Items tagged with motion-control
Leap Motion, a company that makes motion control technology, starting gaining attention earlier this year when it scored a couple of deals with manufacturers and Best Buy as well as making its own Leap Motion Controller and opening a beta program for app developers. The fruits of those labors begin the harvest today, as Leap Motion opens up its Airspace app store on the heels of shipping out preordered Leap Motion controllers last week. There are 75 apps in the store for today’s launch, and the hundreds of thousands of Leap Motion users will be able to download and launch them right away (or that is, when they receive their controllers in the mail). There are both paid and free apps, and...
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Forget touch input, with everything it offers and how it can change the way people interact with their computers; ASUS is looking to leap ahead of touch input by bundling motion control technology from Leap Motion with some high end laptops and all-in-one desktops yet this year. Leap Motion claims that its technology can track movements of all ten fingers down to 1/100th millimeter in a 150-degree area with no visible lag, at 290 FPS. Currently, Leap Motion offers a $70 controller (for preorder) about the size of a man’s thumb that delivers the motion control capabilities, and from the language of the press release, it sounds as though ASUS will simply be throwing a controller in with some...
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