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Amazing. This looks much better than Microsoft's augmented reality stuff, and the price looks a lot more appealing.

I may just replace my beloved Magic Trackpad that's only half a year old with one of those things... it just looks so neat!
 
Looks really neat, but also pretty complicated to fully control.

You would really have to change everything you thought about UI control, as in no more X/Y axis. Which can be a good thing. We are already used to 'natural' scrolling by now, so why not :)
 
Whilst the technology looks pretty cool, two things stand out:

1) Microsoft already did this with their surface tech previews. It resulted in some pretty advanced 'coffee-table' prototypes and the well known Kinect.

2) Who is seriously going to sit there with their arm a foot up in the air in front of their mac? Your arms would ache like crazy after just a few gestures!
 
Can't help feeling this is a solution to a problem that no-one actually has.

It's much harder work that using a mouse or trackpad.

Phone and tablet touch is great as the product is in your hands, and Kinnect gets you involved in a game, but on a desktop computer ?

Oh and my Samsung TV has motion control. It doesn't work.
 
Microsoft's Kinect is already doing this, albeit less elegantly. It's really a bit of an afterthought, to be honest. I'd rather pick up my remote and scroll over than use my hand to swipe left and right.

kinnect is doing this quite well and I hope all laptops, pads, etc .. will move to this type of control.
 
People need to move around more, keeping your arms in motion would be great exercise ! :D

I guess it would depend on what type of work you are doing, but I would love to use this for some projects. Being able to use two hands to move graphics around while doing layouts would speed things up for me.

I can imagine this technology combined with Apple TV. Just point and pick a movie, no need to find the remote first.

Well, I pre-ordered one, just because I like new gadgets.
 
Can't help feeling this is a solution to a problem that no-one actually has.

I can think of numerous situations where touch-less controls make sense. Basically any time you have something on your hands, from batter to bacteria, that you don't want to get on your mouse and keyboard.
 
Will this device improve porn is the question we need to focus on. :D

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I can think of numerous where touch-less controls make sense. Basically any time you have something on your hands, from batter to bacteria, that you don't want to get on your mouse and keyboard.

Indeed as I just asked, you don't want you screen getting all sticky when certain content is on screen, do you? :p
 
sorry guys, I love these forums, god knows I spend quite some time here, but page 1 should not become ad space. This is supposed to be mac rumors.

As an aside, seeing as iad has been such a big fiasco, I think it's only fair to guess why this guy isn't working for apple anymore.
 
Leap = Too much physical effort to control my computer.

I'm lazy. Will someone invent a Thunderbolt port for my brain, please.

[pass me the Twinkies]
 
Arms tired?

I don't think people are grasping what this could do or how it could be used.

Imagine one of these embedded where the current trackpad on mac laptops are.

Now place your hands as if you were using the trackpad. Perhaps the palm of you hand is resting on the edge of the computer, perhaps slightly to the side, perhaps on a table or palm rest right in front of your laptop.

Notice, your arm is completely supported. Now raise your fingers from the trackpad an inch or so. That's the position most people rest their fingers in when they don't want to touch the trackpad, right? Just hovering over the trackpad?

Ok, that's the position you'll use a leap motion in. Same basic position you use a trackpad in, but now you get one extra dimension, and you never need to touch the device.

Kinect is a low resolution device. That's why you need big arm swings to register movement on a kinect. Check out the video for this thing though. It looks incredibly accurate and it picks up very small moves. You won't be waving your arms around, you'll be wiggling your finger(s) around. You won't need to point to a physical location on the screen, you'll have an abstraction of the screen near your keyboard, the same way trackpads now abstract the screen onto a few square inches.

In fact, they could build this thing 'under' the keyboard, eliminate the trackpad entirely. Want to control it? Just lift your right index finger from its position on the keys, pointed to the screen and wiggle it left right, up down.

In a way, it returns us to the IBM trackpoint days, where you could use the mouse without leaving the home row, but with more flexibility, a larger 'canvas', multitouch, and 3 dimensions. We shouldn't need to take our hands off their position above the keys to use this, so it makes it better than current trackpads/mice.
 
Post "Minority Report" era Jobsian sentiment - "If you see a glove, they blew it."

I was about to make a similar comment.

I actually am interested in what this may bring to interactive technology. What is the difference between having your hands gesturing over a trackpad or holding a pen above a Wacom tablet and free-form gesturing with both hands to control a system? My hands don't get tired hovering my Wacom pen (and I don't rest my arm on my desk as it hinders use), and this would open a huge plethora of options. :)

This still impresses me, even this years "The Avengers" demonstrated such tech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwVBzx0LMNQ

Maybe more physical interaction with system UI's would help with the general waistlines of the average IT user :p
 
Whilst the technology looks pretty cool, two things stand out:

1) Microsoft already did this with their surface tech previews. It resulted in some pretty advanced 'coffee-table' prototypes and the well known Kinect.

The tech behind Kincet wasn't developed in house by MS. It's from a 3rd party company called PrimeSense.


Lethal
 
sit on floor cross leg

iflegit you sit on the floor with crossed legs it let's you rest your arms at the knee while your hands are in a lifted keyboard rdy poster so typing is not an issue there.
 
This could replace the mouse! If it works as great as it does in the video, yeah I could see it. But lets be honest when do things always work as the advertisement? The amount of light it requires to register your hand assuming the sensor is a camera.

Also another to point out that I'm seeing, it will never replace Keyboard, never! I know voice recognition will at some point. But it's not that private... Having it at a library, where it needs to be quit, is not going to work. Typing a 3 page paper, ah I don't know.

But this thing looks awesome!
 
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That's so cool. Maybe Apple should buy the company and incorporate the technology into the iMac and Apple TV.

Please no! I'd much prefer if they licensed the technology from them instead so non Apple products can use it to.
 
That looks incredible.

Makes me really glad to be growing in such a technological age. I can't even imagine how my children will be using this stuff in future.

Amazing.

Best of luck to Andy Miller with this move.
 
Consider this technology on a smaller scale, like a small sensor just above the function keys on your keyboard. You could go from your home row to the sensor is a fraction of a second to do mini gestures or move your cursor around.

This is something I could really get excited about.
 
Leap = Too much physical effort to control my computer.

I'm lazy. Will someone invent a Thunderbolt port for my brain, please.

[pass me the Twinkies]

Love it. Sarcasm noted and perfectly appropriate for those complaining. Are we really this lazy? It's not an impractical implementation. I recall similar complaints when Apple released the "Magic Trackpad", now most love it. This is a logical evolutionary step.

What concerns me are the recent large amounts of ex-Apple employees who seem to be making stellar contributions elsewhere while Apple seems to be slowing down a bit. Aside from the "retina/I.R." displays, Apple hasn't released much that is "wowing" me these days. In fact, they're stifling a bit with the lack of a new "Mac Pro" and dedicated display line, as well as USB 3.0 and SATA III. I could go on but it's been hashed enough.
 
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