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Ultraleap Launches its Fifth-Generation Hand Tracking Platform – Gemini

Ultraleap’s fifth-generation hand tracking platform, known as Gemini, is fully available on Windows. The most robust, flexible hand tracking ever, it’s already bringing touchless technology to self-service solutions around the world.

The Gemini Windows release is the first step in making the world’s best hand tracking easier to access and more flexible for multiple platforms, camera systems and third-party hardware.

Ultraleap launches Gemini to help fuel the adoption of touchless technology proc

Ultraleap have rebuilt their tracking engine from the ground up to be able to improve hand tracking across various aspects including:

  1. Improved two-handed interaction
  2. Faster initialization and hand detection
  3. Improved robustness to challenging environmental conditions
  4. Better adaptation to hand anatomy

Ultraleap have also made significant changes to the tracking platform to be able to extend hand-tracking to different platforms and hardware.

Saurabh Gupta, Product Director, OOH, at Ultraleap, said: “With ten years of ongoing developer support, experimentation, and feedback, we’ve refined our hand tracking to deliver the best and most flexible hand tracking available. For OOH, Gemini enables easy integration of gesture control into existing and new kiosk solutions, delivering seamless, engaging, and safe digital interaction. We are working on leveraging the flexibility of our Gemini platform and enable our hand tracking to work on additional platforms in OOH.”

Accurate and robust hand tracking for touchless kiosk and OOH use cases

In Out of Home (OOH), Ultraleap’s hand tracking alongside the TouchFree application is fuelling the adoption of touchless technology.

Fast initialization, robustness and accuracy are all elements needed in hand tracking to make the touchless kiosk experience seamless for the user. Ultraleap’s solutions are already being used in the market with the likes of PepsiCo, LEGO and Image Holders.

With this latest hand tracking update, Ultraleap’s recommended camera position is enabled – Above Facing User. This camera position will support more aesthetically pleasing set ups, easier integration and a longer life of the installation.

To download Gemini, please visit: https://developer.leapmotion.com/tracking-software-download

To download TouchFree, please visit: https://developer.leapmotion.com/touchfree Note that Gemini is not compatible with previous versions of TouchFree. If you want to take advantage of Gemini hand tracking in touchless kiosks, you will need to upgrade to TouchFree 2.1.

About Ultraleap

Ultraleap’s world-leading hand tracking and unrivalled mid-air haptic technologies allow you to engage with the digital world naturally – without touching surfaces. No touchscreens. No controllers. No keypads. From enhancing 2D screens to developing fully immersive 3D experiences, Ultraleap powers natural, safe and effortless digital interaction in the increasingly connected world.

Ultraleap employs more than 150 people across Europe, North America and Asia. It has become the first to offer the full vertical stack of software and hardware to enable spatial computing for the automotive, out of home, industrial, XR, entertainment and medical sectors.