Gadgetory

we rolled out in 12 new countries which means there are about 2,500 stores sawing the device the number of developers in the program has grown to 85,000 and those developers are in 110 countries and the number of apps and airspace which is our App Store have doubled from 75 at launch to close to 150 today one of the things we want to talk to you about is an app that we are building ourselves called free form and it is intended to bring my co-founder David Holtz's original vision for the company which was maybe I can use my hands to create and sculpt clay on a computer in the same way that a five-year-old can create something out of clay in minutes with with real clay in real life maybe we can we can we can create an experience like that things like like the graphical user interface you know which is like Windows today they tend to come with some sort of creation tool so like there was like Microsoft Paint that a lot of you know maybe people don't think is the best painting program ever now but for its time it was like that first thing that people used you know and that was a really good experience and it was sort of an important part in sort of the history and so we're sort of making something like that and that sort of one of these first steps to sort of letting people create with this platform that's what I think they're really excited about is that it's a you know people take knowledge getting more more powerful but it's not it's not getting easier to make things with it so now I'm sorry just cutting into it and I'm cutting into it in this sort of direction of my finger so you can see it's sort of sculpting in the wind the way that I'm drawing and and this is really interesting because this is not something that I have to really learn how to do this is something I can just do and then I can go ahead and I can kind of move up here maybe I'm going to maybe I want to paint so I'll go ahead and I'll pick a red color I'll go ahead and I'll just start adding some paint maybe I want to paint up here at the same time I'll go ahead and I'll paint up here at the same time you know up here here's what sort of a more complicated thing that a lot of modelers do they'll sort of paint two places at the same time that the other thing that we're announcing is a preview of the next-gen version of our tracking so when we launched the leap motion three months ago it launched with the world's most accurate finger tracking and and it is still today the only technology in the world that can track ten fingers and it has it's incredibly responsive and you're able to build amazing applications like 150 apps that are in airspace today but there is a next-gen version of the tracking that builds upon this that we've been working on internally for about a year and it really takes things to the next level the new tracking it takes it sort of no longer they no longer track sort of fingers as sort of independent entities its attracts this finger is actually this finger and this hand is actually this hand and so it lets you do much more nuanced things that maybe involve multiple hands multiple fingers or just in things and positions where really you know the device might actually be able to see it very well but that becomes less of a constraint now when you understand the objects as a whole well one thing that we really want to do is to save us everywhere that there's a computer so we've announced partnerships with companies like HP H embed the technology and in laptops and computers today but in the future we want to leave to be and things like tablets and phones and even form factors that might not exist today like head mounted displays or 3d holographic screens or or whatever the future holds so that there are a lot of exciting things and hopefully we can be a part of them