North Star Archives

Magic Leap One’s field of view leak signals another AR disappointment

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 31, 2018
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Developers have apparently unearthed details on Magic Leap One's field of view -- the "augmented" portion of your vision -- and it's only a little better than Microsoft's HoloLens, not the great leap forward people have been expecting.

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Leap Motion uses AR table tennis to demo North Star headset

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 20, 2018
2 min

After revealing and open-sourcing its DIY $100 augmented reality headset North Star, Leap Motion has created a compelling reason to actually assemble one -- AR table tennis.

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Leap Motion open-sources North Star AR headset design and guide

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 6, 2018
2 min

Back in April, Leap Motion announced Project North Star, a next-generation augmented reality headset that the company said could be produced for $100 at...

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Holograms were the fantasy; VR and AR are the reality

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 14, 2018
3 min

Like flying cars and robot assistants, holograms have spent almost my entire life being “only a few years away” from ubiquity. The hologram rush began...

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Leap Motion shows crazy-looking $100 North Star AR headset with hand tracking

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 9, 2018
2 min

Best known for its standalone hand-tracking accessory, Leap Motion announced today that it’s bringing gesture controls into an inexpensive augmented reality headset, hoping to kickstart...

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