Leap Motion isn't convinced that a touchscreen is enough: instead, it wants you to start waving. While gesturing wildly at your electronics may bring to mind Jean Michel Jarre or trying to play a ...

(Boston Globe) In this episode of Tech Lab, Hiawatha Bray demonstrates how the Leap Motion controller can detect a users hand motions to control certain applications on a computer instead of using a ...

Upon receiving the $80 little box, the packaging makes a good first impression. Inside the box you’ll find Leap Motion controller itself, and two USB cables (a shorter one and a longer one: usable ...

Before you draw midair masterpieces, or flick bricks with your finger, find out which settings and best-practices optimize the Leap Motion Controller for speed, accuracy, and ergonomics. Sharon Profis ...

Modern smartphones have helped shed a light on the power of user interfaces that are driven by gesture and touch. It’s increasingly clear that touch will play a prominent role in the future of ...

While the venerable computer mouse pre-dates many of its users, the simplistic two-dimensional pointing device still remains the de facto method for translating input from users to computers. In the ...

I don't regard this as a failure when a 200 fps motion capture device is fine with its own apps and then lags when used with Google Earth's sluggish web api. Maybe someone could combine it with Kinect ...

Leap Motion debuted in June 2012 with an impressively polished demo, but after its attention-getting debut, the company’s path to market got quite a bit rockier. It had to woo partners on both the ...

Touchscreens are now fairly standard in Windows 8 notebooks, but HP’s new Envy 17 Leap Motion SE has integrated yet another type of input: touchless. The Envy has Leap Motion’s gesture recognition ...

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by Seth Colaner — Monday, June 24, 2013, 02:23 PM EDT Leap Motion has making a bit of noise in the computer industry, snagging a partnership with ASUS to bundle its controller with PCs, getting it ...