{"id":22283,"date":"2016-02-17T23:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T07:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/leap-motions-new-motion-sensing-tech-is-built-for-vr"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:10:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:10:37","slug":"leap-motions-new-motion-sensing-tech-is-built-for-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/leap-motions-new-motion-sensing-tech-is-built-for-vr","title":{"rendered":"Leap Motion\u2019s new motion-sensing tech is built for VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/leap-motions-new-motion-sensing-tech-is-built-for-vr.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For several years now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/22\/leap-motion-is-perfecting-natural-hand-gestures-for-vr\/\">Leap Motion<\/a> has been working on bringing hand gestures to virtual reality. And it makes sense; using your hands to move digital objects is way more natural than fiddling with a controller. But to do this, you needed to strap one of the company\u2019s motion sensor peripherals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/08\/28\/leap-motion-s-next-sensor-is-designed-specifically-for-virtual-r\/\">in front of an existing VR headset<\/a>, which is a little clunky to say the least. Plus, the sensor was still running the same software built for desktop PCs; a holdover from the days when Leap Motion\u2019s main focus was the aforementioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/07\/22\/leap-motion-controller-review\/\">PC accessory<\/a>. Now, however, the company is ready to take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/08\/28\/leap-motion-s-next-sensor-is-designed-specifically-for-virtual-r\/\">next leap forward<\/a>. Today it\u2019s announcing Orion, a brand new hardware and software solution that\u2019s built just for VR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/02\/17\/leap-motion-orion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years now, Leap Motion has been working on bringing hand gestures to virtual reality. And it makes sense; using your hands to move digital objects is way more natural than fiddling with a controller. But to do this, you needed to strap one of the company\u2019s motion sensor peripherals in front of an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68400,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22283\/revisions\/68400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}