Ultraleap, the company behind the Leap Motion hand-tracking controller, has released a Developer Preview of its hand-tracking engine Gemini. By many accounts, Ultraleap’s latest software overhaul dramatically increases the ability of the company’s camera modules to do more precise and stable two-handed interactions. Gemini is now available in Developer Preview for Windows 10 and is designed to work with all existent Leap Motion controllers as well as Ultraleap’s more recent Stereo IR 170 camera module.
In comparison to Orion (V4), its Gemini (V5) engine is said to offer better smoothness, pose fidelity, and robustness. It also improves hand initialization and brings significantly better performance with two-hand interactions. Not only are both hands more accurately tracked, but occlusion appears to be much less of an issue too, as fingers interlock and move in front of each other with comparative ease. Ultraleap is set to integrate Gemini into a number of XR headsets, including Varjo VR-3 and XR-3 headsets, and the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 5G reference design, which makes use of Ultraleap hardware.
More information:
https://www.roadtovr.com/ultraleap-v5-gemini-developer-preview/