixed reality YouTube channel that combines real-life interviews with in-game machinima to showcase the creations of Second Life. Launched out of Linden Lab in 2003, Second Life allows designers, developers, musicians, social activists, and historical reenactors across the world to pull ideas directly out of their imaginations and into virtual reality. The software is embedded with 3D modeling tools, allowing seasoned innovators like Drax to push the boundaries of space, form, and light. According to Drax, the capacity for immersive navigation in true 3D space has been missing in the span of his seven-year residency. Until now.
Starting this week, we’re excited to announce a brand-new feature for Leap Motion App Store developers. With cross-promotions in the store, you can now pair two apps to allow one to promote the other. To kick things off, we’re calling on developers to take advantage of this new feature by cross-promoting trial and paid versions of […]
Today, we took another major step forward in localizing our platform to countries around the world with support for 4 additional currencies – the Euro, Japanese yen, Chinese yuan, and British pound.
What does a three-dimensional slice of a four-dimensional object look like? A crowd of 300 gathered at the HTML5 Developer Conference on Tuesday night to explore how our Leap Motion SDK can answer this question and many more, as the future of Web3D crystallizes before us. Our monthly meetup series in San Francisco strives to […]
This week, indie developer HESAW’s Mafia-themed PC rail shooter Blue Estate Prologue made a big splash in the Airspace Store. Free for a limited time and designed exclusively for the Leap Motion Controller, it puts players into the shoes of a trigger-happy mobster who shoots his way through outlandish locations including a burlesque show and […]
Last week, hundreds of visitors to the Autodesk Gallery got to explore the magic of Leap Motion during Autodesk’s Design Night on Oct. 3. The Leap Motion plugin for Autodesk Maya 2014 is an incredibly powerful tool for professional designers creating in 3D space. To celebrate Halloween, the Maya team made a special character for users […]