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There's no perceptible latency in its response to gestures -- I'm very impressed assuming it's not a rigged demo. (In videos I've seen of the Kinect the software responds to a gesture only after a noticeable fraction of a second.)
It's not a rigged demo. (I saw them film it.)
I'm sad the word 'robot' hasn't appeared in this thread yet. Let's correct that. Visual slam is great for medium distances, but pointclouds aren't really that dense and are slow to update. Also the lidar to make the point clouds is stupid expensive. Add one of these guys onto your robot and you've got a really cool set of 'wiskers.' Short range, highly sensitive, super fast update. I'd love to put several of these on…
Believe it when I see it live.
Dev Kits (free) Ship international within 1-3 months. Pre-orders ($70) only ship domestic (for now) around winter. 20,000 dev kits are being made. We want to ensure this tech becomes ubiquitous. We're getting slammed with launch response. But if you guys have questions, we'll try to answer them here shortly. -Chris Community Builder
Any partnerships on the way already?
Already a lot of negativity here... To me this looks amazing and although LEAP seem to be pushing for you to get rid of your mouse/keyboard, personally I think this is probably best as an addition to it. Imagine if you had one of these built into the keyboard. You're typing an email need to add a location switch over to google maps, hands off keyboard as you manipulate it around to get a decent resolution, 'tap' the…
The point is that if the technology works (which is the important question, IMO), then users will adapt and embrace it.
Interfaces like this look cool in movies but your hands aren't 'designed' to be above your heart for an extended period of time. Now if you had something like a drafting table with a touch screen I'd be first in line.
Type type type. Throw that away. Type type. Make that bigger. Type type type type. Run that.
I can't wait.
I’d love to get one of these and play with it. Will the SDK and spec for talking to it be freely available after the initial batch of preorders and free dev kits? As a counterexample, Emoviv gave a TED talk a while ago showing off a headset that lets you control your computer with your mind. When you visit their website you discover that you can only develop with a $500 “developer edition” headset that comes with a s…
Dev Kits ship for free to 20,000 developers in 1-3 months. Pre-orders are for consumers at $70 and ship this winter. The idea is to give all the hackers maximum access to create awesome apps and then deliver a healthy shiny ecosystem to the consumer. Also, we'd like to see a larger shift towards people creating things, so encouraging early adopters to get aboard the coding train is a positive trend. It's a huge new i…
Other people have asked about openness… will there be any kind of control over what programs can use it (i.e. do they need to be approved by you guys to work?)
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It really won't. Have you any idea how tiring waving your arms around like that would be all day? There are so many use cases where it doesn't even work that would require a complete rethink of how anything is presented on in internet. For example how about the HN comments where it's pasted as code and it scrolls horizontally. Target that and scroll it with that system. As soon as you have a single use case where a m…
I'm familiar with the usual "arm-waving sucks" arguments against gesture-based inputs, but I was just wondering -- is there any reason this couldn't just replace the touchpad on laptops, maybe being integrated into the forward edge for a larger field of view? They do claim sub-mm accuracy; maybe applications in the small are realistic. So instead of arm-waving, think of rotating your hand just above the touchpad to r…
I'm sad the word 'robot' hasn't appeared in this thread yet. Let's correct that. Visual slam is great for medium distances, but pointclouds aren't really that dense and are slow to update. Also the lidar to make the point clouds is stupid expensive. Add one of these guys onto your robot and you've got a really cool set of 'wiskers.' Short range, highly sensitive, super fast update. I'd love to put several of these on…
Great point. As far as openness, I'm concerned by this talk of an app store.
Perhaps I'll reconsider at some other time.