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LM   / October 7, 2017 / Leave a Comment

Design Sprints at Leap Motion: Building a Sculpture Prototype with the Graphic Renderer

With the next generation of mobile VR/AR experiences on the horizon, our team is constantly pushing the boundaries of our VR UX developer toolkit. Recently we created a quick VR sculpture prototype that combines the latest and greatest of these tools.

The Leap Motion Interaction Engine lets developers give their virtual objects the ability to be picked up, thrown, nudged, swatted, smooshed, or poked. With our new Graphic Renderer Module, you also have access to weapons-grade performance optimizations for power-hungry desktop VR and power-ravenous mobile VR.

In this post, we’ll walk through a small project built using these tools. This will provide a technical and workflow overview as one example of what’s possible – plus some VR UX design exploration and performance optimizations along the way.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, Orion, Unity, UX Design
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LM   / June 15, 2017 / Leave a Comment

Beyond Flatland: User Interface Design for VR

Explorations in VR Design is a journey through the bleeding edge of VR design – from architecting a space and designing groundbreaking interactions to making users feel powerful. Explore our latest XR guidelines → Art takes its inspiration from real life, but it takes imagination (and sometimes breaking a few laws of physics) to create […]

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, Orion, Unity, UX Design
LM   / June 7, 2017 / Leave a Comment

Interaction Engine 1.0: Object Interactions, UI Toolkit, Handheld Controller Support, and More

As humans, we are spatial, physical thinkers. From birth we grow to understand the objects around us by the rules that govern how they move, and how we move them. These rules are so fundamental that we design our digital realities to reflect human expectations about how things work in the real world. At Leap […]

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, Orion, Unity, UX Design
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LM   / March 14, 2017 / Leave a Comment

Space and Perspective in VR

Creating a sense of space is one of the most powerful tools in a VR developer’s arsenal. In our Exploration on World Design, we looked at how to create moods and experiences through imaginary environments. In this Exploration, we’ll cover some key spatial relationships in VR, and how you can build on human expectations to create a sense of […]

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, UX Design
LM   / December 28, 2016 / Leave a Comment

The Art of Storytelling and Narrative in VR

Explorations in VR Design is a journey through the bleeding edge of VR design – from architecting a space and designing groundbreaking interactions to making users feel powerful. Explore our latest XR guidelines → Stories are how we make sense of the world. One of the most effective ways to draw a user into any […]

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, Orion, UX Design
LM   / December 10, 2016 / Leave a Comment

Designing Physical Interactions for Objects That Don’t Exist

Explorations in VR Design is a journey through the bleeding edge of VR design – from architecting a space, to designing groundbreaking interactions, to making users feel powerful. Virtual reality is a world of specters, filled with sights and sounds that offer no physical resistance when you reach towards them. This means that any interactive […]

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, Orion, UX Design
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LM   / December 1, 2016 / Leave a Comment

Ergonomics in VR Design

Explorations in VR Design is a journey through the bleeding edge of VR design – from architecting a space, to designing groundbreaking interactions, to making users feel powerful. What’s the most important rule in VR? Never make your users sick. In this exploration, we’ll review the essentials of avoiding nausea, positive ergonomics, and spatial layouts […]

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, Orion, UX Design
LM   / December 1, 2016 / Leave a Comment

Designing for Orion Tracking: A Quick Guide

Explorations in VR Design is a journey through the bleeding edge of VR design – from architecting a space, to designing groundbreaking interactions, to making users feel powerful. Explore our latest XR guidelines → Last week, we saw how interactive design centers on human expectations. Of course, it also begins with the hardware and software […]

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, Orion, UX Design
LM   / November 22, 2016 / Leave a Comment

Building Blocks: A Deep Dive Into Leap Motion Interactive Design

Explorations in VR Design is a journey through the bleeding edge of VR design – from architecting a space, to designing groundbreaking interactions, to making users feel powerful. In the world of design, intuition is a dangerous word. In reality, no two people have the same intuitions. Instead, we’re trained by our physical experiences and […]

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, Orion, UX Design
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LM   / November 17, 2016 / Leave a Comment

World Design: Setting the Stage

Explorations in VR Design is a journey through the bleeding edge of VR design – from architecting a space, to designing groundbreaking interactions, to making users feel powerful. Designing the stage where your users will play is an incredibly important part of VR. Like an architect or a set designer, you have the power to […]

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, Orion, UX Design
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