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| 19.02.2025 | Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati launches new AI start-up | Mira Murati
Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati launched an AI start-up called Thinking Machines Lab on Tuesday, with a team of about 30 leading researchers and engineers from competitors including OpenAI, Meta and Mistral.
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| 22.10.2024 | Eutelsat's Bold Leap into the Cosmos with SpaceX | Eutelsat, a titan in the satellite industry, has taken a giant leap into the cosmos. On October 21, 2024, the company launched 20 satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. This launch marks a ... |
| 21.10.2024 | Eutelsat Employs SpaceX Rocket To Launch First Satellites | Share
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Using Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Eutelsat, the third-largest satellite operator in the world by revenue, launched 20 satellites on Sunday for its communications network—its first action after the merger of two Europea... |
| 19.10.2024 | Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati to raise capital for new AI startup, sources say | Artificial IntelligenceFormer OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati to raise capital for new AI startup, sources say
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| 19.10.2024 | По словам источников, ex-CTO OpenAI Мира Мурати собирается привлечь капитал для нового стартапа в сфере ИИ | Мира Мурати, бывший технический директор OpenAI, начала привлекать венчурные инвестиции для своего нового стартапа в области искусственного интеллекта. По словам источников, её компания собирается разрабатывать ИИ-продукты на основе собстве... |
| 16.10.2024 | The Rise of DIY Motion Capture: SysMocap and the Future of Home Animation | In the world of animation and virtual reality, motion capture (mocap) has long been the gold standard. Traditionally, it required expensive equipment and professional studios. But now, a new player has entered the scene: SysMocap. This inno... |
| 13.10.2024 | SysMocap — очень простой захват движений в 3D с помощью вебкамеры. Как сделать из себя втубера? | Большое слово — Mocap
Большинство знает о mocap (захвате движений) из киноиндустрии: чёрный костюм с множеством точек на теле. Однако технологии не стоят на месте, и уже сейчас в домашних условиях для создания развлекательного контента дост... |
| 26.09.2024 | Mira Murati is latest high-profile exit from OpenAI | Mira Murati
Three top technical leaders at Microsoft-backed OpenAI quit on Wednesday, the latest in a string of executive departures this year coming at a time of flux for the ChatGPT maker.
Chief technology officer Mira Murati, vice presid... |
| 25.09.2024 | CTO OpenAI Мира Мурати заявила, что покидает компанию | В среду технический директор OpenAI Мира Мурати написала заявила о том, что она покидает компанию. По словам Мурати, она уходит, чтобы заняться собственными исследованиями, после более чем шести лет работы в ИИ-стартапе.
«После долгих размы... |
| 28.08.2024 | AI company Midjourney teases hardware product in a new form factor | Responding to this meme image of a wizard with an orb from the I.C.E. book Middle-earth: Valar and Maiar, Midjourney's founder joked that the new hardware form factor might be an orb.
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| 18.05.2023 | Global Sales of Virtual Reality (VR) are reach a industry valuation of USD 114.3 billion by 2032 - Meta, Microsoft, Sensics, Leap Motion | Global Sales of Virtual Reality (VR) are reach a industry valuation of USD 114.3 billion by 2032 - Meta, Microsoft, Sensics, Leap Motion
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| 18.10.2019 | Researchers demo AR hand tracking controls for smartphones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Leap Motion suggested years ago that it was working to bring real-time hand tracking to mobile devices — an innovation with obvious app... |
| 31.05.2019 | Разработчик использующей жесты рук AR-гарнитуры Leap Motion объединится с конкурентом | Гарнитура Project North Star, отслеживающая жесты рук. Фото: официальный блог Leap Motion
Американский стартап Leap Motion, разрабатывающий технологии управления устройствами с помощью жестов, объединится с британской UltraHaptics. Она спец... |
| 31.10.2018 | How one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups of the last 5 years blew a deal with Apple - twice | Advertisement
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Leap Motion cofounders David Holz and Michael Buckwald.
