Sign the Air with New Hyper-Accurate Motion Control

[skywolfblue]

Now THIS is what kinect should have been! (At least if this works as advertised)

I am looking forward to this /crossfingers and hope and pray that it's good.

 

[justnotcricket]

So, do your hands have to be over the little device in front of the screen? I'm just wondering how it would work from a gaming perspective (since the comparison in the article was with the kinect). It looks really amazing! Never mind engineers and digital clay - think of the possibilities for digital sculptors...

 

[loa]

Ah, now we might get an actually accurate simulator of drawing with charcoal.
Now if only there was physical feedback...

Meanwhile at microsoft... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSk5DhxQHLo]

 

[Folji]

For 70 dollars? Are they for real?

My first thought is how well this would work with a pencil in direct contact with a screen and whether the activity on screen would be accurately where the pencil is at. If yes, then I'm smelling the cheapest alternative to a Cintiq ever.

Most likely void of pressure sensitivity, but damn. $70 to potentially turn a screen into a graphic tablet sounds like a wet dream.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

Must be a scam. $70? Really?

 

[Robert Ewing]

Does sound too good to be true.

And to be even more pessimistic, this will only encourage developers to make more motion sensor games. Fuck... sake... Why...

 

[spartan231490]

I'll believe it when I see it. And not in a demonstration video, when every single thing has been controlled to provide the best possible result, but in a house. Further, I kinda hope that if it is that accurate, it picks up flies that fly near you, ruining your game.

 

[Baldr]

For 70 dollars? Are they for real?

My first thought is how well this would work with a pencil in direct contact with a screen and whether the activity on screen would be accurately where the pencil is at. If yes, then I'm smelling the cheapest alternative to a Cintiq ever.

Most likely void of pressure sensitivity, but damn. $70 to potentially turn a screen into a graphic tablet sounds like a wet dream.

Pressure sensitivity is hallmark of (good)Wacom tablets, that why they are much more expensive than cheap tablets/monitors.

I applied for one of the developer kits for my studio. I'm not having much hope on ever receiving one, I don't doubt it can do what it says(I've seen things in the independent showcase at E3 that would blow your mind, but never make it to market for various reasons), these things just never tend to materialize. It could be quite easy that Microsoft just up and buys it out(or Sony/Nintendo, but with their piling loses that a long shot.)

 

[devilmore]

The fact that the video has been removed doesn't seem encouraging to me.

 

[launchpadmcqwak]

i love living in the future...

 

[Kahani]

The bullet points of what the Leap is capable of are encouraging, and herald a new age of PC control:

Navigating an operating system or browsing Web pages with the flick of a finger
Finger-pinching to zoom in on maps
Letting engineers interact with a 3D model of clay
Precision drawing in either two- or three-dimensions
Manipulating complex 3D data visualizations
Playing games, including those that require very "fast-twitch" control
Signing digital documents by writing in air

I think this is really the important point. Look at that list. How many of those things are games? Not many. Kinect can actually do some pretty awesome things, but since development and marketing has been almost exclusively focussed on playing games on an outdated dedicated gaming platform, it's not exactly easy to do them. An open system properly released for PCs at a price no more than other peripherals has a real chance to be actually useful.

 

[Stublore]

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Smeg!!