Hand-tracking company Leap Motion is announcing a new platform that will bring its tech to mobile phone-based virtual reality headsets. The Leap Motion Mobile Platform uses two miniature cameras, embedded in a face plate, to detect finger motion that’s integrated into lower-powered VR experiences. It’s supposed to be showing up in commercial headsets next year, although we don’t know which ones.
Leap Motion began as a desktop-mounted, non-VR hand tracker, but for the past few years, developers have been able to mount it to the front of headsets like the Oculus Rift. This lets people use their hands to pick up, toss, or push objects in VR. High-end systems now mostly have their own hand controllers; in fact, the Oculus Touch controller...
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Leap Motion lets you use real hand motion in a mobile VR headset
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