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Must-See Video: Gesture Control Accuracy Takes a Huge "Leap" Forward

By Rain Noe - May 21, 2012

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This morning, a San-Francisco-based company called Leap Motion released the demo video for their eponymous gesture control interface, which appears to be shockingly accurate:

It's more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen.... This isn't a game system that roughly maps your hand movements. The Leap technology is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market -- at any price point. Just about the size of a flash drive, the Leap can distinguish your individual fingers and track your movements down to a 1/100th of a millimeter.

The system can distinguish thumbs from figures and tell when you're holding a pencil in your hand. Check it out:

The drawing app looks freaking awesome, and imagine being able to do CAD with your bare hands. That would take some clever tool/interface design on the part of the software developers, but if the Leap is really as easy to use as the manufacturers claim—"Plug the LEAP into a USB port. Load the Leap Motion software. Do a quick wave to calibrate. That's it"—you can be assured said developers will get on it.

Outside of personal computing, I'd love to see the Leap applied to ATMs, so I never had to touch those filthy, smudged and sneezed-upon screens again.

The Leap is currently available for pre-order at $69.99 a pop.

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mappsolutely

13 years ago

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This is the future. There wont be any mouse or even touch pad all you would have to do is just move your fingers like Harry potter and see the things done on your pc.
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Mitch Bailey

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I see ergo issues, holding your arms in air for hours while working at the computer doesn't sound real comfortable. Could make for an interesting 3D mouse when modelling though.
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Leonardo

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Open your mind.

This device promises not only to change how we interact with computers, but pretty much anything that involves the use of manual controls, like cars, planes, construction equipment, machinery, refrigerators, microwave ovens, cameras, etc.

The applications are boundless
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Nic Bow

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wonder if this would work for all games.. because there are a lot of controllers that are not compatible with certain games. I HATE USING A MOUSE FOR SHOOTER GAMES!!! lol
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John Andrews

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I'd love to see what mobile application development could do with this. Touchscreens on phones are great and all, but smudging is a factor there too. It would make text entry a lot easier too.
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Yuri

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Looks great...
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