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so of course everything's in 3d so any things are a lot more interesting different actions like you know zoom in zoom out rotate left for rotate right tilt up till town can all really just be one action this is David holes one of the co-creators of the leap a small rectangular device with the humble goal of revolutionising how we interact with our computers my face during David's demo says it all it is mind-blowing you look like a wizard you actually look a lot like a wizard by of course and we still like to do simple things as well so in this case we're sort of doing a normal touch normal touch application and our software is not actually communicating to this program directly what it's doing is this time the computer ok we have a touch screen and here I'm actually touching the screen right now I'm touching it there or there so we can get really nice backwards compatibility with you know things like Windows 8 and all that new sort of tablet stuff come into the computer so that's kind of fun that's very clever the leap became a geek sensation when it's teaser demo on YouTube showcased everything the gadget could do the leap device will initially support Windows and Mac and then Linux soon after the company plans to ship in February 2013 for seventy dollars now that may sound like a lot but it's less than some precision gaming mice can cost this device is part of a revolution in the idea of input if the mouse changed everything you can assume that the next user interface is really all about the user like Google's Project Glass which would let you wear a device and share moments as you're living them and then there's Microsoft's Kinect the motion technology that arguably started the body control Trent previous connect recently got expanded voice controls for gameplay and menu selection so with you know connect people have gotten used to the idea of using your whole body or big arm gestures are you talking about a much more precise interaction absolutely so we think that if this is going to be a genuinely better way for people to interact with computers then they have to be very precise subtle nuanced movements interactions and that way you have all that power and this feeling of connected which we want to achieve but you don't get tired so far the biggest question about the leap is what's the tech inside I was determined to find out so I know you guys have been famously cagey about the technology but I wouldn't I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't grab you by the shoulders and ask you what now well at the end of the day it's based on a fundamentally new approach to motion sensing it's never been used before in academia or commercially totally what's in there though odd it's it's Michael please are you talking right now it's a very technical problems obviously but it tell me how a lot of technical know-how like I said it's a fundamentally new approach that's never been used before okay so maybe like lidar though that one people will find out soon enough I'm sure that as soon as we as soon as start shipping these in February people will be ripping those boxes opens not not light are not structured light really nothing nothing that most people are guessing I only have one question what in there well some magical dust it really is fundamentally new and it's really exciting to us because we're at essentially the very first stage of what's going to be decades of innovation and improvement on the snow bridge there's there's there's plenty of room to grow and the leaf is only going to get better over time maybe I'm like rotating wall booth even though the guts are still a mystery the company says the leap is for everyone they're working with third-party developers for all kinds of uses twenty-six thousand or more developers have applied to create content for the light expect an app store that could let specialized users like engineers use the leap to build 3d models of cars or scientists who might want to visualize complex protein structures and of course the app store will include important apps for you and night you can I mean the possibilities to man that's which I'm sure you know if I have this and a simple piece of software in a 3d printer like I own the world yeah go ahead mostly out of the air 3d print it bring it up behind you and you got it boom I don't lose it bloom your wizard yeah you can will things into reality