Aversion To Touchscreen Germs Is Here To Stay

Thursday, August 4th, 2022

Tristan Cotterill

New research has found that consumers across the world are still concerned about using public touchscreens due to fears of germ transmission. Some are even changing their behaviour to avoid using them altogether in public venues. This week Ultraleap, the natural user interface company, released the results of a global consumer survey that was conducted […]

Ultraleap Approved Partner Status w/ @BrightSign

Monday, June 13th, 2022

Andrew Neale

Ultraleap last week announced their approved partner status with BrightSign, meaning that BrightSign customers can now leverage Ultraleap’s world class touchless technologies for their immersive experiences using BrightSign’s XT1144 media player. Saurabh Gupta, VP of Out-of-Home and Retail at Ultraleap,told us “BrightSign’s market leadership and strong customer relationships, combined with our innovative interface technology create […]

UST Integrates @Ultraleap Tech

Thursday, March 24th, 2022

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company specialising in retail, has integrated Ultraleap hand tracking to provide touchless interaction for their end-to-end retail solution – UST Vision Checkout. UST’s frictionless solution is a self-checkout POS that uses computer vision to identify SKUs. UST has integrated Ultraleap’s hand tracking hardware and award-winning TouchFree application into this […]

Ultraleap Launches Next-Gen Camera

Sunday, January 16th, 2022

Andrew Neale

Ultraleap, the world leader in hand tracking and mid-air haptics technologies, today launches their 3Di camera ahead of NRF Retail’s Big Show in New York. Designed specifically for Out-of-Home (OOH) and retail use cases, this camera complements Ultraleap’s TouchFree solution and enables easy integration for both retrofits and new kiosk designs. Ultraleap’s TouchFree solution now […]

GBP 60 Million @Ultraleap Series D Fundraise

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

Andrew Neale

Ultraleap, the world leader in interface technologies – hand tracking and mid-air haptics – today announced it has completed a GBP 60 million (USD 82 million) Series D round of investment. The raise will enable Ultraleap to further develop and commercialise its revolutionary technologies for existing and next generation computing platforms. Significant new investors including […]

Gemini Launched By @Ultraleap

Thursday, October 28th, 2021

Andrew Neale

From today, Ultraleap’s fifth-generation hand tracking platform, known as Gemini, is fully available on Windows. Described as the most robust, flexible hand tracking ever, we are told that it is 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 […]

Next-Gen Kiosks Get @Ultraleap TouchFree Tooling

Monday, September 27th, 2021

Andrew Neale

Ultraleap has launched TouchFree Tooling, allowing designers and developers to move beyond touchless retrofits, and design brand new, innovative interfaces with a gesture-first approach. This development follows the success of Ultraleap’s award winning TouchFree application which was launched in October 2020. The application provided a way to quickly retrofit existing kiosks and touchscreens in response […]

Tom Carter New @Ultraleap CEO

Friday, August 27th, 2021

Andrew Neale

Ultraleap announced this week that Steve Cliffe, CEO, has decided to step down and will be succeeded on Wednesday September 1, 2021 by Tom Carter, who founded the company back in 2013 and has since been the company’s CTO. Steve Cliffe has led Ultraleap as CEO since the founding. During his tenure, he grew the […]

Touch Free Exhibits at The Aquarium of the Pacific

Thursday, July 29th, 2021

Andrew Neale

Cortina Productions, powered by Ultraleap technology, has turned the Aquarium of the Pacific’s Whales: Voices in the Sea exhibit touchless, allowing visitors to control the interactive content without touching surfaces or buttons. Using Ultraleap’s camera module and their TouchFree application, Cortina Productions has been able to retrofit a popular, 10-year-old exhibit and update it for […]

imageHOLDERS Launch Touchless @Ultraleap Kiosk

Thursday, July 15th, 2021

Andrew Neale

imageHOLDERS have launched their first touchless kiosk, powered by Ultraleap hand tracking technology, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. imageHOLDERS CEO Adrian Thompson told us “Our mission for this touchless kiosk was to instil confidence in the general population and in turn galvanise multiple industries to be able to get back to full strength in […]