Leap Motion Is Dead

#1

Post by blockchainman » Fri, May 31, 2019, 5:57 PM UTC

Re: Leap Motion Is Dead

#2

Post by xtagon » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 4:12 AM UTC

Any word on whether the purchasing company will continue to support existing Leap hardware/software at all, for those of us who own one?

Leap Motion is great fun in maker circles.

Re: Leap Motion Is Dead

#3

Post by blockchainman » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 1:44 PM UTC

xtagon wrote: post #2

Any word on whether the purchasing company will continue to support existing Leap hardware/software at all, for those of us who own one? Leap Motion is great fun in maker circles.

http://blog.leapmotion.com/leap-motion-and-ultrahaptics-join...

This is the best Information I could find.

Re: Leap Motion Is Dead

#4

Post by blueboo » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

The tech sucked in real-world conditions

Re: Leap Motion Is Dead

#5

Post by RugnirViking » Sat, Jun 01, 2019, 5:06 PM UTC

blueboo wrote: post #4

The tech sucked in real-world conditions

I agree. For a period a several years ago I was tasked to oversee this in a museum alongside an occulus rift early dev kit and some other tech curiosities. The leap motion almost never worked, and people would usually end up disappointed. The kinect seemed to achieve everything it was trying to do but better and for the whole body.

The occulus rift dev kit comparatively despite being a prototype, stood up amazingly well to the general public, even if I didn't feel it was that impressive, it was awesome to give the first view of VR to so many members of the public.