您现在的位置是:半岛新闻网 > 新闻中心
Leap Motion's high
半岛新闻网2024-09-22 01:37:30【新闻中心】6人已围观
简介Leap Motion (not to be confused with Magic Leap) has been working on making virtual reality touchabl
Leap Motion (not to be confused with Magic Leap) has been working on making virtual reality touchable without special gloves for the last few years and now it's bringing its high-tech hand-tracking gesture technology to augmented reality.
Unlike Microsoft's HoloLens ($3,000 for developers) and Magic Leap's likely expensive Leap One AR headsets, Leap Motion's "Project North Star" AR headset will only cost under $100 to "produce at scale" meaning it could help pave the way for mainstream AR.
SEE ALSO:HTC Vive Pro is the best VR headset if you've got serious money to burnIt's important to understand that Leap Motion doesn't make or sell headsets. While the under-$100 price is extremely low, it's only an estimate of how much it would cost for another company to mass produce their own headset based on the Project Star reference design.
And if a company were to take on such a task, the actual MSRP for the headset would likely be higher. Probably a lot higher.
That said, the prototype headset Leap Motion has built is pretty good for what appears to be a low-cost option designed to build momentum for AR.
Via GiphyThe headset has two "two ultra-bright, low-persistence" displays with 1,600 x 1,440 resolution, each running at 120 frames per second. Additionally, the displays' field of view is "over 100 degrees." Those are already markedly better visual specs than what high-end VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive offer.
The most impressive part of the headset isn't the promised visual fidelity, but the built-in hand-tracking gestures. Leap Motion says it has incorporated the same 180-degree hand-tracking tech it developed several years ago into Project North Star.
With the tech, you can reach out and touch and grab virtual objects with your hands and fingers without any special glove or wand-like controllers.
Tweet may have been deletedVia Giphy
There are limitations to Leap Motion's tech. Without gloves or a handheld controller, there's no way to feel any kind of haptic feedback.
I touched on this drawback when I tried out Leap Motion's "Orion" hand-tracking tech for mobile VR headsets in 2016. That didn't stop me from completely being immersed in the virtual world, though.
"Still, the ability the touch objects in VR with my real fingers was enough to get me hooked," I wrote at the time.
A prototype of the North Star AR headset.Credit: leap motionLeap Motion's planning to open source Project North Star's hardware schematics next week. Once it's out there, it'll be up to hardware companies to figure out how to repackage the tech into something for consumers.
The company's posted a detailed dive into the headset so definitely check that out if the news has your arm hairs standing up.
While we won't be getting our hands on a headset like this anytime soon, it's good news for the entire AR platform. Touchpads and controllers are fine, but if AR is ever to become mainstream, somebody needs to figure out how to manipulate virtual objects so that it feels as natural as reach out and touching them. Good on Leap Motion for rising to the challenge.
Featured Video For You
很赞哦!(69782)
相关文章
- The Future of Tech: The Desktop PC
- Donald Trump tweets he never thought Roy Moore would beat Doug Jones.
- Courtney Cox Instagrams a perfectly
- Transcript of Slow Burn: Season 1, Episode 3.
- Alcaraz vs. Van de Zandschulp 2024 livestream: Watch US Open for free
- New virus cases stay above 400 on 2nd day of mass vaccination
- This Congressman wins the prize for the most odious attack on Bob Mueller.
- Stephen Miller falls asleep during Trump speech on school shootings
- 'Black Myth: Wukong' PS5 review in progress: A potential masterpiece
- North Korea fires two short
热门文章
站长推荐
Google Search tries new tactics for limiting explicit deepfakes
NK firm files lawsuit to collect payment from S. Korean company
Parliament seeks to toughen punishment for child abuse homicide
This is how colossal NASA's new Hubble Space Telescope successor is
多措并举优治理 绘就幸福新图景
截至10月初 全市391件单位商标到期 其中216件已失效
Chrissy Teigen calls out Donald Trump Jr.'s suspiciously amazing book sales
提供紧急救援 保障群众安全