Leap Motion - Major update

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Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows, alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

  • Better finger dexterity and fidelity
  • Significantly smoother hand and finger tracking, with motions that look and feel more natural
  • Faster and more consistent hand initialization
  • Better hand pose stability and reliability
  • Improved tracking fidelity against complex backgrounds and extreme lighting
  • More accurate shape and scale for hands

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Why I am bringing it here? well, It perhaps could be a great integration for Pimax 4K users, does Pimax PIPLAY officially support Leap Motion for hands controlling in games ?

@Heliosurge @deletedpimaxrep1 @jascjazz

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You know all testers have Pimax 8K units with Leap Motion attachments?

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That’s new to me :slight_smile: So they attached the leap motion module to the 8K unit?

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Sebastian: BREAKING: Ich Bin Einer Der 10 Pimax 8K M1 Tester - Gerät Bereits Eingetroffen! - YouTube
Sweviver: PIMAX 8K M1 (BETA TESTING UNIT) HAS ARRIVED! - YouTube
VoodooDE: EILMELDUNG: VoodooDE erhält die Pimax 8K M1 - Alle Infos + Test-Tagebuch ab jetzt bei mir! - YouTube

Please click on the links to see the units they have. Its on the underside of the blue chevron unit.

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I see, imbedded leap motion, interesting!

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I have the original Leap Motion and I’m a big fan of the tracking, it was close to perfect already imo so I’m very curious to see what applications will be developed now that they made it even better.

If they improve wand emulation more then I will definitely be buying. Because hands-free VR control is to wands as 200 fov is to 110.

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The cool thing about Leap Motion is that they improve the technology using software without lure clients to buy new units. That’s pretty awesome, means their hardware is ages forward and just software wasn’t ready to take the full potential of the hardware.

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Understandable too. It’s interpretation of a video feed really

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Now this will be good news overall. But Leap motion v2 is at present only available as integrated item.

Which means headsets that don’t have them built in have to use v1.

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Actually… could be fun seeing someone printing in 3D a shape that can be nicely glued in bottom of P4K and inside this shape place the Leap Motion V1 pcb…. then make a tiny hole in P4K to allow Leap Motion get electricity feed and connection to PC from within the P4K’s USB module and basically…you will get P4K with hands tracking haha :slight_smile:

Microsoft Paint Work :slight_smile:

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What can you actually do with leap motion? Can you use it in any games?

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Why not :slight_smile:

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Would it still work if you had a mock up of a weapon in your hand . I guess not because it would be difficult to track the index finger. It looks pretty cool though.

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Basically if I understand right, you can as developer code any rules for Leap Motion, so lets say, you code a rule that if it sees a shape of a gun, then it will find your trigger finger etc…

Maybe this one helps

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That would be awesome. You could have a holsted hand gun + a shoulder strapped 2 handed weapon . I hate using two handed weapons with the touch controllers.

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The v1 is mounted at eye level, I wonder how well the undermount of the v2 compares

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Leap motion is just Announcing “Project North Star” which is a full AR platform that lets us chart a world where digital and physical.

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