impressive, amazing, but not practical..keeping your arm up will be very uncomfortable after few minutes of use
impressive, amazing, but not practical..keeping your arm up will be very uncomfortable after few minutes of use
I don't understand why many people in this thread think that this technology is suppose to replace a mouse and a keyboard and that it's suppose to be used for literally everything...
I don't understand why many people in this thread think that this technology is suppose to replace a mouse and a keyboard and that it's suppose to be used for literally everything...
I feel like my arm(s) would get tired after a while of constantly holding them up in the air.
Or gave seed funding...
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This technology is remarkable. It will go great with my Thunderbolt Display. Controlling such a big screen with gestures like that is awesome. I'm definitely getting it. At that price it is definitely a good value.
They've built a better light pen. It will fail for the same reason the light pen failed.
This looks like a great product but I feel that my arms would get tired quite easily, especially if I'm sitting on a chair. I think this product is perfect if the computer was laid flat. That way, my arms would not get tired so easily.
I pre-ordered mine a while back and I've been keeping up to date with their forums. The ideas that devs are posting about are incredible, and the first batch of developer kits are being sent out this month. I can't wait to get my hands on this thing and see what ideas come to fruition.
My plan is to use this device on its side pointing towards me at my desk. My desk will be a virtual keyboard and when I lift my 2 index fingers off of the surface of my desk, it will toggle mouse control for mouse navigation. Sure, I'll probably have a piece of paper with my Dvorak keyboard printed on it and taped onto my desk for the first little bit to train my fingers, but after that I'll be flying!
People on these forums need to start thinking outside of the box, my arms will be nicely rested while controling my OS using this device! And even if I want the device pointing upwards, my arm/hand position will be nearly identical to that when I use the magic trackpad, only my palm/fingers will be in the air above the device instead of on the trackpad.
Plus I can't wait for AutoDesk and SolidWorks to jump on board with this thing! Creating, manipulating, and presenting my 3d drawings to clients with this intuitive technology will be priceless!
On a side note, imagine what this device can do in hospitals in the OR. Doctors can take CT and other scans into the OR and interact with them without having to worry about touching anything to risk contamination. They can explore the 3d rendering of the scan while they are performing the operation and be absolutely confident when they make the next cut to expose that cancer tumor.
The possibilities of this thing are endless! I'm always excited about new technology and I love adapting to changes in computing for the better! This is an amazing age of technological change that we are living in and you all should embrace it, not dwell and complain on it.
I agree that touch based interfaces work best in a horizontal aspect rather than vertical... but I find this a funny argument against gesture-based interfaces... those of us who work on computers all day seem to forget that many people spend their careers doing actual physical labor.
Compare this to swinging a hammer all day, or working overhead underneath a car... or raking lawns...
I am thinking that a bit more movement will probably do us good. I have been working on computers long enough that my wrists are starting to hurt/go numb... I am also realizing I spend too much of the day sitting down... Like many, I have been pondering one of those standing desks that are so popular now. I can see a technology like the Leap augmenting my current workflow.
The human body is just is not adapted for a career comprising the types of small, repetitive movements current interfaces require...
Notsureifsrs... Leap motion can detect objects like a stick, wich you can use as a pen
You missed my point. The light pen is an ancient input device that taught the lesson people still seem to not be getting. Your hands want to rest on the table, not be held above it for extended periods of time, gesturing in the air.
Technology has changed but human physiology has not.
I See this with the next Apple TV black box. Inside of it. As Apple always do limit their gestures to basic and making the greatest product ever invented. To Hell with kinect and their science, lets enjoy tv with gestures the basic way and rule the entertainment world.![]()
I'm not too sure how this device performs long distance wise. I can see a 3rd generation leap being built into television sets but to have this version built into your Apple TV would kind of be silly.
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The problem I think is that the keyboard/mouse/trackpad/tablet input devices are all complementary to each other. They all have a specific purpose and do their task well in conjunction with the other input devices you have. This thing however, doesn't seem to have a specific purpose, a niche which only it can fill.
That is why I think people think this stuff would replace keyboards/mice/trackpads/tablets, and frankly, that seems rather far fetched to me.
To be fair its purpose didn't exist when the mouse was first invented. It took many years for it to become an essential tool for computer users.