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GUEST   / April 16, 2014 / Leave a Comment

Inside the Leap Motion AXLR8R: 90 Seconds with GetVu

Imagine a fully interactive augmented reality – an extra layer on top of our world that we can see, grab, and control. At the LEAP.AXLR8R, GetVu is exploring the boundaries of augmented reality with a platform that combines computer vision with human vision in a wearable device. With Leap Motion interaction, they envision a future where virtual games, architectural models, and 3D designs can live in the real world.

With GetVu’s platform, you could change the colors of a proposed building project on your city’s skyline or play foosball on your kitchen table. With augmented reality taken beyond the limits of the smartphone or tablet, you could look around, see the world for what it could be, and change it with a wave of your hand.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Hardware, Leap Motion Team
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LM   / April 15, 2014 / Leave a Comment

Newsletter 59 – Build and command your own Lego robot

Everything is awesome with robots. This week on Developer Labs, see how you can build your own Leap Motion-controlled Lego® robot, and how NASA continues to push the boundaries of their six-legged space rover prototype.

Also this week, we’ve streamlined our app submission process, and built two new LeapJS plugins for you. Plus, an update from the AXLR8R team building a real-time sign language translator, thoughts on how to mount the Oculus Rift, and building light and sound boundaries through interactive art. To subscribe to our developer newsletter and get updates through email, click here.

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GUEST   / April 15, 2014 / Leave a Comment

Giving Deaf People a Voice: MotionSavvy’s Real-Time Sign Language Translation

What if you spoke a different language than your friends and family? For many deaf people who communicate through sign language, this is an everyday reality. The people at MotionSavvy are breaking down these barriers by combining Leap Motion technology with language translation software. Being deaf themselves, they all have a personal stake in building a more expressive future. Their debut product, the UNI tablet, is now available for pre-order.

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LM   / April 13, 2014 / Leave a Comment

NASA & The Future of Human Technology Interfaces

When the first boots of a human being land on Mars, imagine being able to RSVP and attend the event from your living room and actually feel like you were there, right next to the astronauts. Equipped with versions of the augmented and virtual reality technologies currently under exploration at NASA, this is an incredibly real possibility.

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Events, Leap Motion Team
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LM   / April 11, 2014 / Leave a Comment

Change the World with the Space Apps Challenge

One of the biggest obstacles to scientific understanding is our limited ability to interact with technology and big data. This weekend, thousands of people around the world will unite in a massive international hackathon – solving global problems with the power of data and code. From human spaceflight and hardware hacks, to understanding asteroids and climate change, they’ll build open-source solutions to some of our toughest problems.

Created by NASA, the International Space Apps Challenge spans six continents and over 90 cities. People can also participate virtually online. The goal? To advance space exploration and improve life on our little planet.

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LM   / April 9, 2014 / Leave a Comment

Synesthesia on a Snowy Evening

When Craig Winslow and Justin Kuzma paint interactive digital media directly onto the physical world, your senses feast in unexpected ways. Last fall, they delivered Growth, an immersive forest of trees you could manipulate and command with your hands in the air. Their most recent Leap Motion installation, ZX, went up this February in Vermont, where the team installed the 10-foot geometric structure in a snowy courtyard at Champlain College.

ZX combines projection mapping with Leap Motion technology to explore the boundaries of color and sound in 3D space. A strong tone welcomes you as you hover your hands over the Controller. Bells chime as you wiggle your fingers. The higher you lift your hands, the brighter the color. Reaching your fingers forward makes for richer saturation, while panning your hand left or right adjusts hue. Hues pan left and right in the stereo speakers, so that your hands begin to define the limits of an intangible field of view.

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Art & Design, Leap Motion, UX Design
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LM   / April 9, 2014 / Leave a Comment

How ZX Creates Boundaries with Light and Sound

Earlier this year, visitors to Champlain College in Vermont discovered a strange shape emerging from the snowy campus courtyard. Created by Craig Winslow and Justin Kuzma, the duo behind last year’s immersive forest experience Growth, ZX is a 10-foot geometric structure that combines projection mapping with Leap Motion technology.

Recently, we caught up with Craig to ask him about how ZX was created, including its unique interaction design. By using visual and audio feedback, Craig was able to create a compelling experience where the interaction space of the Leap Motion Controller became as intuitive as touch.

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Art & Design, Developer Labs, UX Design
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LM   / April 8, 2014 / Leave a Comment

Newsletter 58 – Hackathon life and creative coding

Will 2014 be the year of the hackathon? These massive coding parties are popping up everywhere, inspiring everything from nostalgic ’90s experiments to online real-time collaborative 3D tools. This week on Developer Labs, take a look into the wild world of student hackathons – including two web demos with Leap Motion control.

Also new this week, AXLR8R teams are changing online animation and robotic controls. Grammy-nominated artist BT has created a new music app. Plus, Facebook in virtual reality, projection-mapped fashion, and how the Leap Motion Controller can help educators. To subscribe to our developer newsletter and get updates through email, click here.

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GUEST   / April 8, 2014 / Leave a Comment

The Collegiate Hackathon Community: Every Computer Science Student’s Dream-Come-True

My news feeds are different. Suddenly I find them full of hackathon hype and posts about the tech startup industry. It wasn’t always like that; just six months ago I only personally was friends with a handful of other software engineers, and we didn’t even interact that much.

Fast forward to today, and I’m making connections with really accomplished developers from all over the US on a weekly basis. And I’m working and building useful things with them all the time. Now there’s this community of really talented people with more awesome ideas than I possibly have time to collaborate with. Everyone’s friending and following each other. It’s great.

I imagine all the ‘normal’ people on my friends list are probably just really confused.

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Events, Gaming, Guest Posts, JavaScript
GUEST   / April 8, 2014 / Leave a Comment

Leapouts: Collaborative 3D Modelling in Google Hangouts

Hi, we’re Sam and Kartik – a computer science at the University of Bristol in England, and a computational physics student at the University of Waterloo in Canada. This past Valentine’s Day, we decided to embrace the engineer’s stereotype and spend it at the University of Pennsylvania, coding up a cool creation as part of the PennApps hackathon.

After a very hectic 36 hours of coding we presented our hack – Leapouts, a collaborative 3D model builder, controlled with Leap Motion interaction, that runs inside a Google Hangout. We’ve made a demo available for you to try at leapouts.com. But how did we build it over a weekend without ever having used the Leap Motion API, Firebase, or Three.js before?

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Art & Design, Events, Gaming, Guest Posts, UX Design
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