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I was one of the people who funded Leap otion on Kickstarter. I had been wowed by the potential of the product. I put my money down and waited in eager anticipation. I loved the idea of an almost magical way of interacting. I dreamt of the way it might, might, help my daughter with disabilities interact with computers. She has mastered the iPad - the biggest advances in computing for those with special needs- and I hoped that this might provide a new way for her to use technology.
I have been using Leap Motion for over two weeks now. The best two words to sum up my experiences are, disappointed and tiring. High expectations are always hard to deliver on, but in the case of Leap Motion its biggest problem is not to do with the technology or the hardware. Granted there are only a limited number of useful applications in the Airspace store. The ones that work best, to my mind are the simple games where the accuracy of the device is not as important as the gestural interaction. When you want to really interact with your computer, when you try and use Leap Motion as a replacement for the mouse it falls down. The problem is the lack of touch. Using the device to gesture to move things around or change views is fine but if you want to select, or attempt to move items with fine control, the lack of haptic feedback is a real problem.
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/960/poster/2013/02/1671983-poster-1280-leap-motion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://www.fastcodesign.com/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/960/poster/2013/02/1671983-poster-1280-leap-motion.jpg" border="0" height="180" width="320"></a></div> <br> I was one of the people who funded Leap otion on Kickstarter. I had been wowed by the potential of the product. I put my money down and waited in eager anticipation. I loved the idea of an almost magical way of interacting. I dreamt of the way it might, might, help my daughter with disabilities interact with computers. She has mastered the iPad - the biggest advances in computing for those with special needs- and I hoped that this might provide a new way for her to use technology.<br> <br> I have been using Leap Motion for over two weeks now. The best two words to sum up my experiences are, disappointed and tiring. High expectations are always hard to deliver on, but in the case of Leap Motion its biggest problem is not to do with the technology or the hardware. Granted there are only a limited number of useful applications in the Airspace store. The ones that work best, to my mind are the simple games where the accuracy of the device is not as important as the gestural interaction. When you want to really interact with your computer, when you try and use Leap Motion as a replacement for the mouse it falls down. The problem is the lack of touch. Using the device to gesture to move things around or change views is fine but if you want to select, or attempt to move items with fine control, the lack of haptic feedback is a real problem. |
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