Re: [LAU] leap motion sdk open

From: Max <abonnements@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Jul 06 2013 - 19:07:56 EEST

Am 06.07.2013 um 17:54 schrieb Len Ovens <len@email-addr-hidden>:

>
> On Fri, July 5, 2013 10:57 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> FYI, the Leap Motion SDK and Developer portal has been opened up today for
>> anyone to join.
>>
>> https://developer.leapmotion.com
>
> Interesting device. One hopes this does not send all our desktops even
> more into the made for touchscreen kinds of things. Maybe it will instead
> open the small touchscreen devices back up towards full desktop kinds of
> use. (full screen apps annoy me) A tablet could have such a device built
> into it, a small laser device could project a control interface onto any
> surface, keyboard (text or music with multi manuals) a mixer, wave
> editor... of course these things could also be done on the main screen..
> but I am thinking the wrist angle for some common tasks would be better on
> a horizontal surface. A 3D/holographic display is what is needed to
> complete this gadget.
>
> The small tablet/smartphone devices suffer from low screen real estate and
> so buttons must be big to get touch info accurately, This device could
> allow for a much bigger space to be used even on a small screen and
> smaller buttons.
>
> How open is the driver? "SDK for Windows 7 and 8, Mac OSX 10.7 and higher,
> and Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail" sounds like
> not open to me.

maybe you can put you hopes in http://duo3d.com/ which failed its kickstarter but it shows that it's possible to do a leap with of the shelve parts.
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