The Leap Motion a relatively new gadget that offers up the chance to for you to interact with your computer like Tony Stark interacts with his Iron Man suit. Only problem is technology isn't that good yet and yeah we don't have an Iron Man suit. Jokes aside lets look at the device itself.Its an infrared scanning platform that allows detection of all of your fingers nifty huh? yeah kinda so to speak it is pretty nifty problem being that its firmware isn't well polished enough for it to be nifty. The device alone has plenty of potential but poor firmware releases and functionality with a 2D surface surface don't particularly make sense. This would in my mind, work really well with a 3D monitor or TV given then fact that it digitizes your fingers into individual nodes of manipulation.
The problem is without haptic feedback its hard to tell whether or not you've exactly hit something or not; not to mention free float targeting of tiny icons is incredibly difficult to perform. Its like a juggling act with one hand.
Couple this with the fact that the Leap Motions only useful app is its interaction with animation software Maya and suddenly it becomes less than important. It's an innovative and a fun idea but execution is not that great. This results in a system that is difficult to use and defeating its original purpose of simplifying a field of interaction.
Without proper support and usefulness I have to give the Leap Motion a disappointing 5/10 I was hoping for a product that would upgrade my interaction with my computer but that most likely won't be happening for a long time.
https://www.leapmotion.com/
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