ges-sa.com | "When the Leap Motion Controller landed on my desk I had my doubts. The press blurb that came with the Leap bragged impressive things and threw around words like Revolutionary. I’ve thrown around a few things too, including a Nintendo Wii controller after I lost a tennis match because it just didn’t track my movements properly. The Leap offers up “true gesture controlled computing”. I remember a time when a PC programme with headphones and a microphone claimed it could transcribe your ramblings directly to Word; all you needed to do was talk. A good couple of years later I still get great joy in watching people go red trying to deal with Suri.
The point I’m trying to make? I had my doubts about the Leap.
It’s a small piece of hardware that fits in front of your PC screen and opens up a dome like 3D space with a 150° field of view and a Z-axis for depth .The technology tracks movements at a rate of more than 200 frames per second and tracks all 10 fingers up to 1/100th of a millimetre. Sounding a bit like a Kinect sensor bar? Not quite, while it doesn’t cover as large an area as the Kinect it works somewhat differently (and I’d say better) in that the Leap uses infrared optics and cameras instead of depth sensors."
The new design features a raft of professional features.
Schematics for Project North Star AR headset go open source.
It's neither pretty or small, but it is still a prototype.
