Introducing the Leap...

shizz

The $70 ‘Leap’, which isn’t much bigger than your average USB dongle, connects to an existing computer or laptop USB port of a laptop or PC to create an interactive three-dimensional space said to b ’200 times more accurate’ than existing devices.
This 4-cubic feet squared field can be manipulated using fingers or other implements such as pencils.

In fact, so precise is The Leap that the company behind it claim that it can accurately register the sharpened tip of a pencil to 1/100 of a millimeter – making it perfect for pixel-perfect digital drawing, or signature signing.

Such precision opens up a world of potential for The Leap – far more than swiping and pinching your vacation photos or playing Angry Birds:

Precise virtual drawing in 2-D and 3-D
Signing a digital document by writing in air
Navigating large-scale 3-D data visualisation systems
Creating and manipulating 3-D models like houses and cars
Playing computer games, including fast-twitch first-person shooters
“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.” says Leap Motion’s CEO Michael Buckwald.

Should The Leap prove to be every bit as responsive in ‘the wild’ as it is in the video demo then, hyperbole or not, the device could find itself used as the dictionary definition of ‘game changer’.

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Unbelievable stuff.

vibe666

that's actually very cool. move over kinect, there's a new sheriff in town!

_AVALANCHE_

My arms are tired just looking at it.

shizz

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

My arms are tired just looking at it.

Yeah that's what most people are saying but realistically it's not for people sitting in front of their computer all night scrolling through reddit.

_AVALANCHE_

who is it for....that's if it works like it shows in the vid...which these things generally don't.

Where's all the cool gadgets?

shizz

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

who is it for....that's if it works like it shows in the vid...which these things generally don't.

Where's all the cool gadgets?

All the cool gadgets?

I'll just give what they say it's aimed for:

Everyone! We envision a day in the near future when our motion control technology will be used in most consumer products – not just computers, but cars, appliances, medical devices, light switches and more. There are already many great uses for a variety of people.

Artists and creative types can use The Leap to emulate a stylus or easily create 3D images.
Anyone can use The Leap to interact with Windows 7/8 or Mac OS X by clicking, grabbing, scrolling and using familiar gestures like pinch to zoom in 3D space.
Users pointing a pen at the signature line of a document to sign it in space.
Engineers can interact more easily with 3D modeling software.
Gamers can play more easily and many will modify with Leap in mind.
Surgeons can control 3D medical data with their hands without taking off their gloves.

Skerries

you know we are all going to try and predict future murders

_AVALANCHE_

shizz wrote: »

All the cool gadgets?

Flying Cars, Hoverboards, feck, the Holodeck is still 50, 50 years away.:(


If they upgraded this so we could run at 50mph and leap tall buildings it'd be something.:P

Phones have moved on big time but so much is being delayed or purposely held back.....unless it has the potential to help blow shite up.


This Fridge would be nice

You'd like one? To bad

it's 40 years away

, why bother even showing it?

Some interesting stuff in that.

vibe666

nothing is instant. we didn't get quad core 1.5ghz phones overnight, it's all about the evolution of technology, not the revolution.

think of the phone you had 10-12 years ago compared to the ones that are available today, it's all moving forward and we'll get there sooner or later, it's just baby steps.

also, i've pre-ordered a leap, so i guess we'll see how it goes when it arrives (around dec-jan)

shizz

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

Flying Cars, Hoverboards, feck, the Holodeck is still 50, 50 years away.:(..........


......Some interesting stuff in that.

All that stuff is well and good but I fail to see what it has to do with this? They are all technologies in the pipeline. This is one which is available. If you want people to hurry up and create all the "cool gadgets" you want then get involved with it?

For the minority report screen all we'd need is a glass sheeting which can have images projected onto it and one of these guys thinned out and stuck to the bottom of the glass*.

*Obviously not as easy as that but you get the idea

mach1982

Just pre ordered :-)

Skerries

does this need a camera attached to the pc?

vibe666

Skerries wrote: »

does this need a camera attached to the pc?

nope, nothing to do with cameras, it's just the little sensor pad below your hands like you see in the promo video.

