A few early issues

[Slayemin]

First, let me say this update is a significant improvement! It fixed a lot of issues with tracking reliability and performance, but there are a few small new issues. I'm using Unreal Engine 4 with the community plugin.

1. The sensor FOV has increased such that it picks up my hands in game even when they're on the keyboard and mouse. A gamepad is looking to be a work around. At the moment, if you're using VR you have to keep your head up. I'm not sure how you'd design around this yet.

2. On several occasions, the leap motion picks up my keyboard and thinks it is my right arm, and then my characters arm goes over my face. The temporary solution is to hide my keyboard or put it off to the side.

3. The right arm now gets stuck and goes across my face, even if its not being tracked. It's not too hard to reproduce, though it takes a bit of trying. It happens enough in-game that its a problem. The in-game workaround is to quickly turn your head away or up to reset the arm.
   

   

4. The LM sensor now has to be oriented so that the USB port faces left. If you do it from the right, the device is upside down and it really messes up your hand tracking. I think earlier it was able to detect its orientation?

I'll send you guys a build of the binary after the weekend and you can try this out on other hardware platforms.

[AlexColgan]

Hey Slayemin, appreciate the feedback.

1. I'm not sure what you mean. Are you experiencing problems in gameplay development because the hands are still visible even while tactile interfaces are being used?

2. Can you send us a picture of your keyboard using the VR Visualizer (accessible from the taskbar icon)?

3 + 4. Thank you, I will pass that directly to our engineering team.

Looking forward to seeing the binary!

EDIT: Video in the VR Visualizer would also be super helpful

[Joe_Ward]

For #4, the Leap software should still automatically detect the proper orientation, though we made it a bit more conservative to prevent erroneous flipping. You can always manually set the correct orientation in the control panel to avoid the problem altogether.

[Slayemin]

1. When I'm playing the game, I often use the WASD keys and the mouse to move my character around the game world. When I place my hands on the keyboard and look straight forward with VR, it now picks up my hand on the keyboard. It's not really an error, but it is a bit of an annoyance because that's not player intent and when you realize what's happening, it breaks VR immersion a bit.

Today I'm having trouble reproducing #3. I'm wondering if the environment caused a change in the reproducability. It is a dark and rainy day outside, and yesterday was partly cloudy with some sunshine coming in through the window. I'll keep working at it from my end in the coming week and send screen and pass-through device captures.

4) Okay, I'm wondering if we should try to detect this scenario and tell the player about it. It confused me for a good two minutes, so it'll happen to at least one other person.

[Slayemin]

Something I learned today: The Leap Motion sensor has much better tracking and reliability when you are not wearing clothing which has black sleeves. Haven't tried other colors yet. Rolling up sleeves helps a lot.