LEAP MOTION Technology

              

LEAP MOTION

         While searching for technologies, I come across with Leap Motion technology which impress a lot and useful too.

Leap Motion is a company developing advanced motion sensing technology for human–computer interaction. Originally inspired by frustration surrounding 3D modeling using a mouse and keyboard, Leap Motion makes as easy to interact with the machines and has partnered with ASUS.

Leap Motion provides the world’s most powerful and sensitive touch-free 3-D motion-control and motion-sensing technology. Leap Motion’s proprietary technology, invented by co-founder David Holz, can track the movement of both hands and all 10 fingers with up to 1/100th millimeter accuracy and no visible latency. The Leap Motion Controller is a small USB device. The Leap Motion technology can easily embed into other consumer and enterprise hardware. Leap Motion allows anyone to use natural movements to interact with their computer, browse the web or use motion-control applications found in Airspace. For more information, visit www.leapmotion.com.

How it works:

The Leap Motion controller is a small USB peripheral device which is designed to be placed on a physical desktop, facing upward. Using two cameras and three infrared LEDs, the device observes a roughly hemispherical area, to a distance of about 1 meter (3 feet). It is designed to track fingers (or similar items such as a pen) which cross into the observed area, to a spatial precision of about 0.01 mm. An advertisement video provides a visual demonstration.
The smaller observation area and higher resolution of the device differentiates the product from the Kinect, which is more suitable for whole-body tracking in a space the size of a living room In a demonstration to CNET, The Leap was shown to perform tasks such as navigating a website, using pinch-to-zoom gestures on maps, high-precision drawing, and manipulating complex 3D data visualizations. Leap Motion CEO Michael Buckwald told CNET:

"We want there to be world-changing applications that fundamentally transform how people interact with their operating system or browse the Web.... The goal is to fundamentally transform how people interact with computers and to do so in the same way that the mouse did, which means that the transformation affects everyone, both from the most basic use case all the way up to the most advanced use cases you can imagine for computing technology."

Leap Motion has distributed thousands of units for free to developers who are interested in creating applications for the device. The current version available for pre-order requires a USB connection (≤ 5 feet USB cables). LeapMotion is planning for a wireless version in the future.

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Sources:
Read more: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/leap-motion#ixzz2Tv6quSlK
Wiki:          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_Motion
Website:     www.leapmotion.com.