Stuck on a present for your favorite tech lover? Buying new devices can be a tough decision, but we’re here to help. The Leap Motion Controller lets you interact with your Mac or PC with natural hand movements – just swipe, pinch, and wave in the air to make amazing things happen. Here are four ways that the Leap Motion Controller is the perfect gift to make their Valentine’s Day.
There is a saying among web developers that goes something like this: “If you’re trying to do a thing, there’s a jQuery plugin that will do it.” Sometimes, it’s two. Or three. Although they can’t do everything, there’s no doubt that their module system has saved me hundreds of hours – and hundreds of thousands or more across the web collectively. Drawing from this, we’re excited to release a badass plugin system for LeapJS.
Let’s face it – sometimes a computer just isn’t enough. Whether you’re playing a friendly game or crushing your enemies into dust, there’s nothing like pitting your wits and skills against another gamer. From shooting down enemy pilots and smashing orcs with online multiplayer, to playing competitive arcade, pub, and puzzle games at home, here are 11 Airspace games that you can play with your friends and family.
When a volcano erupts, a large, sunken crater called a Caldera is left in its wake. They are desolate and otherworldly voids, seemingly stolen from a post-apocalyptic future where – left with a blank canvas – we are suddenly faced with the challenge of reconstructing our environment completely from the ground up. But if we give ourselves the reins of Leap Motion technology, the power to reimagine our world is right in our grasp.
This concept of rebuilding after a great collapse inspired a team of digital media and motion graphics professionals enrolled at Stockholm’s Hyper Island school for digital enterprise in their recent project using Leap Motion. Equipped with our Controller, the students sought to create an experience that would challenge the current perception of what technology is capable of – then push it even further.
At DecidoKompetensor, which is based in Malmö Sweden and specializes in ERP systems, we have seen that mobility is an increasingly big factor for success among our customers. We’ve enabled users of our ERP systems to perform tasks from their smartphones and tablets, and we’ve also built applications controlled by interfaces such as the Leap Motion Controller.
Our first app using the Leap Motion Controller is a visualizer that makes data available and browsable to workers in a warehouse. The app presents data graphically in charts and illustrations that are displayed on large TV monitors placed near the ceiling in the warehouse. The app is controlled by gestures, enabling users to interact with it from a distance.
Arvind Gupta is the founder of the LEAP AXLR8R and partner at SOSventures.
Three months to make our world interactive… ready, set, GO!
When we first announced the LEAP AXLR8R, we had no idea what concepts the community of developers, designers and founders would come up with. Far exceeding our expectations, we were floored with visions of how the Leap Motion Controller could change how we interact with the everyday world. Today, we’re excited to tell you about the 10 teams who are turning those dreams into reality over the next 13 weeks.
Modern computer interaction is stuck behind a screen. But people won’t stay bound to these formats, and technology shouldn’t be limited to point-and-click interfaces. If the next generation navigates and creates content through the exact same methods we use today, we’ve failed as technologists.
When we joined artists and coders at Google San Francisco last week to talk about the future of the web, the consensus was clear: it’s time to truly unleash our creativity. Beneath our browsers is a robust engine waiting to break free. It’s more than a place to consume media and speedread viral headlines – it’s a platform to heighten our senses and challenge our minds.
Imagine being able to reach out and tweak virtual strings with your hands to create massive waves of light and sound. Last year, my colleague Alejandro Franco and I brought that idea into reality at Mexico City’s Digital Cultural Center with Resortes – an interactive installation manipulated in real-time through the hand gestures of participants.
In this installation, Newton’s laws of motion, which we find in our day-to-day lives, are simulated to recreate various elastic strings from a set of particles or nodes. The strings act independently from each other, and are triggered either by the hand gestures of each participant or by real-time audio analysis.
