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LM Leap Motion Developer / June 13, 2015 / Leave a Comment

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 ‘90s – but how do you go about constructing a digital universe where 2D and 3D content can coexist in a way that is both seamless and satisfying?

Meet JanusVR, a team of two VR veterans looking to reshape the way you connect to the world and its infinite digital content. Inspired in part by Snow Crash’s Metaverse, James McCrae and Karan Singh sought to build a network of VR portals within which users can collaborate, communicate, explore, and even create new 3D content.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team

integrations, janusvr, metaverse

GUEST Alex Colgan / June 9, 2015 / Leave a Comment

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 networked VR instrument that brings you inside a massive virtual bell tower. By reaching into the inner workings and playing with the gears, you can create hauntingly beautiful, complex music.

Art & Design, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Events, Leap Motion Team, Music, Unreal Engine

getnamo, orchestra, stanford

GUEST Alex Colgan / June 5, 2015 / Leave a Comment

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. These are just some of the videos that you can dive into with Kolor’s 360° video player Kolor Eyes, now featured on the Leap Motion Developer Gallery.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, New Apps

kolor, oculus rift

GUEST Alex Colgan / April 30, 2015 / Leave a Comment

The Goggles… They Do Something!

From building 3D scenes to designing object interactions, distance is an essential part of VR design that has to balance hardware needs and user instincts.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, UX Design

distance

GUEST Alex Colgan / April 28, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Can VR Change How Your Brain Works?

Vivid Vision thinks so, and they want it to help millions of people. Formerly known as Diplopia, they believe that VR can help treat common vision problems like lazy eye and cross-eye, which happen when the brain ignores input from the weaker eye. Their solution – a VR experience that combines medical research with gameplay mechanics – is now rolling out to eye clinics around the USA.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Gaming, Leap Motion Team, Medical

lazy eye, vivid vision

GUEST Jody Medich / April 25, 2015 / Leave a Comment

What Would a Truly 3D Operating System Look Like?

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. This month, we’re exploring the bleeding edge of VR design with a closer look at our VR Best Practices Guidelines.

Jody Medich is a UX designer and researcher who believes that the next giant leap in technology involves devices and interfaces that can “speak human.” In this essay, she asks how a 3D user interface could transform how we explore and understand content – by giving our brains a whole new dimension of working memory.

Art & Design, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, OS Interaction, UX Design

browser, cognitive friction

LM Leap Motion Developer / April 6, 2015 / Leave a Comment

VR Trauma and 3D Design @ LA Hacks 2015

This weekend, Team Leap Motion made the trip from San Francisco to join over 1500 students at the Pauley Pavilion. Amidst the sleeping bags, Red Bulls, and bleary-eyed jamming sessions, we watched as hundreds of hacks came to life.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Events, Free and Open Source, Leap Motion Team

la hacks

GUEST Alex Colgan / March 17, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Planetarium’s Source Code is Now Public on GitHub

This week, we’re happy to announce that the source code for Planetarium is now available on GitHub. It’s been an incredible project so far, and our team is excited to continue developing our core Widgets for VR experiences.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Code, Leap Motion Team, Unity

planetarium, widgets

GUEST Scott Kuehnert / March 8, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Building Graffiti 3D: A Journey through Space and Design

In yesterday’s post, I talked about the need for 3D design tools for VR that can match the power of our imaginations. After being inspired by street artists like Sergio Odeith, I made sketches and notes outlining the functionality I wanted. From there I researched the space, hoping that someone had created and released exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately I didn’t find it; either the output was not compatible with DK2, the system was extremely limited, the input relied on a device I didn’t own, or it was extremely expensive.

Art & Design, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Guest Posts, Unity, UX Design

3d graffiti, 3djamspotlight

GUEST Scott Kuehnert / March 7, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Express Yourself! Augmenting Reality with Graffiti 3D

What if you could create art outside the boundaries of physics, but still within the real world? For artists like Sergio Odeith, this means playing tricks with perspective. Sergio makes stunning anamorphic (3D-perspective-based) art using spray paint, a surface with a right angle, and his imagination.

Creative 3D thinkers like Odeith should have the ability to use their freehand art skills to craft beautiful volumetric pieces. Not just illusions on the corners of walls, but three-dimensional works that that people can share the same space with. This was what inspired me to create Graffiti 3D – a VR demo that I entered into the Leap Motion 3D Jam. It’s available free for Windows, Mac, and Linux on my itch.io site.