Apple has offered to buy augmented reality startup Leap Motion multiple times, most recently in the spring of 2018.
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| 21.06.2018 | Что такое VR, AR и смешанная реальность — сайты, приложения и статьи, которые помогут разобраться | Подборка UX-дизайнера Джен Салаварриеты.
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Когда я занимаюсь новыми проектами, я много времени уделяю исследованию и анализу стратегий конкурентов. Особенно если я работаю над любым VR-, AR- или MR-проектом,... |
| 09.05.2018 | 4 AR/VR Stanford student projects show the future of immersive tech | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Universities have often been a breeding ground for the tech industry’s breakthrough companies and innovations. Microsoft, Facebook, Goo... |
| 09.04.2018 | Leap Motion shows crazy-looking $100 North Star AR headset with hand tracking | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Best known for its standalone hand-tracking accessory, Leap Motion announced today that it’s bringing gesture controls into an inexpens... |
| 09.04.2018 | Стартап Leap Motion показал бюджетную AR-гарнитуру с функцией отслеживания рук | Стартап Leap Motion анонсировал выпуск AR-гарнитуры, затраты на производство которой составят около $100. Об этом говорится в блоге компании.
В рамках проекта Project North Star компания собирается создать платформу дополненной реальности с... |
| 09.04.2018 | Leap Motion’s new AR headset prototype is high-res, low-cost and a little bug-eyed | Leap Motion has been in kind of a weird place for quite a while now. They’ve raised north of $100 million for their tightly focused computer vision work hell-bent on replicating real-time hand movements, like, really well. Their work has al... |
| 26.01.2018 | VR’s poor text entry prevents mass adoption | Interfacing with our digital world through VR and AR poses many challenges to interface designers. One of the biggest problems is one that not a lot of people are discussing: straightforward text entry.
I’ve been working in VR for years. In... |
| 23.10.2017 | Authentication now comes with a wave of your hand | Two former Leap Motion employees think they’ve solved the perennial problem of passwords and identity management.
Under the nom de guerre of Redrock Biometrics, the company’s technology is waging war on the world’s legions of identification... |
| 24.08.2017 | Scott Stratten, unmarketing, and how AI is not optional for retail – VB Engage | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Travis and Stewart interview Scott Stratten, the man behind “unmarketing,” in this week’s episode of VB Engage, as part of the Unbounce... |
| 19.07.2017 | US-based Leap Motion secures $50m series C to foray into Asia | Premium
Leap Motion, the US-based creator of motion tracking technology for virtual and augmented reality, has raised $50 million in a Series C funding led by clients advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, according to the company’s annou... |
| 18.07.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, July 18 | WHERE THE BEER FLOWS LIKE WINE
Hello from Aspen again. Yesterday kicked off day one of Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference. Some highlights:
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| 18.07.2017 | Разработчик технологии бесконтактного управления компьютером Leap Motion привлёк $50 млн Статьи редакции | Американский стартап по разработке устройств для управления компьютерными процессами с помощью жестов Leap Motion привлёк $50 млн, говорится в сообщении компании. Средства пойдут в том числе на расширение деятельности.
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| 17.07.2017 | Leap Motion nabs $50M for its VR/AR hand-tracking tech | Headset-based VR and AR may be a bit slower out of the gates than many had hoped, but investors are still pouring money into startups looking to change how consumers interact with the digital world.
Leap Motion, a hand-tracking company base... |
| 17.07.2017 | Leap Motion raises $50 million for key component of VR’s growth: hand-tracking tech | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Leap Motion has raised $50 million for its virtual reality hand-tracking technology.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management led the round. It’s a... |
| 17.07.2017 | Стартап Leap Motion привлек $50 млн на разработку приложений в VR | Американский стартап Leap Motion привлек $50 млн на развитие технологий виртуальной реальности и развитие бизнеса в Азии. Об этом сообщает «Коммерсант».
Основатели стартапа планируют разрабатывать приложения виртуальной реальности в сфере о... |
| 17.07.2017 | Leap Motion Raises $50M in Series C Funding | Leap Motion, Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of motion tracking technology for natural input in virtual and augmented reality, raised $50m in Series C funding.
