We'll look into it, we're aiming to add a hold last position (with a timer) and also tweak the return movement, based on your and others feedback we've received in the last couple of weeks. Of course, these options would be configurable.

No ETA for this, we're trying add it to our schedule as soon as possible.

I have high hopes for all of you. =)

What is the current status regarding this issue?
I use Leapmotion to move my hands, but when my hands go out of range of the sensor, my arm moves forward and then lowers, which is an unnatural behavior that I'm having a lot of trouble with.
I think the problem will be solved if I can get rid of just this "hand moving forward" behavior and make it a hand lowering motion.

Originally posted by Jean Roxas:

What is the current status regarding this issue?
I use Leapmotion to move my hands, but when my hands go out of range of the sensor, my arm moves forward and then lowers, which is an unnatural behavior that I'm having a lot of trouble with.
I think the problem will be solved if I can get rid of just this "hand moving forward" behavior and make it a hand-lowering motion.

Hello!

Happy to assist.
Unfortunately, Sazzaj is no longer with the Animaze team, so this issue might have fallen through the cracks. I cannot give you quick specific details. Will discuss this with the coder on our current three-person team on Monday to see if there is progress on this.
Agreed that it does not look perfectly smooth, and does not seem 100% necessary.

Until then the best way to mitigate this is to tune your motion capture sensor setup so that tracking lost hand events ideally occur far less frequently.

The issue is probably that when the hand tracking is lost, the arms interpolate to a certain technical default pose first, and that technical default pose had the arms bent 90 degrees at the elbow; only after they go to the arms stretched down along the body pose.


Ways to have the hand tracking be lost less often:
- Use monitor-mounted or chest-mounted Ultraleap position (instead of desk positioned)
- If you use webcam-based hand-tracking ( via a VMC sender), and you set up your body-focused webcam with a larger FOV it will be much harder to get your hands to exit that. The external VMC sender might have their own failsafe on what they send out to the arms when tracking is lost.
- Test if newer ultra leap sensors have wider angles /larger capture spaces (Animaze supports the new Hyperion drivers that support the next-gen Leap sensors too).


In the past to use webcam-based hand tracking you had to use VMC and a VMC sender app. That is about to change.
The internal Animaze version for webcam-based hand tracking that uses Google Media Pipe (that does not require an additional VMC sender app) will be launched probably next week, and you can test that too, and see if you prefer it to Ultraleap tracking.

Understood.
Thanks to you, I now have a better understanding of the situation.
I'll continue to try to find my own solution.
I'll continue to support the development team.
Thank you.