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Added by Gauss on 22.05.2012 |
Future mouse replacement?
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Leap Motion has revealed a sub-millimeter 3D hands-free motion control. Makes Kinect to look complete obsolete.
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A San Francisco startup called Leap Motion has unveiled its Leap 3D motion control system, which allows users to control what's on their computers with hundredth of a millimeter accuracy and introducing touch-free gestures like pinch-to-zoom.
It's about the size of a pack of gum, and once connected to your computer via USB, it creates a four-cubic-foot virtual workspace. Within that area, it tracks all ten of your fingers simultaneously to within 1/100 of a millimeter -- that level of accuracy allows for rudimentary gestures like pinch-to-zoom and more complex actions like manipulating 3D-rendered objects. Naturally, the company isn't telling much about the black magic making it happen, but Leap Motion claims that its software can be embedded in almost anything with an onboard computer, from phones to refrigerators. Users can customize it to suit their needs with custom gestures and sensitivity settings, in addition to chaining multiple Leap devices together to create a larger workspace. Plus, Leap Motion has created an SDK for devs to create Leap-compatible applications and an app discovery platform to distribute them to others. That means the Leap can work in a variety of use cases, from simply navigating your desktop to gaming and computer-aided design. The best part? Leap brings you this next-gen UX for a mere $69.99, and a select few can pre-order them now, with the full roll-out coming this winter.
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The company says is 200 times more sensitive than anything else on the market. And these are some of the functions this thing can do: - Navigating an operating system or browsing Web pages with the flick of a finger
- Finger-pinching to zoom in on maps
- Letting engineers interact with a 3D model of clay
- Precision drawing in either two- or three-dimensions
- Manipulating complex 3D data visualizations
- Playing games, including those that require very "fast-twitch" control
- Signing digital documents by writing in air
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Sounds cool right? Well, also watch the video below to see how it looks!
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EnGadget
Leap Motion 3D motion and gesture control
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CNET
Leap Motion 3D hands-free motion control unbound
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