Leap has announced that the devices will be available to the public on May 13.
I've been hacking around using JRuby and JavaScript. It's quite nice to work with, and so far my biggest issues are thinking through just how to handle user movement (i.e. what hand/finger combinations and movement should equate to what action).
It's a nice compliment to the XBox Kinect, too.
Gesture recognition has been added so I need to spend a bit of time with that today.
I was lucky enough to give a presentation at an Intel "Perceptual Computing" meetup (their version of the LeapMotion), and I met a dev advocate from LeapMotion.
I think it's very interesting; the API is solid, and it's really easy to use with Javascript because you can interface with it directly through a Websocket server. That, plus three.js, means you can do some interesting things with examining 3D models. It isn't a far stretch to see medical and industrial applications, as well as interesting games (Infinity Blade, laptop edition?)
There are a few companies working on this at once[1]; I think it's definitely something to keep an eye on. It seems like a natural evolution of webcams.
I've been writing about it at http://leaphacking.com
Leap has announced that the devices will be available to the public on May 13.
I've been hacking around using JRuby and JavaScript. It's quite nice to work with, and so far my biggest issues are thinking through just how to handle user movement (i.e. what hand/finger combinations and movement should equate to what action).
It's a nice compliment to the XBox Kinect, too.
Gesture recognition has been added so I need to spend a bit of time with that today.