Gone Drinking

70 dollars? Looks too good to be true..

Yet I still pre-ordered :pac:

_AVALANCHE_

shizz wrote: »

For the minority report screen all we'd need is a glass sheeting which can have images projected onto it and one of these guys thinned out and stuck to the bottom of the glass*.

*Obviously not as easy as that but you get the idea

I "think" Nokia were recently granted a patent for this.

Window phone concept

Is it a window, is it a phone? No. Actually, it’s Window phone and this is the part where you are saying “Whaaat? What are you talking about?”. The phone is actually a concept with extraordinary features. Surely if this could be actually put into production, it would set a new standard for the term “cool”.

LG have this,

shizz

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

I "think" Nokia were recently granted a patent for this.


LG have this,

That LG thing doesn't look up too much does it? Where as the Nokia one was more what I was talking about. Although it just looks like pure photoshop. No demo's? Or did they just patent the idea without making it?

CajunPenguin

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

who is it for....that's if it works like it shows in the vid...which these things generally don't.

Where's all the cool gadgets?

Actually it was on display and apparently it works perfectly

BionicRasher

might pre order one of those.

Cant wait till this comes for my kitchen window at home
http://videos.cnet.co.uk/crave-live/samsung-transparent-lcd-smart-window-hands-on-40001999/

Also like what Corning are coming up with http://youtu.be/6Cf7IL_eZ38?hd=1

shizz

tui0hcg wrote: »

might pre order one of those.

Cant wait till this comes for my kitchen window at home
http://videos.cnet.co.uk/crave-live/samsung-transparent-lcd-smart-window-hands-on-40001999/

Also like what Corning are coming up with http://youtu.be/6Cf7IL_eZ38?hd=1

Well looks like we nearly have everything sorted for Minority Report. Now where can we find people who can tell the future...

vibe666

shizz wrote: »

Well looks like we nearly have everything sorted for Minority Report. Now where can we find people who can tell the future...

screw the future, i want a sick stick! :pac:
"yeah, go on, p1ss me off, see what you get!" *prod*

shizz

vibe666 wrote: »

screw the future, i want a sick stick! :pac:
"yeah, go on, p1ss me off, see what you get!" *prod*

That would be my worst nightmare.

vibe666

shizz wrote: »

That would be my worst nightmare.

me with a sick stick? :pac:

the temptation to go ona rampage with it might just be too much, although if i did it in dublin city centre on a friday night i wonder if anyone would even notice any difference?

EJ22

Found out about this today from a friend, I'm gutted I don't have the money to pre-order one now

vibe666

EJ22 wrote: »

Found out about this today from a friend, I'm gutted I don't have the money to pre-order one now

won't be out till dec-jan time, so save up and pre-order it closer to the time. i'm sure you'll still get yours around the same time as the rest of us if you order it before the launch.

Squeaky the Squirrel

vibe666 wrote: »

won't be out till dec-jan time, so save up and pre-order it closer to the time. i'm sure you'll still get yours around the same time as the rest of us if you order it before the launch.

Shipping rumored for March now.

Didn't you move house? May want to change your address on the pre-order?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025398/leap-motion-signs-exclusive-deal-with-best-buy.html

Overheal

Soon.

It will be interesting to see if it lives up to the demo. I don't see how such a small piece of unseeming tech could derive such an accurate rendering of the user's hand, when they showed the hand-mirroring in the 3D space.

vibe666

Squeaky the Squirrel wrote: »

Shipping rumored for March now.

Didn't you move house? May want to change your address on the pre-order?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025398/leap-motion-signs-exclusive-deal-with-best-buy.html

:eek:

good point, thanks!

Dingatron

Quick Bump on the Leap. It's the launch day today I pre-ordered one in June 12 and it's now with FedEx at the minute. Looking forward to trying it out and seeing what apps are available for it.

