8pen + Leap Motion

#1

Post by olegam2 » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 12:52 PM UTC

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#2

Post by Dirlewanger » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 1:06 PM UTC

This is going nowhere. It looks like there's too much overhead to get anywhere near as proficient as the guy in the video.

Leap Motion in general is awesome technology, but it's going to remain grounded without a practical application.

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#3

Post by fridek » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 1:06 PM UTC

Looks significantly slower and RSI must be terrible. I would prefer to draw shapes on flat surface with my wrists resting.

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#4

Post by linux_devil » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 1:08 PM UTC

I can write on keyboard , why should I wave my fingers? Need more practical application. It's really fast .

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#5

Post by edgeman27 » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 1:08 PM UTC

I think the promotional video should show something a little more useful than air-writing. One could have typed (or spoken) the same text in a fraction of the time. How about drawing or painting?

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#6

Post by koalaman » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 1:08 PM UTC

How is writing 10 wpm by waving your finger in the air a good thing?

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#7

Post by oulipo » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 1:10 PM UTC

This would be a neat way to search for television programs from the couch, or to write notes during surgery without having to remove gloves, or to search for recipes with the hands full of flour :)

There are definitely many applications for that technology!

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#8

Post by CRshape » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 1:12 PM UTC

AWESOME!

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#9

Post by rabu81 » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 1:15 PM UTC

Pure awesomeness!

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#10

Post by tjr » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 1:16 PM UTC

koalaman wrote: post #6

How is writing 10 wpm by waving your finger in the air a good thing?

I type much slower on my phone than on a keyboard, but it's clearly still useful.

I have a music recording studio set up at home. I can imagine some scenarios where it might be easier for me to wave my hand for some brief computer interaction than to reposition myself for regular keyboard-typing and mouse-moving.

But, shrug, in any event, I think it's neat to see LeapMotion technology being brought to more applications. Maybe some of them will prove silly, but at least people are trying to figure out how to use it, which is more than I can say for myself thus far...