Backers included clients advised by JPMorgan Asset Management. As part of t... |
| 17.07.2017 | Leap Motion Announces $50M in Series C |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Leading creator of motion tracking technology for natural input in virtual and augmented reality, today announced $50 million in Series C funding.
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| 03.11.2016 | Gestures, motion interfaces to redefine computer interaction | Although gesture technologies are redefining emerging computer interactions, there is a need for major reinvention to go mainstream, says Juniper.
Gesture and motion control will become vital for certain forms of human-computer interaction ... |
| 28.08.2016 | Leap Motion’s Interaction Engine puts the handy into hand-tracking | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Controller-free hand-tracking company Leap Motion is preparing for the day we ditch our position-tracked controllers with its new Inter... |
| 26.08.2016 | Leap Motion Demonstrates How Users Can Hold Objects In VR With Its Interaction Engine | Fritz Gleyo, Tech Times 26 August 2016, 11:08 am
Virtual reality just doesn't seem immersive enough when a hand-held controller is needed for basic actions such as picking up and throwing objects. Leap Motion's new Interaction Engine may be... |
| 23.08.2016 | Leap Motion shows off Interaction Engine for their VR hand-tracking tech | VR makes the most sense when you don’t have to learn the controls and stuff just works.
Today, Leap Motion dropped an early access beta version of their Interaction Engine which makes it easier for developers to build VR environments can ad... |
| 19.08.2016 | Will the Internet of Things make us superhuman? | Scott Amyx Contributor
Scott Amyx is a thought leader, speaker and author on wearables and the Internet of Things, and is the managing partner at Venture1st and CEO of Amyx+.
We often highlight our frailties when we fail — we are, after all... |
| 20.07.2016 | Razer opens pre-orders for OSVR HDK 2 virtual reality headset | When it comes to buying a serious VR headset, to most it’s largely a question of choosing the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive. There is a second tier of lesser-known VR headsets however, and at the forefront of them is the OSVR headset.
Today, ... |
| 11.07.2016 | Sensors enabling gesture control to eye-tracking applications valued at nearly $5B | In a phone interview, Orr said the healthcare companies harnessing this sensor technology are relatively early in their development but the market opportunity is substantial.
Here are some examples of this technology with ambitions for appl... |
| 24.06.2016 | Is the future of VR NVIDIA, Sony and Apple? | Ondrej Homola Contributor
Ondrej Homola is co-founder and CEO of Lifeliqe, a platform company for the creation, sharing and deployment of interactive 3D objects into mobile, VR, AR and 3D printable media.
Virtual reality is all the buzz now... |
| 05.04.2016 | The reality of AR/VR business models | Tim Merel Contributor
Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital.
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Will Apple, Facebook or Microsoft be the future of augmented reality?
VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper)
There is nearly... |
| 07.03.2016 | 5 innovative projects from HackUMBC | One group of college students wanted to build something to get their coffee ready. Another found a way to connect music, art and science through Leap Motion.
Close to 50 teams came out to HackUMBC this weekend to dig into projects. Here are... |
| 04.03.2016 | Leap Motion’s hyper-accurate hand-tracking VR tech shines in new Orion demo | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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 te... |
| 04.03.2016 | 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 capabi... |
| 17.02.2016 | Leap Motion introduces amazing Orion hand-tracking for virtual reality | No one knows the magic of hands like Leap Motion. And that’s why the San Francisco company is introducing a new hand-tracking system so that you can use your mitts in the new virtual worlds that are becoming possible with augmented and virt... |
| 17.02.2016 | Leap Motion introduces amazing Orion hand-tracking for virtual reality | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
No one knows the magic of hands like Leap Motion. And that’s why the San Francisco company is introducing a new hand-tracking system so... |
| 10.12.2015 | Augmented And Virtual Reality 1.0 — 2016 Preview | Tim Merel Contributor
Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital.
