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Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices

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Re: Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices

#181

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…

Language is a powerful way to interact with systems. With the mouse, we got first a single primitive - point and click. That vocabulary expanded to drag, but still that's about it. With touch interfaces, we got swipe and pinch thrown in. The kinect expanded that with body gestures. Following that trend, it looks like leap vastly expands our visual interaction vocabulary, or at least has the potential to do that. Considering all the things human hands have made in history, it would indeed be a shame if our computers thought of us as one fingered two dimensional entities!

Re: Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices

#182

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…

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Re: Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices

#185

Let's have a constructive comment thread. Instead conveying love or hate for it, how about listing the cases it's good and bad for. good * Fruit Ninja - made for single finger input, short gameplay * Pinching and zooming maps - good because it's usually a short activity * CAD camera interactions - good for periodic strange rotation needs or showing a client that doesn't understand the normal movement hotkeys * Period…

> Periodic writing with pencil tool Very very inconvenient. Writing on air is completely different and considerably more tricky that writing on paper. Physically more demanding too. It's one of those things that sound nice in theory, but not really practical.

It hasn't been demoed but if you put the device on its side it allows you to write on the table (or paper) with the same result.

Re: Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices

#186

The cynic in me thinks: - I have to see it before I believe it. - If this works as advertised, this company will never ship the product. They will be bought within months for a huge sum of money, even if they do not want to be bought. Reason for that is: - Litigation, litigation! They will need deep pockets to defend themselves against patent claims.

Do you seriously think they haven't got that covered?

Re: Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices

#187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would "a more useful critique" be looking at pro-LEAP applications? Is it because this what you want to hear? LEAP is a bad idea, not bad due to software, bad due to the constraints of human beings. You're literally arguing a logical fallacy by the way: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Negative_proof

You don't understand my point. I was picking at how you claimed that X was bad because it can't be used for applications designed for Y. I also doubt your understanding of "negative proof"... But that's off-topic

I addressed your point directly.
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