Re:Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices
by acgourley on Monday May 21, 2012 @03:41PM
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I suspect it's an illusion and that does not represent their true 3d point cloud. It's probably a skinned 3d mesh of a hand which is then moving in sync with the detected hand.
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Re:Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices
by Schwolop on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @01:45AM
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Their webpage suggests they can handle multiple devices connected to the one PC, so I was wondering whether they had another sensor out of shot above the scene pointing downwards.
Actually - scrap that. A better hunch is that it's not structured light at all, but actually an electric field sensor. See this Quora answer (disclaimer, by someone who "knows shit all about this"): http://www.quora.com/Leap-Motion/What-is-the-technology-behi...