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I just wrapped up a fun weekend at a Virtual Reality Hackathon here in San Francisco. Located at Galvanize's downtown campus , the event brought together the diehards of virtual reality this Memorial Day weekend. Folks came from all around to work together and create some pretty amazing VR projects.       The winners and categories were: Best Web-based VR Project Winners  1st place: Team VR Party 2nd place: Team Planet Chase Best Mobile-based VR Project Winners 1st place: Team OKVR 2nd place: Team GoPro on Steriods Best Looking VR Scene Winner 1st place: Team Mole Quest  2nd place: Team VRecover Best VR Project of Show Winner 1st place: Team Wilderness Road VR Best X3DOM VR Project Winner 1st place: Team Dog Chase Best Samsung GearVR Project Winner 1st place: Team VR Transit A big thanks to the amazing San Francisco VR community and the sponsors for making this another great hackathon. The next VR Hackat...

So the developer kits for the Leap Motion gesture control device shipped a few months back and now we are starting to see a variety of Leap developer videos make it on the web. AirHarp   Block 54   Leap Motion and Unity3D experiment

So a few days ago I posted the following about an online hands free home configurator developed from a partnership between IDEAbuilder Homes and SpiralConcepts. Here is the original post  and the repost  by sci-fi author Bruce Sterling on the Wired Blog. When out in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley tech scene it is not the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) industry I hear about leading the charge in technical innovation. It is the chatter of the millions given and insane evaluations of those either in the cloud, selling user data, social, gaming, or insert buzz word here. Yet more and more construction companies are incorporating technology to improve various areas of the building process. I observe all around SOMA how construction companies like Swinerton  and  Webcor  are using data from the BIM (Building Information Modeling) process to build better. I applaud Skanska 's  use of tablets  and  experiments with augmen...

So earlier this week San Francisco based Leap Motion , formally Ocuspec, released their Leap hands free controller. I got a personal demo of the device last week at their office in SOMA district and "Wow"! Developed over the past 4 years, Leap Motion moves far beyond the current technologies designed for hands free control. Leap is an entirely new way to interact with computers that lets you control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements. It's more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard, and more sensitive than a touchscreen. The Leap is a small iPod sized USB peripheral that creates a 3D interaction space of 8 cubic feet to precisely interact with and control software on your laptop or desktop computer. It senses your individual hand and finger movements independently, as well as items like a pen. The Leap can distinguish your individual fingers and track your movements down to a 1/100th of a millimeter. The compan...