Leap Motion Now Shipping
The idea of controlling a mouse or cursor without actually touching anything with your hands has long since been in the heads of electronics manufactures and entertainment device makers.Β Start with the television.Β The standard television remote was sort of this wondrous invention that allows us to be both lazier and efficient at the same time.Β Fast forwards a few decades and you have your run of the mill Nintendo Wii, capable of using a remote as a virtual joystick.Β For a gamer, the idea of using this is nothing but a novelty, and it quickly becomes clear that this technology is not developed enough to be used seriously. A few companies out there have taken on the task of revamping the idea of a motion controller to make it much more accurate.Β It seems that today, this dream has become a small reality.Β The Leap Motion controller attaches to a dongle using USB can translates physical movement into real time cursor control.Β While it obviously will suffer from the same latency problems that any controller suffers from, one thing it does not suffer from is inaccuracy.Β It is state to be accurate up to a hundredth of a millimeter, which is tiny.Β http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/07/24/leap-motion-now-shipping-captures-gestures-with-accuracy-to-1100th-of-a-millimeter/
