Leap-Motion

Technology and Gaming
#1

So, I just pre-ordered one of these babies:
https://live.leapmotion.com/about/

"Say goodbye to your mouse and keyboard.

Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements.

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.

This is like day one of the mouse. Except, no one needs an instruction manual for their hands."

What do you guys think? Legit? Revolutionary? Gimmick?

Discuss.

#2

Will have it’s uses. Experimentation is required to see what they are.

#3

Looks like it would make for a shitty keyboard. I wouldn’t want to waste any of my monitor displaying what characters I’m trying to hit just so I could type, or memorize any strange hand gestures. I think I’ll just stick with my keyboard & mouse, which also lets me rest my arms lazily on the desk.

#4

i hope it can be hacked to track head movement for some 3D action in games

#5

I think it’ll be handy for 3D modelling and stuff like that. Obviously will be keeping the keyboard and mouse, but there’s something about spinning an object on solid works and tugging on vertices here and there with your hands that screams FUTURE

#6

Yeah, It seems like it’s greatest Potential would be in Engineering of sorts, Blueprints, Models, Structures, Science Stuff.

#7

Minor engineering, Major gaming, meh art. It would be interesting to see how it functions with Zbrush type apps.

#8

If it turns out to work as intended I’ll get one despite the fact I’ll only use it for some futuristic page navigation and other assorted things.

#9

This will be useful in my replication of Tony Stark’s workstation.

#10

^ Yes.

#11

Incompatible with Parkinson disease.

#12

I can’t wait until EEG-based peripherals start being good. I’m tired of all these damn motion controls & touch screens.

Good luck finding games that would support this thing.

#13

Pretty much the first thought I had when I started reading that link was of Tony Stark’s computer. Now all we need is 3D hologram keyboards

#14

Isn’t it ironic that Michael J. Fox, the man who played Marty McFly, can’t use something so futuristic?

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