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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by skore on Thursday March 28, 2013 @06:10AM (#5454026)
You know what? A year ago, I would have shared the exact same scepticism.

Now, I have an infant daughter who likes nothing more than being carried around, which has exponentially increased the number of activities I do with one hand, standing up.

Being able to have a soundless controller that you don't need to pick up or fiddle around with in a way that disturbs a tiny human sleeping on your other arm sounds like absolute perfection.

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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by tezza on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:54AM (#5454287)
As the owner of a sizable 2.5 y/o I agree.

Also by the time you cary your Bundles of Love around day-to-day, your arm strength for this type of HCI goes up substantially.

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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by 3327 on Thursday March 28, 2013 @09:39AM (#5454670)
I just went to the leap dev meetup in nyc, (i also dev for leap). My feeling is that its a great UI instrument, for UI focused applications. What do i mean by that? Well, think of museums, aquariums, jobs such as architecture, perhaps autocad. Jobs/tasks where it would be way more fun and efficient to do the action with your hands.
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