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Will Apple, Facebook or Microsoft be the future of augmented reality?
VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper)
Samsung/Oculus’... |
| 16.09.2015 | IndieCade Festival 2015 reveals its award nominees | As 2015 continues to release one massive triple-A hit after another, IndieCade wants us all to take a moment to look at some of the smaller stuff that also makes this medium great.
IndieCade Festival 2015 is coming to Culver City, Calif. Oc... |
| 15.09.2015 | 8 projects that wowed at HopHacks | There was music, gesturing and, since this is 2015, disclaimers amid the crowd at Johns Hopkins’ twice-a-year student hackathon this weekend.
HopHacks returned for the fall semester to get students to spend a weekend tinkering, and help Maj... |
| 15.06.2015 | Stanford Virtual Reality Concert Featuring Oculus Rift And Leap Motion Controllers | Fergal Gallagher, Tech Times 15 June 2015, 12:06 pm
Concerts of the future could look very different than what we're used to, if the latest show at Stanford's Bing Concert Hall is anything to go by.
The Stanford Laptop Orchestra recently pu... |
| 09.04.2015 | Boston Children’s to host second annual Innovators’ Showcase | (Clockwise from top: T3, Surgical Sam, non-electric baby warmer, vessel-based drug delivery)
By Nancy Fliesler
Next week – on April 15 – Boston-area visitors can sample inventions and technologies from around Boston Children’s Hospital, som... |
| 27.03.2015 | Leap Motion Partners With Razer To Bring Hand Tracking Technology To OSVR Headset | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 27 March 2015, 09:03 am
The visuals are there and the killer apps are starting to come together, but the user controls for virtual reality are still questionable to many consumers. Leap Motion's jump into the VR,... |
| 25.03.2015 | Leap Motion Is Bringing Hand Tracking To The OSVR Headset In May | The open-source OSVR virtual reality headset is getting one of its first peripherals in the form of an optional faceplate that brings hand tracking to virtual reality projects via an embedded camera.
Powered by Leap Motion‘s sensors and sof... |
| 08.01.2015 | Brooklyn game creator asks: How do you code consent? | Sex is a hot topic in video games these days.
If you haven’t played a video game since R.C. Pro-AM on the NES, that might sound weird to say, but it comes up a lot here in Brooklyn, where one of the main technology hubs is the NYU Game Cent... |
| 03.10.2014 | Not All Hot Startups Live Up To Their “Change The World” Billing—And We Have Data | There has never been a better time to be an engineer, with companies feverishly competing to recruit the best and brightest. But while some engineers may be motivated to work for the highest bidder, most are driven by something more intangi... |
| 29.08.2014 | SNAP #3 – Learn Why Startups Need To Pitch And How To Hack EventBrite Tickets | When you think about it, why do Startups go through this pitching thing, standing up in front of people, struggling through trying to describe what they do. Why is it needed at all. Let Marcus explain.
Here is a video we shot at SNAP #3 on ... |
| 28.08.2014 | Leap Motion gets a head-mounted upgrade, becomes a VR controller | Enlarge / The new Leap Motion VR Developer Mount lets you attach a Leap Motion Controller to the front of an Oculus Rift DK1 or DK2 and turn your hands into gloveless VR gloves.
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| 28.08.2014 | Leap Motion Launches VR Headset Mount For Its Hand-Tracking Controller | Today Leap Motion is launching a mount for its PC peripheral that lets you track your hands in virtual reality applications by attaching it to the front of the Oculus Rift or other headsets. This mount launches simultaneously with a new ver... |
| 25.08.2014 | SNAP – Perth’s Monthly Pitch Night Is On Again This Wednesday | Hosted at Atomic Sky’s brand new TechHub in Northbridge, and MC’d by the //Startup News team, SNAP is back this month with three new brave and exciting startups.
Held the last Wednesday of each month, each event will feature a talk from an ... |
| 06.06.2014 | MotionSavvy Is A Tablet App That Understands Sign Language | There are plenty of things to take for granted in this life, and the ability to hear is one that most of the population does.
