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Exciting stuff! Exciting times! I think this device together with all the other input devices we already use could be awesome. Tempted to preorder - but I'll wait for a few reviews.

We're getting pretty close to that Minority Report interface aren't we (not saying that's what we should be aiming for).
 
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If touch screen monitors don't work, I don't see why this would be any different - just you're not actually touching the glass.

Not that it doesn't look cool, but I prefer a keyboard / trackpad setup :)
 
I would buy this, for the price they ask. This has potential. Work at your desk with mouse and keyboard, quickly swipe in the air to the left to access your other space. Or running around the house cleaning, quickly changing a song in iTunes by swiping. Could also be interesting for autographing documents. This in a way could partly replace the touch capabilities of your magic mouse. Use an normal mouse for day to day use (which is easier for gaming anyway) + add in some gestures with the Leap. I like it :) Now I only need to know how it will integrate itself in the OS.
 
Tony Stark's computer

Does this remind anyone else of how Tony Stark would use his hands to control his computer?


ME WANT!


On another note can we change the name of siri to Jarvis?

Please?
 
It's a gimmick and a toy. Any Old Geezer that doesn't understand technology change and adaptations who works on a computer all day long understands this isn't the most ideal way to do anything. The whole office would look like those people with the flashlights on the runway. It would be so tiring for us old folks.


Fixed that for you. :cool:

Plus if you did some research, you'd understand that there is no need to be waiving your arms around to control your computer with this device. With it's accuracy as mentioned above, imagine you 27 inch iMac being a 5 x 5 inch touchscreen above this device. Then you can add on the additional 3d aspects and features and make the space a 5x5x5 cube where you control your computer from with all of your fingers. Using as many multi diminutional gestures that you can remember. I guess being in my early 20's is a plus for me because we can adapt to tech changes so quickly! I feel bad for you old folk... :(

But I can see where you are coming from. The usability of this device will totally depend on the users age and what they use their work computers for. I am a student and I do a lot of 3d modeling, so I will use the Leap very extensively, but an older person that sits and mainly does word processing, I don't see too many benefits of the leap for them unless they do what I wrote in my previous post with the leap on it's side.
 
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.

Thats because Apple are shifting focus to high-volume mid-cost sales of iOS 'dumb' devices instead of computers. This is the post PC era...apparently!
 
wow what a terrible user interface

this will be the theremin of the computer world

"used on a couple of hit records and quickly forgotten about"
 
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.

That's exactly the way I see it. A trackpad without friction. And with plenty of customized gestures.
 
This is truly amazing. Can't wait to see how it performs in person, but the video look stunning.

Imagine this integrated into an iMac or MacBook Pro.
 
This will be great to control your computer from far away... If you connect your computer by HDMI to your TV.... Or for the rumored Apple TV
 
That's so cool. Maybe Apple should buy the company and incorporate the technology into the iMac and Apple TV.

And Andy will run through the hallways shouting: "Not again! Apple took my toys - AGAIN!"

Or, scenario 2. Phone call to Tim Cook: "Hey Tim, it's Andy. Yep. They are worth it and ripe for the harvest. Yes. The money allocated for the the coffee machine upgrade? Sure. Done deal. It's all yours."
 
That's so cool. Maybe Apple should buy the company and incorporate the technology into the iMac and Apple TV.

Oh god no. If they buy it the technology will always be limited to just Apple. We don't want that - Well, I don't want that.
 
Is this as freakin' awesome as it looks?!? If it has fine motion control for say, photo editing, I'll be saying bye-bye to my Wacoms!

Edit: from their website: "the Leap can distinguish your individual fingers and track your movements down to a 1/100th of a millimeter."

Looking again at the demo with the wireframe hand(s) mirroring the user's hands - seems mighty tight. Also the pen writing.

I'm also reading the posts deriding the usefulness of the input devise. Bet NONE of them use a tablet, nor see any use for one. Neither did I, until my productivity doubled on it.
 
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It's a cool idea but no way practical.

I would use it for 5 mins and then put it away until friends come over and then I would show it off like I'm in the minority report.
 
That is one of the coolest things that I have seen in a long time! Now, let's hope that we can see this come to market and not see lawsuits to the high heavens!

Seems like so much good technology is stymied by silly lawsuits.
 
Well I have pre-ordered one. You can cancel closer to the time if you want to - I also happen to think its a great way to get tech off the blocks and I would anticipate this is going to take off far faster than the trackpad.

The picture is a little misleading without the USB cable - I thought initially that it would connect via Bluetooth. Hopefully the device is as real as I hope rather than the misleading picture may portray.
 
Thats because Apple are shifting focus to high-volume mid-cost sales of iOS computers instead of Mac OS X computers. This is the post PC era...apparently!

Fixed that there for you.

There's nothing dumb about iOS. It runs its own applications locally vs a real dumb terminal would is just a deported display for remote applications over a network protocol like X11, IBM TN3270, Citrix ICA/Microsoft RDP, NX or any other such thin client computing solution.

But of course, you know this right, you were just hyperboling ? ;)
 
Fixed that there for you.

There's nothing dumb about iOS. It runs its own applications locally vs a real dumb terminal would is just a deported display for remote applications over a network protocol like X11, IBM TN3270, Citrix ICA/Microsoft RDP, NX or any other such thin client computing solution.

But of course, you know this right, you were just hyperboling ? ;)

No, he was right before. Spot on in fact :D
 
Nope. He left Apple. If he was an 'in', that would be considered corporate espionage which is illegal in this country.

Check it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage

I know what you're thinking. Using him as an 'in' to persuade Leap Motion to a buyout from Apple. It's still corporate espionage and manipulation. Besides, Leap's smart move is to license the tech.

The minute Apple tries to buy them out, it proves the point that they could'nt innovate that tech. It proves the point that Leap beat them to the punch. Think about it. WHY did'nt Apple NOT THINK of that in the first place?

Apple does'nt innovate, they buy and assimilate for exclusivity purposes. They're no different than Microsoft.

Yes.. cause when Apple bought Polar Rose for their face-recognition, it proves they didn't have the ability to implement a solution of their own. Or because Polar Rose already had the technology and rather than spend R&D creating a similar, probably patent-stealing method themselves, they acquire a company that does it already?

Or when they bought FingerWorks (technology used in iOS touchscreen), it wasn't because Apple wanted to use the technology already created and perfectly implement it.. it was because Apple has never thought of being able to touch something with two points of contact and have it work.

:rolleyes:
 
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