The biggest problem I had encountered back then is that there was a packet transmitted with a certain signature in order to turn on the cameras that I could not reverse for the life of me (had something to do with the app version).
Other than that: basically two IR cameras that stream in an interleaved pixel format (2 x 640) x 480 iirc. It was a fun device to use and hack, but the first time I had ran into the brick-wall that is an enclosed format.
> LeapUVC gives you access to the Leap Motion Controller image data through the industry standard UVC (Universal Video Class) interface. This gives you low level controls such as LED brightness, gamma, exposure, gain, resolution, and more.
Furthermore, the RealSense SDK is apparently open source, as opposed to what Ultraleap has, which seems rather closed and/or expensive.
I think my most fundamental complaint was when Leap Motion launched instead of being prescriptive about how it should work they deferred all drivers to app specific functionality when they could have at least had a reference generic driver that had consistent behavior across apps that could then be modified.
The device was a hog on system resources and worked only in super niche areas and I think I am mostly disappointed they didn’t go another route with a more generic input device. I’ve got no indication this device takes a different approach but tbh I don’t have the energy to do the work to check.