Leap Motion release date has been announced to be July 28. The powerful gesturing controller will be available in Best Buy this coming Sunday. In the review below, Jobs & Hire will explore the answers to: "Why is this technology worth buying?" and "How do you download apps for Leap Motion?"
The innovative device from Leap Wireless International, Inc. is promising the world with a freedom in human computer interaction that has only been imagined by science fiction. With this new technology, any user with a PC that trumps the Windows 7 or Mac OS X 10.7 requirements might no longer have to hold a mouse or to tap the touch pad. The clever controller functions perfectly on any desktop, laptop, or tablet PC, but not yet on iPads and Android tablets.
With Leap Motion, interactions with the computer is no longer bound to physical conduction, but the liberation that it brings will enable artists and general users will give much greater accuracy than its predecessors like the Kinect. The infrared optics and cameras used will detect the heat that comes from the user's hands, aiding their detection better than the depth-based system invented by Microsoft.
The time it takes for the rumored next jump in computer revolution to keep track of all ten fingers simultaneously is less than 16.7 milliseconds, the time it takes for a typical monitor to refresh itself. At its surprising speed of detection, the fingers are also able to be sensed at great precision, at hundredths of a millimeter.
Laptop users can take advantage of the Leap Motion controller's small size. The Hewlett-Packard partnered sensor is smaller than the length of an index finger, at 79 x 30 x 11 millimeter dimensions, its care free size is similar to a typical USB jump drive. Freeing users from the touch pad, future apps could consider utilizing the technology with a tablet PC, to enhance capabilities offered by the combination of screen-conducting touches and the screen-hovering gestures, much like that offered by Samsung Galaxy S4, or one of their future Android tablets Galaxy Tab 4.
Though the current version only supports those with modern Windows and Mac platforms at this time, future Linux versions could bring hackers to create a tablet PC that essentially become a forefather of air gesture enabled Android tablets before Galaxy Tab 4 is released. With the technology, the touch pad of any laptop can also experience a new kind of granular control to enable more gestural inputs than even those formable on a MacBook track pad. The popular background service called BetterTouchTool has added Leap Motion support to allow for such usages.
Like most new devices, many apps need to be remodeled to create brand new experiences, so just how do you download an app for Leap Motion? Leap Motion apps can be found in the Airspace Store.
Deco Sketch is one of the most powerful apps in the system, it allows you to use hand gestures to create fractal and geometric masterpieces that would not be possible on the touch pad, on Android tablets, or even on a tablet PC. The motion controlled art will bring ornamentally patterns on top of images to prep the present for futuristic art forms that was previously impossible.
With AirBeats, a laptop or tablet PC user can funnel their musical talents to emulate drum sets. Air drummers who dig the app can also control its tempo and transport. In addition to useful apps in the realm of art, games like Froggle is able to take the edge off of burdensome a workday.
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