But not the team at MotionSavvy. MotionSavvy, which emerged from the Leap Motion accelerator AXLR8R, is building a... |
| 28.05.2014 | New Tracking Software Lets Leap Motion Keep Track Of Every Bone In Your Hands | Leap Motion, the company behind the desk-mounted sensor that lets you control your computer like Tony Stark in the “Iron Man” films, has today released a major update to its software development kit that lets those making apps for the devic... |
| 27.04.2014 | Greeks Build World’s Most High Tech Lamb Rotisserie | As anyone who’s ever had a Greek friend knows, we tend to have different Easters (sometimes) and do different things during them, namely, dye all our eggs red and roast a whole lamb on a spit.
I remember as a young girl in my village in Gre... |
| 01.04.2014 | Come See AllSee, UW’s New Low-Power Gesture Control System | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The chorus of Hotel California sings out from the mobile phone in Bryce Kellogg’s pocket. He waves his hand to turn down the volume. He flicks his fingers a couple of times an... |
| 20.02.2014 | Google Launches Project Tango Smartphone To Experiment With Computer Vision And 3D Sensors | Google today announced Project Tango, an Android-based prototype 5″ phone and developer kit with advanced 3D sensors out of its Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) hardware skunkworks group.
Using its sensors, the phone doesn’t just tra... |
| 31.12.2013 | 10 Startups That Changed The Narrative In 2013 | ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
Real companies making real products that real people, you know, spend real money on. That’s what ReadWrite predicted would be the hotte... |
| 23.12.2013 | Top 5 Game-Changing Gadgets of 2013 | ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
This year, we got serious about connecting our homes. We smartened up our arms and eyes. And we figured out ways to make all the screen... |
| 05.12.2013 | Founders Fund and SOSventures launch startup accelerator for Leap Motion’s gesture tech | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Founders Fund and SOSventures have joined to launch Leap Axlr8r –– a startup accelerator for companies building on Leap Motion, the ges... |
| 14.10.2013 | Pediatric patient engagement, touchless medtech and 12 other new StartUp Health members | RxApps (@rxapps) uses customizable text message prompts to help patients with chronic conditions track their health, experience, and behavior metrics that impact outcomes.
Sense Health (@sensehealth) uses text messaging between patients and... |
| 02.10.2013 | Google Acquires YC-Backed Flutter, A Gesture Recognition Technology Startup, For Around $40M | Google’s Glass, Android and other products may soon be picking up more Kinect-style gesture features: the company has bought Flutter, a Y Combinator-backed startup that focuses on gesture recognition technology. Its first and only product —... |
| 19.09.2013 | Leap Motion and HP unveil world’s first laptop with Kinect-like 3-D gesture control | Today, HP and Leap Motion unveiled the HP Envy Leap Motion SE, the world’s first laptop with built-in motion-gesture control similar to Microsoft’s Kinect camera.
