Technology post 3/27

Leap Motion and Razer's OSVR took the latest step in that virtual reality game today. Leap announced today that the OSVR Hacker Dev Kit will soon include a faceplate with the Leap Motion controller attached. Having a hands-free motion control sensor on the front of your VR headset allows you to use your hands as controllers. The OSVR/Leap partnership won't do anything for walking, but it does at least let you use your hands. The big limitation was that you couldn't move your hands outside of a certain range. We tried a rigged-up version of this during our OSVR hands-on at CES, as Razer had strapped Leap Motion to the front of its demo units. The companies say that the OSVR beta kit will support multiple forms of motion control, so we could have a situation where Leap Motion tracks hand gestures, a TV-mounted sensor tracks body movement, while something like the Virtuix VR treadmill sensing walking and running.