Microsoft pretty much owns the market at the moment for motion controllers that don’t require you hold a device. The Kinect controller has sold in the millions, and continues to help Microsoft shift Xbox 360 consoles. But Kinect is about to get some serious competition.
Leap Motion has started showing off its Leap 3D motion controller. It sounds too good to be true until you watch the videos included here. It takes the form of a USB device a little bigger than a flash drive, costs $69.99, and claims to offer 200x the accuracy of anything else on the market. That equates to an accuracy of 0.01mm.
Leap Motion has started showing off its Leap 3D motion controller. It sounds too good to be true until you watch the videos included here. It takes the form of a USB device a little bigger than a flash drive, costs $69.99, and claims to offer 200x the accuracy of anything else on the market. That equates to an accuracy of 0.01mm.
Plug the Leap 3D into your PC and it is accurate enough to detect even slight finger movements. That allows you to write in midair, perform very accurate pinch-zoom actions, and lets game developers use very specific hand gestures as input for their games.
Leap Motion claims that its technology offers a more accurate input method than a mouse or touchscreen, while at the same time opening up the possibility to take interaction beyond just movement and button clicks.
Leap Motion claims that its technology offers a more accurate input method than a mouse or touchscreen, while at the same time opening up the possibility to take interaction beyond just movement and button clicks.
If you’re wondering why Kinect isn’t this accurate, apparently it has nothing to do with hardware advances and availability. Leap 3D exists due to a software breakthrough, and more specifically Leap Motion figuring out the math to allow for such accurate motion tracking. The underlying hardware is nothing special, hence the $70 price tag.
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