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CNET News - What can you do with a Leap Motion gesture controller?

2013-07-22
it's two cameras three infrared LEDs USB controller those are the major components the actual hardware itself is fairly simple it's all off-the-shelf components all of our IP and all of our secret sauce so to speak is in our algorithm in our software we track all 10 fingers it's very precise and very lowly in scene so you can see that's actually the raw data and the top right-hand corner in millimeters it's a very very fluid movement using the leave controller in Google Earth there's a sweet spot in the middle where if I hold my hand the earth doesn't move and if I move it downwards it zooms down if I go upwards it goes up you can imagine you know you can do all this with a keyboard mouse but you know you wouldn't be able to do it nearly as fluidly and as easily as you can with this controller it's kind of like a music finger dancing puzzle game you know there's no other good way to explain it than just to play it the goal is to hit these little dots here and you kind of have this line that's connected by your two fingers and you can see with this game you know how responsive it is based on the latest movie record Ralph and it's you know if you ever watch the movie they have a scene with the race they put your hand here put your hand here like you're holding a wheel and then you're essentially driving you can use Lemos controller to explore anatomy and learn different body parts so this is the skull right now I'm trying to piece everything back together again and then I can grab different pieces so this is called block 54 essentially our block stacking game just like a game of Jenga you're essentially really pulling blocks apart in 3d space but you're really pulling off the blocks just like you would in real life so this is kind of like a three brick-breaking game so you can push this forward you know it tracks even the angle of my finger so I can really direct where I want it to go so this is a space exploration app that's in our store called exoplanet and essentially you can use the leap device to navigate and explore the universe so you can see it captures every little movement as I go
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