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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Seems like vaporware at this point. Pre-orders are “estimated” to ship in December or January (7-8 months from now). The video is created for PR (looks like most of it is faked). There are no technical details on the web site – just statements about how revolutionary it is, and nonsense statements like the one calling it “two hundred times more accurate than any product currently on the market.” The Developers link on their web site doesn’t work (at least yesterday and right now).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>In one story, here’s what the reporter saw: “In a demo, Holz pointed at a laptop screen and traced the word “hello” in the air with his index finger while keeping his hand still and making only minimal movements with his finger. His gestures were processed and displayed simultaneously on the computer screen.” It’s a long way from that to the stuff shown in the PR video.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Call</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> me a skeptic, but I think the hype is much more advanced than the technology here. (I’ll be happy to be shown otherwise in due time.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Matthew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ilab-users-bounces@lists.cs.ucsb.edu [mailto:ilab-users-bounces@lists.cs.ucsb.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Basak Alper<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:00 AM<br><b>To:</b> 4EyesLab<br><b>Subject:</b> [4eyes] "Leap" Forward<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anybody has seen this?<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA&feature=youtube_gdata_player</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><img border=0 width=288 height=481 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/qdPpoBLPno1Gy3usYOG4s9mavG3pP6VWO2FrmIIhUqXGgQxpdPOj3dCOwiWJm27iZpKJZvzdhbCdECnV19Yl5XF1dAU1qfHc_g=s288" alt=0leapmotion.jpg><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>This morning, a San-Francisco-based company called <a href="http://leapmotion.com/" target="_blank">Leap Motion</a> released the demo video for their eponymous gesture control interface, which appears to be shockingly accurate: <o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>It's more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen.... This isn't a game system that roughly maps your hand movements. The Leap technology is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market -- at any price point. Just about the size of a flash drive, the Leap can distinguish your individual fingers and track your movements down to a 1/100th of a millimeter.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>The system can distinguish thumbs from figures and tell when you're holding a pencil in your hand. Check it out:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>The drawing app looks freaking awesome, and imagine being able to do CAD with your bare hands. That would take some clever tool/interface design on the part of the software developers, but if the Leap is really as easy to use as the manufacturers claim—"Plug the LEAP into a USB port. Load the Leap Motion software. Do a quick wave to calibrate. That's it"—you can be assured said developers will get on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Outside of personal computing, I'd love to see the Leap applied to ATMs, so I never had to touch those filthy, smudged and sneezed-upon screens again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>The Leap is <a href="http://live.leapmotion.com/pre-order-the-leap/" target="_blank">currently available for pre-order</a> at $69.99 a pop.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Translist mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Translist@mat.ucsb.edu">Translist@mat.ucsb.edu</a><br><a href="http://lists.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/translist" target="_blank">http://lists.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/translist</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>