The new product is possible thanks to Leap Motion’s new tiny embedded sensor,... |
| 19.09.2013 | First HP Computer With Embedded Leap Motion Tech Will Ship This Fall For $1,049.99 | Hardware startup Leap Motion, which managed to sell an impressive number of pre-orders for its standalone Leap Motion Controller gesture control computer accessory, today announced that the first fruits of its OEM partnership with PC-maker ... |
| 19.09.2013 | Leap Motion and HP unveil world’s first laptop with Kinect-like 3-D gesture control | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Today, HP and Leap Motion unveiled the HP Envy Leap Motion SE, the world’s first laptop with built-in motion-gesture control similar to... |
| 21.08.2013 | Leap Motion Controller Review | While the venerable computer mouse pre-dates many of its users, the simplistic two-dimensional pointing device still remains the de facto method for translating input from users to computers. In the decades following the mouse, joysticks, f... |
| 18.08.2013 | 3D Gesture Control Is An Area Of Focus On Innovation We Likely Don’t Need Or Want | Minority Report was an enjoyable action flick, but it may hold the blame for getting the idea stuck in our collective heads that 3D gesture control is the next frontier for computing. The Kinect from Microsoft helped further this idea aroun... |
| 14.08.2013 | Haptix Is A Gesture-Sensing Laptop Clip That Wants To Be Kinect For Accountants | As BlackBerry will now readily admit, gesture-based touchscreens have taken over from physical keyboards in the mobile space. But there’s still plenty of plastic keys on and around PCs. Not that people aren’t trying to change that. The Leap... |
| 09.08.2013 | 5 Transformative Technologies I Would Make Reality If I Won The Powerball Jackpot | The latest Powerball lottery winners just scored a collective $448 million dollars in one fell swoop. For the average American, that’s an incredible load of money to ponder and that’s just what I find myself doing—fantasizing about where I’... |
| 06.08.2013 | Don’t be Furby: What investors look for in hardware startups | When I entered the venture capital world five years ago, investing in hardware startups was essentially impossible. Sure, there were a few companies in the space, but finding ones you were actually excited about wasn’t easy. As I talked abo... |
| 06.08.2013 | Don’t be Furby: What investors look for in hardware startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When I entered the venture capital world five years ago, investing in hardware startups was essentially impossible. Sure, there were a ... |
| 27.07.2013 | Hands-on with the Leap Motion Controller: Cool, but frustrating as hell | reader comments 93 with 76 posters participating, including story author
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| 24.07.2013 | DexType’s Virtual Keyboard Software Lets Leap Motion Owners Type In Mid Air | The motion-sensing Leap Motion Controller, which lets users eschew the traditional keyboard plus mouse combo and interact with their computers via gestures, started shipping to pre-order consumers this week. Apps with Leap Motion support ar... |
| 22.07.2013 | Leap Motion Launches With Limited Appeal, But It Could Be A Ticking Time Bomb Of Innovation | The much-anticipated Leap Motion Controller began shipping to pre-order customers today, as reviews of the input device hit the web. The startup behind the controller has done an impressive job raising interest in the novel gadget, and sold... |
| 22.07.2013 | Leap Motion Launches Hand Gesture Controller | [newsincvid id="24959856"] |
| 18.07.2013 | The New York Times Will Release A Gesture-Controlled News App For Leap Motion | The New York Times says it plans to release a Top News app for Leap Motion, the soon-to-be-released controller that will allow users to interact with their computers through gestures — in fact, it will be the only branded news app for the p... |
| 24.06.2013 | Leap Motion Opens Up Beta Access To Developers In Preparation For Its July 22 Launch | Leap Motion is about a month away from shipping its 3-D gesture controller to consumers, and it wants to make sure that there are plenty of apps for users to play with once it does. With that in mind, the company is opening up access to its... |
| 23.06.2013 | Highland Capital Partners Launches $25M Leap Fund | Global venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners launched a new $25m investment initiative to support companies solving human scale problems.
The Leap Fund™ will make investments in developers and entrepreneurs who use Leap Motion‘s ne... |
| 20.06.2013 | Highland Capital Partners Commits To Invest $25 Million In Leap Motion Developers | It seems like every time we’ve got a new developer platform, there needs to be a fund to invest in and entice developers to create awesome new applications for it. First there was the iFund. Then there was the fbFund. And the Twilio Fund. A... |
| 05.06.2013 | Thalmic Labs nabs $14.5M for wearable device that unleashes your inner Jedi | Thalmic Labs has built technology that gives regular people super powers– or at least makes them feel that way.
The startup has secured $14.5 million of venture capital to accelerate development of MYO– an armband that wirelessly controls y... |
| 05.06.2013 | Thalmic Labs nabs $14.5M for wearable device that unleashes your inner Jedi | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Thalmic Labs has built technology that gives regular people super powers– or at least makes them feel that way.
The startup has secured... |
| 03.06.2013 | 100 AngelList Startups To Watch In 2013: How Many Are New To You? | AngelList. It’s the place for startups to connect with funding and talent. Just this month, the site has helped raise $12 million in venture funding for a wide collection of startups. It may be the one site that best represents all players ... |
| 20.05.2013 | Andy Miller on Apple, Leap Motion as the New Apple, & Sacramento Kings Deal | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I’m on the phone with Andy Miller, and I don’t know where to begin.
