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Leap Motion’s amazing-looking gesture control debuted last May, and it’s had developers crawling all over it ever since. Now, the company is finally getting ready to sell it to you—and it’ll only cost about £75 all-in.
According to Leap Motion, the new technology is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market, capable of imaging all ten of your fingers, over a 150-degree field of view, at 290 frames per second. Supposedly accurate to around a hundredth of a millimetre, the device monitors a space four cubic feet in size, and can deftly track individual finger tips, the whole hand, or inanimate objects. The video above shows how impressive it’s set to be.
Initially the device will be supported in Windows Vista, 7 or 8, and Mac OS 10.7 or 10.8. Having had over 12,000 developers working with it over the last year, at launch there will be compatible software available through the company’s own Airspace app store. It’ll feature programs from the likes of Autodesk and Corel, as well as a bunch of games including Sugar Rush and Cut the Rope. No doubt that list will grow swiftly.
Pre-orders of the device will ship from May 13th, and it will then go on sale in stores in the US from May 19th, hopefully the UK soon after. At that price, this thing looks set to fly off the shelves.
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Looks great, exciting technologies like this are popping up everywhere!
http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
Thanks very much, but for anything more than brief use, i’ll stick to a keyboard and mouse, where my arms are comfortably supported.
Why can’t companies, just for once, hit their release window. All they would have to say is ‘Coming in January next year (+ 6 months)’.
Fucking yes! I’m getting that!
Here’s a little experiment for you. Hold your arms out in front of you. Now keep them there. Discuss.
Your arms have things called elbows. You can lean on them.
Tell that to an artist
You’re right, I do digital art as well as traditional and this would definitely help.
Hey man, I work out.
Is your right hand heavier than the other?
There is this thing called exercise, it makes you healthier and stronger. There are lots of people that work in that position, back when I was learning to draw without the use of CAD I would often work for hours in that position.
I don’t think anybody plans to type on one of these although I don’t see why it couldn’t track your fingers on a desk not just in the air. But there are plenty of applications where having the ability to create input in 3D space not just a 2D screen would be beneficial.
I Camberley well discuss it with you with my handset I have to rely on voice recognition
Bro, do you even lift?
come at me bro!
‘Sick 3d gesture’? Are we all now 15 year old chavs?
You might as well of said ‘Dis free’d moveting is piff bled’
Can you use “other” parts of your body to point?
I’m going to damn well try!
This would require more stamina than I have, I suspect.
Ordered my Leap last year and I’ve been waiting patiently (mostly) ever since.
I managed to get one as part of their developer outreach type scheme. The device is pretty damn nice, and the sample apps works as shown in the video. Unfortunately there’s not too many people sharing their examples with each other yet, and I haven’t had the time to look at it properly, meaning it is yet another amazing gadget sitting in my desk drawer looking for a purpose.
When it is properly released though, and the apps are there to support it, I think this will be awesome.
Hopefully the marketplace; ‘Airspace’ will fill up pretty quickly. Have you developed anything for it yet? I’m also interested to see how customizable gestures are going to be. That’s an area that could really speed up my workflow.
I haven’t had the time to look at it for more than about 2 hours when it first arrived. Got the SDK downloaded, fired up Eclipse and managed to log some data about what hands it had detected, how many fingers it detected etc…
That, and playing with the sample apps for a bit, has been the extent of my development activities.
So many toys and not enough time to play with them…!
Yeh I ordered mine roughly a year ago. I’m a little annoyed to be honest. They could have told us much earlier it was going to be delayed.
Also considering how early I preordered it and now apparently I am getting it just 1 week before it is in stores which, if you include shipping time, it means we’re not receiving early at all. It’s a bit of a joke really.
I dunno, I think pre-ordering is just a way of making sure you get it at launch. Whether it’s in stores at the same time makes no difference to me as long as I get it when it’s launched. Once you have it all set up and you’re having fun with it that week won’t matter at all. I would like an email from them to confirm some sort of delivery date though!
I know where you’re coming from though and this zen attitude stems from being let down by pre orders on numerous occasions by so many companies.
Just to let you know that I received my email today from them confirming the 13th May release date.
Same here. Let’s hope it’s worth the wait eh
This is duplicate post. You posted details of this ages ago and I’ve had one on pre-order ever since
New news please