Leap Motion- the magical revolution!!

I got a chance to attend a nice technical session on Leap Motion last evening organized by Melbourne Java & JVM user group, and it was an amazing new technology which all of us were seeing only in fictional films. It might be a killer technology in the future and let's look some details of this interesting device.



As you can see, using this we can interact nicely with our computer by hand gestures. The device captures the hand gestures in 3 dimension and we can use the data received from the device in anyway we want. It's a small device which connects through USB to the computer and above all it's not that much expensive!

Airspace- the Appstore of leap motion introduces this as "Hands and fingers are free to move anywhere, so apps are free to do anything"

So you can

• Zoom in & navigate using your hand in Google Earth
• Mold a masterpiece in 3D
• Play air guitar for real
• Fly a plane with your hands
• Play many games using hands

Think how nice it would be to play Fruit Ninja or Stick cricket using this ;)

Worth noting that still this is in evolving stage, so there are some improvements required and being improved as well. There are arguments that this is no more powerful than Microsoft's Kinect and not able to detect tiny movements. True, after all no technology could be invented error free! So we could expect much much improvements in this soon.

There are Leap Motion Developer SDKs available for Windows, Linux & Mac with required examples and libraries, so it's worth giving a try in this revolutionary device. Here is another useful video containing more details of this:



Hope it was helpful guys and catch you with another interesting topic soon!