Ultraleap unveils Hyperion, its subsequent technology monitoring software program

Could 9, 2024 – Ultraleap, a supplier of prolonged actuality (XR) applied sciences resembling hand monitoring and mid-air haptics, has this week launched Ultraleap Hyperion, the successor to the corporate’s hand-tracking software program, Gemini.

What’s Ultraleap Hyperion?

Hyperion is a versatile platform provides customers better management over their hand monitoring interactions, permitting them to tune totally different parameters and change between fashions to go well with their software. Ultraleap acknowledged that the platform “showcases a step change within the efficiency, energy and adaptability of hand monitoring.” Not like different “one-size suits all” monitoring options in the marketplace, Ultraleap Hyperion provides a mix of monitoring fashions and modes to ship a dependable, versatile resolution that meets distinctive enterprise wants, in keeping with the corporate.

What are the important thing options of Ultraleap Hyperion?

Key Ultraleap Hyperion options embody:

• Microgesture interactions: Hyperion can monitor small finger actions all the way down to the millimeter, enabling delicate gestures that require minimal effort.
• Strong when dealing with objects: Hyperion provides sturdy hand monitoring whereas a person is holding a bodily object or prop of their hand, making it nicely fitted to blended actuality functions.
• Object monitoring: Hyperion permits the corporate’s Leap Movement Controller 2 digicam to trace augmented actuality (AR) markers (often known as fiducial markers), permitting for the monitoring of any object.
• Efficiency switching: Hyperion provides new modes together with a low-power mode that permits hand monitoring to run with diminished energy consumption, and a high-performance mode that delivers correct finger mapping with low latency when laptop processing energy is unrestricted.
• Expanded monitoring capabilities: Hyperion permits direct entry to the Leap Movement Controller 2 stereo IR digicam {hardware}, increasing its use to different laptop imaginative and prescient duties, like depth sensing, 3D scanning, and object monitoring.

Who’s Ultraleap Hyperion for?

Ultraleap famous that Hyperion was designed with headset producers and software builders in thoughts. Its further options may be chosen immediately throughout the platform, with out the necessity for laptop imaginative and prescient specialists or software program engineers.

The corporate added that its Leap Motion Controller 2 now additionally comes bundled with a industrial license to mechanically entry Hyperion’s options and use them to develop, use and promote new functions.

Moreover, Ultraleap acknowledged that with Hyperion it may possibly additional prepare hand monitoring fashions for extra particular use instances and custom-tune fashions inside days somewhat than months, growing pace to marketplace for clients.

What platforms does Ultraleap Hyperion work with?

Lastly the Ultraleap Hyperion platform can be appropriate with a variety of {hardware} options, together with built-in XR headset cameras for SLAM or peripherals (resembling Ultraleap’s Leap Movement Controller 2). Hyperion may also help the necessities of the subsequent technology of augmented and blended actuality gadgets that function considerably smaller kind issue sizes.

Tom Carter, CEO and Co-Founding father of Ultraleap stated: “Our staff at Ultraleap has nicely over a decade of expertise creating progressive market-leading hand monitoring options, and with Hyperion we elevate the bar once more. Because of our machine studying and laptop imaginative and prescient capabilities, Ultraleap Hyperion permits customers to unlock the Leap Movement Controller 2’s broader laptop imaginative and prescient capabilities, enabling various new monitoring potentialities for our companions and clients.”

When and the place is Ultraleap Hyperion obtainable?

Ultraleap Hyperion (v6), which replaces the earlier Gemini (v5) model of the corporate’s software program, is accessible at present from the Ultraleap web site, Amazon and choose distribution companions, bundled with the corporate’s Leap Movement Controller 2 and features a license for industrial use.

For extra data on Ultraleap and its hand-tracking options, please go to the corporate’s website.

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