By now, many of us are aware of the Leap Motion, a small, $70 gesture control system that simply plugs into any computer and, apparently, just works. If you’ve seen the gesture interfaces in Minority Report, you know what it does. More importantly, if you’re familiar with the touch modality — and at this point, most of us are — the interface is entirely intuitive. It’s touch, except it happens in the space in front of the screen, so you don’t have to cover your window into your tech with all those unsightly smudges.
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Virtual finger-zoom. Are these guys going to run into any gesture-patent issues with this? The fact they are supplying a virtual tablet that mimics the gestures, does that get around any software patent issues?
Half joking, but these days, half-serious…
I wondered the same thing…
If this really is as close as they say it is to a real product on the market, and it’s that fast and accurate, it just turned Kinect into another giant pie in $MSFT’s face. The $MSFT engineers come up with great stuff, then the company wastes the marketing opportunity through a complete and utter lack of imagination and inability to execute. When will the shareholders riot?