Drawing his inspiration from music, mathematics, and the infinite possibilities of space and nature, Leap Motion experience engineer Isaac Cohen likes to push the limits of the web. At last October’s HTML5 Developers Conference, Isaac showed how we can rethink web design beyond current interfaces and reimagine what the Internet might look like in the future.
Like many people, I love to ride my bicycle to get to work. However, as you can imagine, mornings in Switzerland can get rather chilly, and I needed a way to check the temperature outside – so I bought a little weather station called Netatmo. Around the same time, I discovered some fancy new bulbs from Philips called Hue, which consist of three LEDs that can emit light covering nearly the entire visible spectrum.
What do these two things have to do with each other? Nothing at first, but I started thinking about connecting the two devices – so that the light would indicate the level of outside temperature at the blink of an eye. It worked marvelously, and I started to explore other ways to use the bulb.
Last week, we showed you how easy it is to create a sculpture in the air with Sculpting and get it delivered straight to your mailbox. But what if you could cut out the wait? What if you could walk into a shop with an idea, and come out with an object in your hands?
Eddie Lee experiments with light and sound to build strange and wonderful playgrounds of the mind – from the moonlit river of Kyoto to the synesthetic delights of Lotus. Check out some of Eddie’s creative process in our latest developer spotlight video.
More recently, Eddie joined us on our Twitch channel to talk about his game design philosophy and latest projects:
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It’s time to fully embrace a change in the way we think about technology and how we use it in our day-to-day lives. The gadgets, the APIs, and the common ground for connecting them all together in diverse and incredible ways exist right now. Leap Motion is just one part of rediscovering how we can interact with and utilize technology in this new era of potential.
As a wise philosopher once said, we are living in a material world. While virtual objects are great, there’s something amazing about being able to hold something in your hand – like how an image on your computer can disappear in a flash, but a physical photograph is unique and permanent. Today, we’re going to show you how to bring your Sculpting creations to life with the power of 3D printing, from bits to atoms in five easy steps.
What was your favorite moment of 2013? With the new year in full swing, our latest video highlights the biggest milestones along our journey. On Developer Labs, discover how to develop simultaneously for native and web platforms with Node-Webkit, and look under the hood of Diplopia, a game designed to help people suffering from cross-eye. To subscribe to our developer newsletter and get updates through email, click here.
Can you imagine not being able to see in three dimensions? Like millions of people around the world, I have strabismus or “cross-eye,” which has caused my brain to ignore input from my non-dominant eye. While it was long thought that strabismus could not be treated after a critical threshold of 8-12 years, recent research has shown that manipulating images shown to both eyes can be an effective treatment.
That’s why I started an IndieGoGo campaign for Diplopia, a virtual reality video game that would help strabismus and amblyopia (lazy eye) sufferers. With Diplopia, I use the Oculus Rift to deliver a different image to each eye, in order to to trick the player’s brain into strengthening their weaker one. The game itself is a 3D block-breaking game with a paddle and ball..
TVO’s IdeaShaker Innovation Lab explores emerging technologies that have the potential to disrupt learning. They’re the creators of the free educational app Caterpillar Count, which was originally built with web technologies.
Web apps are great – people on a variety of platforms can access them instantly, there’s no need for users to upgrade to the latest version, and it’s easier to reach casual users who don’t want to install a native application. While the Airspace Store includes links to web apps, for Leap Motion developers who want their apps to be part of the native Airspace Home experience, native apps are the way to go. This leaves web developers in a bit of a dilemma. Should I build Leap Motion apps for the web, or start working a different platform altogether? We chose the third option – build and convert.