Leap Motion goes Mobile; Plans to let users interact with Hands in VR
Virtual Reality does sound exciting, and with recent push from Microsoft to make it affordable, by pushing the processing power to the OS, in couple of years this might become a thing at home.
However, VR on Mobile is still limited to view only, and interaction using hands is nowhere. Leap Motion, the company known to bring gesture support to PCs is not taking a ‘leap’ into Mobile. The company has announced Leap Motion Mobile Platform, a combination of hardware, and software to bring battery-powered virtual and augmented reality to mobile devices.
It is easier said that done. We all know how much power VR consumes, and to make the whole thing run on low power, sounds difficult. The company shares
The challenges to build a tracking platform in this space have been immense. We needed to build a whole new Leap Motion sensor with higher performance and much lower power. We needed to make the most sophisticated hand tracking software in the world run at nearly 10 times the speed all while making it smoother and more accurate than ever before.
That said, they had been already working on this, and to start Leap Motion has built a reference system on top of the Gear VR. It is being shipped to VR headset makes around the world to see how it goes.
They be demoing this system at major VR events with an enhanced version of our Interaction Engine and flagship Blocks demo.