Ask him about working with Steve Jobs at Apple? About how Leap Motion may or may not be the next Apple? Or ... |
| 16.05.2013 | Leap Motion Talks New Beta, We Go Hands On With Motion-Controlled Google Earth | Leap Motion was showing off its still unreleased gesture motion controller for computers at Google I/O 2013. The demo unit allowed you to use the controller to navigate Google Earth, and the functionality felt ready for prime time to me, as... |
| 16.05.2013 | Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement changed one man’s life | A Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and a Hollywood actor cross paths at a coffee shop in San Francisco’s Financial District.
You’d never know by appearance alone, but one of these men will sleep on the streets tonight.
Scott Glover and Marc... |
| 25.04.2013 | Leap Motion Controller Ship Date Delayed Until July 22, Due To A Need For A Larger, Longer Beta Test | Leap Motion has just announced that its 3D gesture controller hardware ship date will be delayed, from May 13 for pre-orders and May 19 for general retail availability to July 27. The delay was caused by a need for more testing from the Lea... |
| 16.04.2013 | Leap Motion-HP Deal: Gesture Control Goes Mainstream | Leap Motion, creators of a motion-control device that allows interaction with a computer interface through hand movements, has announced a partnership with Hewlett Packard that will embed gesture control directly within HP hardware and get ... |
| 16.04.2013 | Leap Motion Controller Tech To Be Embedded In, And Bundled With, Future HP Devices | Leap Motion hasn’t even launched its first product yet (the first devices ship May 13), and already the company is on a roll. Now, it’s announcing a collaboration with HP, to bring its brand of 3D motion control to that company’s devices, f... |
| 27.03.2013 | Duo Is A DIY 3D Motion Sensing Controller | The Duo is a 3D motion sensing controller, much like the Leap Motion Controller and the Kinect – but with a DIY twist. Whereas the Leap Motion Controller comes in a small and elegant package, the Duo is meant to be tinkered with.
A $20 cont... |
| 18.03.2013 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from SXSW 2013 (Grumpy Cat, Elon Musk, Shaq, BBQ Pool Parties, Angry Birds & more!) | Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun, singer/songwriter Tori Kelly, IRL Productions’ Emily Gannett and billionaire / Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban at Conduit Corner @ SXSW 2013 (photo by Erica Gannett)
This is a guest post from Gary Sh... |
| 17.03.2013 | Hardware Startups Have A Better Shot At Traction Thanks To Their Wearable Computing Forebears | Editor’s note: Nabeel Hyatt is an entrepreneur and Venture Partner at Spark Capital. He writes about startups, growth, product development, and design on his blog. Follow him on Twitter @nabeel.
It’s no coincidence that the last 12 months h... |
| 13.03.2013 | I survived South by Southwest 2013! (Adventures in Austin, Part 4.9.9) | BY IAN PANCHEVRE
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| 12.03.2013 | Leap Motion’s Michael Buckwald Lays Out His Vision For Gesture-Based Computer Interaction | While I was at South by Southwest Interactive, I had a chance to meet with the Leap Motion team and try out their upcoming gesture-based controller. We’ve been writing about the company for a while now, but this was a chance to see the tech... |
| 27.02.2013 | Leap Motion will be available in May for $79.99 | Controller to ship on May 13, hit Best Buy shelves on May 19
Details about the Leap Motion controller have been slowly coming out over the last few months. First the company partnered with Asus to bring its motion controller to more consume... |
| 27.02.2013 | Leap Motion Controller Ships Pre-Orders May 13, Hits Best Buy Store Shelves May 19 For $79.99 | Leap Motion today announced that its innovative motion controller for PCs will start shipping to pre-order buyers beginning May 13, and will launch in the U.S. at Best Buy locations on May 19. Full retail price for the Leap Motion Controlle... |
