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Re:Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices by nrp on Monday May 21, 2012 @10:35AM (#4003018)
I suspect infrared time-of-flight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-flight_camera

You can get pretty impressive accuracy and precision at short distances, and the plane of depth points matches what their demo video shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA&feature=playe...

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Re:Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices by jasonwatkinspdx on Monday May 21, 2012 @12:27PM (#4003562)
I've read some other comments claiming that they can cover football stadium sized venues. If that's true, I think that suggests laser illumination.
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