Leap - Hand Motion controller on PC

[pheonixsingh]

This new unit looks amazing, it will only cost $80 too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6Ku...layer_embedded



Website: https://www.leapmotion.com

Gestures based actions are becoming increasingly commonplace in the Digital Age in which we live, and although a trackpad here, or a touchscreen there tends to help the job move along seamlessly, hardware manufacturers are constantly looking at ways to test the boundaries. In light of the success of 3D gestures in products such as Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect peripheral, a string of start-ups and established companies have looked to apply that same motif to computers, and Leap Motion’s soon-to-be-released offering not only looks amazing, but at $80, is certainly priced at the kind of bracket most can agree with.

Leap Motion’s minimalistic gesture control, which the company claims is 200 times more accurate than any similar product on the market, first made an appearance last May, and since then, developers have naturally been keen to get up close and personal with it. Since then, Leap has been working on ironing out the bugs and sorting the manufacturing process, and finally, it appears to be almost ready to hit the consumer market. The only thing better than its compact design and proclaimed pinpoint accuracy (to a hundredth of a millimeter, no less), is the price tag. At just $80, it is likely sell out very quickly when it finally does make it to market, with the company forecasting sales beginning in May.

The claim of being 200 times more accurate than anything else currently retailing is a bold statement, and while the proof of the pudding will of course be in testing it out for ourselves, the demonstration video below certainly appears to affirm to the boastful stat. It is said to be able to image all ten of your fingers, offers a 150-degree field of view, and at 290 fps. It can monitor a space of up to 4ft³ in size with devastating accuracy

Support will be offered to Windows Vista, 7 or 8, as well as OS X 10.7 (Lion) or 10.8 (Mountain Lion) from the get-go, and with some 12,000 devs having worked on this project in the last twelve months, it will be exciting to see what they’ve come up with. Confirmed offerings range from Cut The Rope (but, of course), to Autodesk and Corel, and Leap Motion will have its own Airspace App Store to facilitate these titles.

[tawny]

I've had one pre-ordered since last November, cant wait til it ships!

[WRATH OF BOD]

i pre ordered too..

[blaggard]

Yep, old news, also pre-ordered but I thought it was before that. .

[Ginnerfreak]

They chose the guy with the worlds longest fingers for the advert!

[tawny]

Pre-Orders shipping the 13th May! Finally I can start looking forward to delivery of it!

[Rick Sanchez]

Is this just for Mac or?

[pheonixsingh]

Is this just for Mac or?

PC as well.

[wakadoo]

[WRATH OF BOD]

it would be great if it was pre built into keyboards & laptops, that may be the way they go.

[B.I.G.]

These are shipping on the 22nd of this month...Has everyone who pre-ordered had their email to update their payment and shipping details?

Mine never came through to the livemail I have setup on my pc but it was on virgin webmail...good job I checked as it's been over a year and the card I registered had expired.

it would be great if it was pre built into keyboards & laptops, that may be the way they go.

Good call

http://allthingsd.com/20130416/leap-...ntrols-to-pcs/

[blaggard]

I ended up cancelling mine after the last email, I sit bang in front of my iMac, i thought I might use it on my Revo but in the end decided it was a gadget too far.. . . .

[B.I.G.]

I can see where you're coming from and I agree but fuck it I can add it to my pile of never used after the first week pile of gadgetry.

[Zippeyrude]

i get the gadget, but why would you want to move your arms, hands and fingers when a simple mouse click will do? not as sexy bit a lot less effort...

[cyprus]

Completely pointless. (Get it?)

You can't play games with it. You can't write an email with it. You can't use Photoshop with it in any meaningful way. You can't write a post on DF. But hey, you can wiggle your fingers around like a cunt and take a screenshot!

[grrrd]

Well mine turned up this morning. Build quality of it is great, accuracy is great... its like learning how to use the mouse again - really strange experience. The way to look at it is that they have developed the 3D Touch screen with it.

I have played with the free apps, enabled the touch screen in windows 7 but now a bit bored with it. There isn't anything that will change the way i interact with my computer... the only thing i like the look of cost $4.99 for the app - its a biometric unlock of a computer using the size and shape of your hand - to tight to try it