Leap Motion’s hyper-accurate hand-tracking VR tech shines in new Orion demo

One of the first things people do when they put on a virtual reality headset is try to look down at their hands. One company has the technology to ensure that you’ll actually see them.

Leap Motion has released a new video to show the capabilities of its Orion hand-tracking technology for virtual reality. In this clip, we see someone drawing in VR using only their hands an input device. As a way of demonstrating the accuracy of Orion, the video shows how pinching your fingers together activates the 3D paint. This will enable a lot more freedom than a gamepad or even the new motion-based Oculus Touch or HTC Vive controllers. Leap Motion is also using this as its entry into a virtual and augmented reality business that tech advisor Digi-Capital think could generate as much as $120 billion by 2020.