Introducing the Leap Motion

Leap Motion represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. 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.

The Leap Motion will begin shipping on May 13, 2013.

The Leap Motion works on Windows Vista/7/8 and Mac OS X, with Linux being on the agenda.

In this video, we are running Windows 7. The display is an Apple Cinema display.

[HerrDeutschBlood]

This would be sweet if this device worked with Surgeon Simulator. That way I wouldn't have to deal with the awkward keyboard or mouse mechanics it currently has.

[gadget]

Raised close to $100M in investment money and never launched a decent product or impacted the tech industry as a whole. Not even the actual "Metaverse" efforts include them, and now the founder went to build an AI company Midjourney because, well that's where VC money is right now. Epic failure in all senses

[DogeDELUX]

Aw yeah this is definitely the technology what Tony Stark would've used!

[david_escalante]

I got it mine 1 hour ago and I can't tell you it doesn't tire you that much.

Also you can use it with your arms down as long the hand is visible.

I'm totally satisfied with this.

[Peaceman]

VR revived this, luckily for us you can now buy them for just 20$ because it failed and have huge stocks left

[abdelrhmanelmahdy]

isn't that exhausting for the arm

[photelegy]

9 years ago... And where is this awesome tech to buy now with this precision?

[neugenesmith]

Sorry for the glibness - I appreciate the differences in the two products, and your response. I am curious to see this in actual use. My point was really to express skepticism, as the Kinect seemed like a really cool device that might be revolutionary, but its abilities as a primary user interface are wanting. Please prove me wrong though!

[DerekZyxw]

I can see many people using this in the future.

[Houdini]

It costs $80 I don't have. Otherwise I would jump all over this. I've been wanting one for about a year now.

[BobKimball]

They probably announced it a little too early but it gave developers time to invent new ways to use the technology, write a fully-functional SDK and finalize/mass-produce the hardware (a few hundred thousand devices). Preorders ship July 22nd and they should be available in Best Buy later that week.

[chrisediting]

Oh Man!! That's so cool. I might get that for my iMac.

[KodenF]

I love how whenever somebody makes a peripheral like this and they want to demonstrate some games with it... They ALWAYS pick Half-Life 2.

[Grey]

SPOILER ALERT: the wow factor wears off after a couple of hours of use and you'll revert to using a mouse and keyboard again after putting the leapmotion back in its box, never to be seen again.

[rubenssz]

The latency depends on hardware, so if the hardware is capable of fast processing there's no noticeable latency.
It'll tire your arms if use them in a demanding position, e.g. your arms above or too far from your chest. If your elbow is next to your ribs you probably won't get your arm tired.
And you haven't used it to know whether it is smooth or not...

[badgereaux]

At the moment, we can't access the point cloud data. It may become available later on, but it's supposed to be an HID rather than a laser scanner.

[Harjuje]

It works on Windows, Linux and OS X. They may also add android support later.

[samu]

I've asked the creators of this device many times, and they have told me that you can keep your arm on the desk, so it won't get tired. I wish I could tell you that I have used it, but I would have preordered it if I had to keep my arm up the whole time. I hope I answered your question!

[TheBcoolGuy]

you put your hands down if you're not doing anything! And you can still use the mouse and keyboard too if you want to. You pretty much have to in the beginning. Once it gets everything down and devs get more into it, everyone will have one of these everywhere. In the living room to change channels and managing the user interface from the couch w/o a remote and as a password you have to write out to get into your home. And at their computer too ofc. This will work awesomely with OS X.

[NeilWardleVideo]

it seems that you have to be close, like right next to the sensor