Just plug it into the USB port, place it in front of the computer and you’ll have 8 cubic feet of virtual, three-dimensional space that you can interact with.
Like Microsoft’s Kinect, the Controller tracks your gestures using LEDs and cameras, but in a vastly more precise way – it tracks the movements of all 10 of your fingers and is accurate up to 1/100th of a millimeter. (This is mostly because the firm had overestimated the number of units they would sell during the all-important holiday season.) Like all new tech endeavours, Leap Motion is going through some growing pains, but this in no way detracts from the fact that Leap Motion technology is altogether impressive and provides a platform that’s versatile enough for millions of possible applications. Now it’s one year out and the latest news tidbit about Leap Motion is that the company has had to lay off ten percent of its employees. It’s all very cutting-edge, which is why there was a great deal of chatter in the tech world when the Leap Motion Controller was launched in 2013. You may have heard of it by now, this little 3-inch controller that, once plugged into your computer, allows you to control apps with the smallest of gestures.
