Leap Motion Looks like The Future

I’m prob­a­bly the last per­son to know about this and nerdgas­ming over new tech­nol­ogy is not some­thing I typ­i­cally do around here, but LOOK AT THIS THING, you guys:

I found out about Leap Motion from the com­ment sec­tion of the Ouya Kick­starter , where a vocal group of back­ers are push­ing to get it inte­grated with the con­sole (an idea I fully support).

Here’s a bit more about the device and how it works:

“The 3D ges­ture con­trol that’s like Kinect on steroids”

Leap Motion’s not the house­hold name Kinect is, but it should be — the company’s motion-tracking sys­tem is more pow­er­ful, more accu­rate, smaller, cheaper, and just more impres­sive. The Leap uses a num­ber of cam­era sen­sors to map out a work­space of sorts — it’s a 3D space in which you oper­ate as you nor­mally would, with almost none of the Kinect’s angle and dis­tance restrictions.

Cur­rently the Leap uses VGA cam­era sen­sors, and the work­space is about three cubic feet; Holz told us that big­ger, bet­ter sen­sors are the only thing required to make that num­ber more like thirty feet, or three hun­dred. Leap’s device tracks all move­ment inside its force field, and is remark­ably accu­rate, down to 0.01mm. It tracks your fin­gers indi­vid­u­ally, and knows the dif­fer­ence between your fin­gers and the pen­cil you’re hold­ing between two of them.

[via The Verge ]

Leap Motion is arriv­ing in Feb­ru­ary 2013.  It’s sur­pris­ingly afford­able at only $69.99 plus S&H to pre-order one .

Can you imag­ine what inter­net porn will be like now?

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