Leap Motion Releases VR Plugin for Unreal Engine 4

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Plugin allows developers to add virtual hands to games

Epic and Leap Motion have teamed up to create and launch an official Windows plugin for Unreal Engine 4 that's supposed to make it easy for developers to integrate virtual hands into their games. The plugin is available in the Unreal Engine 4.7 source code, which they can download from Unreal's GitHub repository to immediately start building and creating a custom VR experience.
The plugin will, which will also be bundled with future Unreal binary tool releases, works by mapping Leap Motion input to virtual hand meshes. These can then collide and interact with other objects that appear in the game. You can already view it in action, as Cherry Pie Games was the first to use the plugin in its Hollow game.
Check it out:

Leap Motion is billing the plugin as an "introductory release" that will evolve over the coming weeks and months. In the meantime, developers who are interested and planning to attend the 2015 Game Developers Conference (GDC) next will have access to a discout code available at the Unreal Engine booth.
As for Unreal's GitHub respository, you can find that here.
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