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WadeWatts
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December 13, 2014

Using Leap Motion to Develop for Nimble VR

Very excited to hear about the Nimble VR deal. We now have a more concrete idea of what the input device will be... your hands! As Rift developers who are supporting Leap Motion in their development efforts does it make sense to consider using Leap Motion as a proxy for Nimble VR? The upside is that some things will not change... meaning you will use hands in both the Leap Motion and Nimble VR as the UI/Input device inside your title. What will change is the SDK which means you will have to rewrite the code that communicates to the API for the hand tracking.

I am imagining Oculus will make a Nimble VR kit for our DK2s available soon... Soon being a relative term as they need to do more engineering and manufacturing before this is ready for the devs... Meanwhile precious development time is marching on as we get closer to a CV1 release.

So does it make sense to use Leap Motion as a proxy while waiting for the release of Nimble VR for the Rift?

    2 replies

    conectorrrr
    Up and Coming
    January 10, 2015
    I have this leap motion device and I say NO.This device has far too small tracking volume and is too inaccurate.Pure mess- These youtube videos that show the ease of use are soo missleading.i would compare this device to eating soup with Chopsticks.You can use it for ultra simple stuff like pressing big buttons and so on but for something that requires accuracy it would meke you go nuts
    nosys70
    Up and Coming
    January 12, 2015
    there is no reason to believe that nimblevr will be a lot better than leapmotion.
    they use the same technology (cameras looking at hour hands) and are limited by the same problems (hidden parts of the hands).
    NimbleVR is basically the same as leapmotion except the product is smaller and it was a startup easier to buy than leapmotion.
    leapmotion was first designed to lay flat and see your hands from under. Since the VR trend seems to be a good market, leapmotion converted their product to also work from over the hands. both positions have problems since you can always turn you hand in a way the fingers are hidden.
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