CreepingDeath

I got the pre-release developer edition about 5 months ago.

It's interesting, but a LOT of developers expected to get access to the 3D point cloud, and use it as a poor mans 3D scanner.
But so far they can't.
If Leap give the developers what they asked for, you'd see some very interesting new applications.

I see the Leap usage being like a USB joystick.
You won't use it constantly, only plugging it in for specific applications.

It's not going to replace the mouse, the amount of people that will sue for
arm/back ache keeping their arms in the air would be too much.

Dingatron

***Bubble Burst***

You mean it won't be like Minority Report?

Hopefully what the developers are looking for happens and this is win win for everyone. With the amount of pre-orders and deals they've done with hardware manufacturers though I'd like to be optimistic in its use long term. It's usefulness is totally dependant on development I'd have thought.

BloodBath

You won't use it constantly, only plugging it in for specific applications.

What applications? If it's worse than current controls, which it is, it won't be adopted by anyone.

It's not going to be used for gaming or digital drawing as some have suggested. You have no arm/wrist rest for drawing and no tactile feedback so what artists would use it?

I may be wrong but I don't see it going anywhere.

Overheal

How does it work for things like CAD or say google Draw?

Im not at liberty to upload a photo, but I can say I've held the boxed product in my hands. 1 week to launch day. Curious to see it in action.

vibe666

according to FedEx, mine was shipped on the 20th and should arrive on Friday.

Skerries

want mine now!, I ordered this May 2012

vibe666

Skerries wrote: »

want mine now!, I ordered this May 2012

think i ordered mine around the same time, so you can't be far behind me.

Skerries

vibe666 wrote: »

according to FedEx, mine was shipped on the 20th and should arrive on Friday.

do you know how much they charged you as they just emailed me again after I updated my details a few weeks ago to say that i had to enter them in again and charged me €94 inc. delivery?
They even said in the email that I would get it at the pre-order price but they charged me full whack

vibe666

Skerries wrote: »

do you know how much they charged you as they just emailed me again after I updated my details a few weeks ago to say that i had to enter them in again and charged me €94 inc. delivery?
They even said in the email that I would get it at the pre-order price but they charged me full whack

$84.73 according to my invoice.

and it arrived last night. not had much chance to play with it yet though.

mrmanunited

I got mine! But I have to be honest, im a little disappointed.

Firstly, I run a slightly older mac and on Snow Leopard, and half the apps dont work on it! There was no warning and luckily I hadnt bought any, but it seems it needs the latest osx

There is very limited use to what you can do. there is an app to be some kind of mouse pointer, but it really isnt practical and not easy to use, plus I look like a wally!

im sure the leap will have uses with painting applications, but there is no real support for photoshop or illustrator yet, and without trials for apps, im not willing to give them a go at 10 euros a go!

it really seems like a gimmick but it does have lots of potential... I'd love to have it linked up to my media centre and control Plex or videos but as an every day device, there needs much more work to improve its responsiveness and support!

Overheal

brand new controller, naturally I don't expect it would work on anything predating Lion.

You can see in the Debug mode though the controller itself is rather accurate inspite of the apps themselves being less useful (like Google Earth.) Some things like the DoubleFine game that comes with it handle very well.

mrmanunited

Overheal wrote: »

brand new controller, naturally I don't expect it would work on anything predating Lion.

You can see in the Debug mode though the controller itself is rather accurate inspite of the apps themselves being less useful (like Google Earth.) Some things like the DoubleFine game that comes with it handle very well.

I know where you are coming from with Lion and its up to me to upgrade, but I would like some warning what I can use and what works. The apps are pretty expensive and I dont want that to be a massive waste...

And yes, the test app and the orientation are spot on, really accurate and detailed, but any practical app just doesnt cut it for me

I really want this to succeed, but my two cents is give this 3-4 months and see what has been developed before you spend your cash

mach1982

I've got one , pre order months ago. It has a SDK for windows , MAC, and Linux..

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