Leap sent this engineer a dev unit. So we all got to play with it, to see what we thought of it and see if we had any touchless UI app ideas that could be made. This unit was pre production. It had no case/ housing for the electronics. It clearly was an early prototype. Neverthless, it was exciting.
Similarly to a 3D printer your first encounter experience with this new type of technology, touch less gesture control UI, is memorable .
The software screenshots give you a sense for how well the tracking works.
The amazing part: The tracking resolution on a Leap Motion is pretty amazing. Unlike a Microsoft Kinect (one of the only other Touchless Gesture based UIs ive used) which is great at a room size scale, the Leap Motion controller is great at tracking miniscule points and movements such as a pencil tip, or the tips of your fingers.
Room for improvement : Figuring out how to track gestures that are in a single plane. For example tracking a thumbs up or a thumbs down gesture is hard to pull off with the leap.
One last thought: check out the Leap Motion intro video below to see what all the hype is about. You can find it on their site here: https://www.leapmotion.com/
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