Oculus Users Can Toggle Between VR And The Real World With A Single Gesture

Leap Motion's controller provides an intuitive new function.

Leap Motion's tiny, sleek sensor lets you use hand motions to control all types of devices and situations. One of these is virtual reality: the company designed a mount which lets the motion tracker attach easily to the front of an Oculus Rift headset, allowing for intuitive control of VR apps via gestures. Now, Leap Motion has released a demo for a new gesture called Quick Switch that will let users toggle between a VR space and a video feed of the real world—what you'd be looking at if you weren't wearing a headset—with a simple gesture. Waving a hand close to the controller, which is attached to the front of the headset, will trigger this toggle.

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