This is absolutely freaking incredible (thanks 3DVF). vimeo.com/274179972

Now that’s SMART!

This week I rewrote the entire lighting system to operate on voxels instead of screen space heightfields. Mostly to prove to my colleague what a bad idea it was. I was wrong.

Looking into how conversational hand gestures would translate into #VR. I'm imagining something like smart hand gestures that can help visualize or explain something. This time I'm focusing specifically on selecting and grouping. #unity #leapmotion

Laser pulse passing beam splitter captured at 2.5 trillion frames per second: inrs.ca/english/actual…

In April, '17, James Somers of The New Yorker reached out & said he wanted to do a small profile of me & my longtime colleague Sanjay Ghemawat, watch us work for a few hours, maybe dinner, etc. It came out today. I think it captures our working style really well. newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

important numbers: - as least 75 different collectors (I can independently confirm, that’s correct) - some track ~200,000,000 US-based phones - some upload location 14,000+ times daily - 1,000+ apps contain such code I recommend reading in full. so wild. x.com/nytimes/status…

Google published research last week at SIGGRAPH Asia which shows occlusion will be solved in #ARCore in 2019. More robust than Niantic's ML approach or Facebook's feature point approach.

Hey guys. For people like me who has been waiting a looong time for Firebase to come to Unity Desktop (Mac/Windows), seems like there's a beta available right here: firebase.google.com/docs/unity/set…

Indie devs making release builds

This is both hilarious and clever by @Vice_Packet39: how to 3D scan a temple halfway across the planet without leaving your house. packet39.com/blog/2019/01/0…

This is one of the best uses of Computer Vision I've seen in a little while! healthy.io

Today, we're introducing the ultimate intelligent edge device: #HoloLens2. msft.social/l6gCix #MWC19

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We are going to the Moon — to stay. We will build sustainable infrastructure to support missions to Mars and beyond. This is what we’re building. This is what we’re training for. We are going. #Moon2024

A message to our developers: "Expect new and exciting products, but entirely new categories of technologies as well." Read our blog for more on today's announcement: blog.leapmotion.com/leap-motion-an…