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Leap Motion (not to be confused with Magic Leap) will release specifications for a $100 augmented reality headset:
Gesture interface company Leap Motion is announcing an ambitious, but still very early, plan for an augmented reality platform based on its hand tracking system. The system is called Project North Star, and it includes a design for a headset that Leap Motion claims costs less than $100 at large-scale production. The headset would be equipped with a Leap Motion sensor, so users could precisely manipulate objects with their hands — something the company has previously offered for desktop and VR displays.
Project North Star isn't a new consumer headset, nor will Leap Motion be selling a version to developers at this point. Instead, the company is releasing the necessary hardware specifications and software under an open source license next week. "We hope that these designs will inspire a new generation of experimental AR systems that will shift the conversation from what an AR system should look like, to what an AR experience should feel like," the company writes.
[...] While Leap Motion is citing an impressive price and field of view, Project North Star isn't (as far as we can see) meant to one-up headsets like HoloLens and Magic Leap. It's supposed to offer great hand interactions, but not advanced room-scale tracking, interaction with your environment, or a self-contained design. The design could be helpful for small players that want to experiment with augmented reality hardware, while requiring relatively little investment from Leap Motion itself.
Also at VentureBeat.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @07:48PM (6 children)
That's all we need. That's it.
We don't need gesture tracking.
We don't need motion sensors.
That's all we've ever needed, and it could have been delivered decades ago.
(A|V)R will always be shit, because these smartypants are trying way too hard to do too much. We could have had 2 decades of technological progress on stereoscopic 3D imaging, but we missed it.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 09 2018, @07:57PM
What you need is a View-Master and a straitjacket. VR and AR are here to stay.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @08:09PM (3 children)
Project North Star: You are already dead.
Stereoscopic 3d imaging: What?!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 09 2018, @08:11PM (2 children)
*Nani?!
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @08:26PM (1 child)
True, the English word what just doesn't have the impact that 何 does as an exclamation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @10:07PM
啥?!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 09 2018, @08:24PM
Let's fully anal-yze your shitty post:
A bit presumptuous, aren't wwwwwweeeeee?
Interaction? Fuck that! I'd rather sit on my EZ-Chair looking at View-Master porn.
Nothing says immersive like an image that doesn't change in response to your movements.
Damn, Anonstradamus just condemned the technology FOREVER!
How dare they work on irrelevant things like smartphone displays and repurpose them for VR!
You could have gone into the attic and retrieved your View-Master, you lazy fuck.
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