When you watch the movie, ‘Iron man’, Tony Stark (Iron man) has many high technologies which are very interested. Especially, one of most high technology is the computer which does not need to mouse. Instead, it recognizes the human’s hands and activate with hands’ motion. This technology is called ‘Leap Motion.’
Actually, Leap Motion is not for technology, but it is company name. Leap Motion, Inc. is an American company that manufactures and markets a computer hardware sensor device that supports hand and finger motions as input, analogous to a mouse, but requires no hand contact or touching. Because of the company name, leap motion is known as technology. The Leap Motion controller is a small USB peripheral device which is designed to be placed on a physical desktop, facing upward. Using two monochromatic IR cameras and three infrared LEDs, the device observes a roughly hemispherical area, to a distance of about 1 meter (3.28084 feet). The LEDs generate pattern-less IR light and the cameras generate almost 300 frames per second of reflected data, which is then sent through a USB cable to the host computer, where it is analyzed by the Leap Motion controller software using “complex maths” in a way that has not been disclosed by the company, in some way synthesizing 3D position data by comparing the 2D frames generated by the two cameras.
In fact, I’d say that Leap might even be better than the imaginary technology from Johnny Mneumonic, because you don’t need to wear anything to use it.
All you need are your hands. Or a pencil. Or a paintbrush. Or whatever you’d work with in real life.
The Leap is a simple box about the size of a flash drive, and it just sits on your desk near your monitor. It projects a “box” 8 cubic feet around itself, which you can use as a work space. When you make gestures inside this box, the Leap can track them.
This isn’t Wii or Kinect-level technology here – it’s much better. According the Leap website, the technology is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market right now, and can track movements as small as 1/100th of a millimeter.
And the best part? There’s an SDK for developers coming, which means that we might soon have a plethora of applications to use that are specifically built to work best with the Leap.
Imagine modeling 3D images in Blender just by molding them like clay. Or building a website just by using your finger to draw the sections of each page. Or playing a shooter and just pointing your finger at your enemies to take them out.
It is related with IoT (Internet of Things). When you have this device, you can control all of your machine with this device.As a result, users can approach the systems without any difficult knowledge. It will be very useful for user to use any device.
As a fan of Iron man, the news of Holographic computer with leap motion sounds interesting for me. It would be awesome to have high technology with recognizing hands’ motions instead of using mouse. According to your article, there are some new interesting information such as USB peripheral device, Blender, technology from Johnny Mneumonic, which need to wear for using, etc.
However, I searched about this new technology, leap motion, and found out article about disadvantage of it. According to article I found, there are two problems of Leap motion. First, even though Leap motion have done impressive job with detecting hands and fingers, it stops there. It is difficult to manipulate things such as task files. Furthermore, touch is useful for smart phone, but not for laptops or desktop. In other word, this new technology is the wrong mode for a laptop.
In conclusion, this new technology, which reforms some disadvantage, will be great and useful in close future. I would like to see and use this perfection version of this technology.
Hi, the trailer of the product done by Leap Motion inc. is pretty cool ! I love that. I can hardly imagine how the world will be changed by a tiny piece of USB. But some problems that might get involved with the product. Some people might need the computer to write their essay or other paperworks. The technology won’t do any good since it can only rely on the small USB device. Second, the device can’t get too sensitive, or people might think their laptop or computer got virus but the reason is that they are making some actions.