Leap Motion Goes Mobile

Re:Leap Motion Goes Mobile by harperlee on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:29PM (#13110390)

So my brother gifted me a Leap Motion last year. I tried it for some time but it is not really very useful, and tracking is not that great.

It seems that the new version of the software, Orion (https://developer.leapmotion.com/get-started), made things better. But it has been in beta, and Windows-only, since at least last February... and the list of "known issues" doesn't seem to shorten over the months.

The gadget is now again in its box, where it has been for some time now. It's sad to see that they pivoted into VR based interaction, completely abandoned their current users in the process, and are now only working on the new VR version.

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Re:Leap Motion Goes Mobile by ENGNR on Monday December 05, 2016 @06:33PM (#13110907)

I used Orion inside an Oculus and it was reeeaally pretty cool to have hands in there with full finger tracking.

Eg conjuring cubes from finger tips and bouncing them away in the demo. I can see it being a better UI for many games / apps than the controllers

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Re:Leap Motion Goes Mobile by leapmotion_alex on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:05PM (#13116182)

The known issues don't entirely disappear, but their relative impact does shrink. And Orion is largely retro-compatible with desktop mode.

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Re:Leap Motion Goes Mobile by harperlee on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @02:40PM (#13117618)

...but I have a Mac, and thus I'm stuck with the pre-orion software.

On the other hand, the "known issues" section is Orion-specific, not a previous version list that Orion improves upon.

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