[Philip Lelyveld comment: 15 seconds into this video the developer shows how you could effectively integrate VR into the movie-viewing experience. In the Disney 3D movie G-Force, the animators slowly reduced the height of the letterbox in one scene so that when popcorn flew towards the audience it looked like it flew beyond the boundaries of the frame. At 15-25 seconds into the video, this developer shows how flying through stars (or light rays) could extend out of the image to the world around you as a storytelling device. This plays into the Oculus story a few days ago about creating a movie-theatre viewing VR experience for the rift.]
The project fused Leap Motion skeletal hand tracking with Oculus Rift DK2 positional tracking to produce an impressively intuitive VR interface. Now, a new video of the interface shows impressive progress.
World of Comenius seems to be that rarest of projects, one that takes new technology and harnesses it to break ground in areas that may prove beneficial to society in general. It’s the first project of its kind that has demonstrated to me a killer app for Leap Motion in VR and at the same time shows the possibilities for VR outside of traditional games and media consumption.