Virtual reality lets the user be immersed into a virtual world --- with the help of VR headsets. However, this reality feels often break down when users grab things using input devices such as controllers, trackpads, or gamepads, and especially on mobile VR with lesser efficient smartphones. Leap Motion, an organization that specializes in glove-fewer hand and finger gesture input, unveiled a new platform --- to deliver that very same freedom of motion and input to mobile virtual reality.
Mobile virtual reality counterparts such as Google Dream and Google Cardboard are mostly looked forward to as tech demos, unlike those of PC-dependent platforms such as Oculus and Vive. While mobile virtual reality offers a relatively young experience for users and shows them what's achievable, it doesn't instigate a long-term investment for involved gadgets; it's also because of weaker processing competences of smartphones as compared to heavy-powered PCs needed for Oculus and Rift, reported by Slash Gear.
Leap Motion had encountered the same problem when it tried carrying its hand gesture tech to the mobile virtual reality --- and it was up to the challenge. Leap Motion's new mobile platform uses a new sensor that was reinvented with an Orion hand-tracking software --- making it possible to use hands in mobile virtual reality and making it run 10 times the speed. Leap Motion's new sensor is a small strip that can be placed into mobile head-mounted displays, making the performance smoother and more precise than ever before and was less hungry for battery power on smartphones. From 140x120 degrees of the PC version, Leap Motion also adjusted the field view to 180x180 degrees for taller people to track their hands in various distances.
Leap Motion has integrated it to the Samsung Gear VR as a single device and the tracking technology was, by far, impressive since it can correctly imitate complex movements of the hand --- tracking every single joint in the hand, all the way down to the elbow. It is also possible for testers to do just about anything with their hands, just like in the physical world, such as building, throwing, and catching blocks. However, it still had some errors --- which Leap Motion's team is currently improving, according to Digital Trends.
If Leap Motion successfully integrates this accurately, it could definitely give mobile virtual reality higher expectations and sales in the market. It will also give more portability than bigger players, but still at the expense of processing power.
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