Leap Motion has announced it's to early access to the beta of its Interaction Engine, a set of systems designed to help developers implement compelling, realistic and hopefully frustration-free input with just their hands. If you've ever spent time with a...

Catching up with Leap Motion at CES 2016 last week, CEO Michael Buckwald tells us about the company's latest work like the Interaction Engine and newly reprojected hands. Buckwald also says that Leap Motion tech will ship in hardware...

Leap Motion continues to refine their hand-tracking tech for intuitive controller-free interactivity. The company's latest focus has been on an 'Interaction Engine' which usurps standard physics engines when it comes to defining interactions between user input and virtual objects. Leap...

Motion sensing peripheral specialists Leap Motion's second development event '3D Jam' has had over 180 submissions for projects that fuse the Leap's input capabilities with virtual reality. This entry 'VRez', inspired by classic Dreamcast shooter Rez, caught our eye as a...

Leap Motion has announced that they'll be hosting their second 3D Jam this year, a developer competition to spur the creation of experiences making use of the company's motion input controller. Once again the company has laid out a $50,000...

There's a coming tide of VR peripherals on the horizon, and haptic gloves represent a compact, and (relatively) cost-efficient solution among the multi-pronged challenge that is VR input. While infrared depth cameras like Leap Motion and Microsoft Kinect can facilitate...

Leap Motion are furthering their commitment to the Open Source Virtual Reality initiative. They're working with OSVR to produce a Leap Motion enabled faceplate for the project's flagship VR Headset, the HDK. The OSVR initiative, spearheaded by VR headset veterans...

In a new technical demo from Leap Motion's labs, you can use your hands to soar through space and manipulate entire constellations with mere gestures. The Planetarium aims to illustrate ideas in virtual reality user interfaces and demonstrate the...

Sander Sneek, developer of Soundscape VR and semi-finalist in the IndieCade Leap Motion 3D Jam, has recently issued an update to his beat-mixing jam machine that adds a few more bells and whistles, fleshing out the demo to an experience that...

At CES 2015 last week, we met up with Leap Motion co-founders Michael Buckwald and David Holz to try their latest prototype motion input camera, codenamed 'Dragonfly', and chat with the duo to learn more about their plans for making...

With a recent pivot toward virtual reality, Leap Motion is continuing to discover useful ways to use their motion input controller for virtual reality. The company has devised a new gesture which activates and deactivates passthrough camera functionality with a...

Leap Motion's '3D Jam' dev contest, presented by the independent games festival IndieCade, is now officially over and the results are in. Among the 20 semi-finalists, who were awarded over $75,000 in prizes by a jury composed of Leap...

Have a hard time getting past the character selection screen of video games because you're too busy picking out the perfect clothes and styling your hair just right? If so, there's some fashion-oriented VR applications popping up that might be right down...

IndieCade announced the top 20 semi-finalists of the Leap Motion '3D Jam' yesterday. The lucky 20 entrants will go on to compete for the first prize of $5,000 cash and $2,500 in travel costs to send them to IndieCade East 2015...

Leap Motion's '3D Jam' is a developer competition sponsored by IndieCade, and centers around the popular 3D motion controller, Leap Motion. With contestants vying for $75,000 in prizes, you can imagine that the competition to produce interactive environments that...