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GUEST   / 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
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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 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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Mozilla WebVR + Leap Motion interaction
LM   / October 23, 2014 / Leave a Comment

Building 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 path towards virtual presence – pushing beyond disconnected feelings of immersion and bringing us into new places with a life of their own.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Free and Open Source, JavaScript, Leap Motion Team, OS Interaction, UX Design, V2 Tracking
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LM   / October 7, 2014 / Leave a Comment

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 California Memorial Stadium for Cal Hacks, a 36-hour coding spree put on by Major League Hacking. Sponsors ranging from tech’s biggest players to […]

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Education, Events, Free and Open Source, Gaming, Hardware, JavaScript, Leap Motion Team, Music, OS Interaction, Unity, UX Design, V2 Tracking
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LM   / September 13, 2014 / Leave a Comment

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 insights sprung forth. Now that many of you have received your VR Developer Mounts, we thought we’d share.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Free and Open Source, Hardware, Leap Motion Team, OS Interaction, Unity, UX Design, V2 Tracking
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GUEST   / August 24, 2014 / Leave a Comment

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 hugely important to building the next generation of real-world interfaces. In this two-part video, we look at some of the most compelling […]

Art & Design, Education, Gaming, Hardware, Leap Motion Team, OS Interaction, UX Design
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LM   / May 23, 2014 / Leave a Comment

Don’t Settle for Air Pokes: Thinking Outside the Mouse

Mapping legacy interactions like mouse clicks or touchscreen taps to air pokes often results in unhappy users. Let’s think beyond the idea of “touch at a distance” and take a look at what it means when your hand is the interface.

Leap Motion Team, OS Interaction, UX Design
LM   / September 26, 2013 / Leave a Comment

Free New App for Basic Computer Control: HandWAVE

Are you ready to turn up the volume with a spin of your finger? Browse web pages and documents with a hand tilt? Check out HandWAVE, the latest computer control app now available in the Airspace Store. Free for Mac and Windows, HandWAVE is a simple, intuitive gesture-based app that runs in the background so […]

App Store, Leap Motion, OS Interaction
LM   / August 6, 2013 / Leave a Comment

Try Your Hand at these Apps for OS Interaction

Over the last two weeks, lots of people have taken their #FirstLeap with OS interaction using the Leap Motion Controller. While traditional interfaces are designed for 2D interactions, our developers are exploring new ways of bringing 3D interactivity to your desktop. At Leap Motion, we want to enable you to choose your favorite OS apps […]

Gaming, Leap Motion, OS Interaction
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