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Geek Culture / Leap Motion

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 23rd Jun 2013 22:36
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This looks interesting, and only $79.00

https://www.leapmotion.com/

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 23rd Jun 2013 22:40
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Now I just need to pray for a game that uses hand gestures to cast magic spells...
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Sergey K
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Posted: 23rd Jun 2013 22:45
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wow thats a whole new way to look at your computer games!
i like it!

can any1 order it and tell me hows that goes before i buy it too? xD

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Benjamin
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Posted: 23rd Jun 2013 22:51
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Soooo... like Kinect but far more accurate? Sounds cool.

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The Zoq2
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Posted: 23rd Jun 2013 23:05
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It looks pretty cool, and apart from most of this stuff it looks pretty exciting. Using your hands to hack a door in a game would be realy awesome. It's probably pretty tiering to use for a long time though, but for short sequenses in a game, im sure it will be perfect
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BMG
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Posted: 23rd Jun 2013 23:32
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Saw this about a year ago, thought it looked too good to be true in some ways, should've got it at the lower price!

New video! http://youtu.be/BdcITzLBjxU

And a blog, full of game-related things: http://gradebmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
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Quik
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Posted: 23rd Jun 2013 23:34
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only problem is... how far away can you be?=



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BiggAdd
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Posted: 24th Jun 2013 00:21
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Quote: "can any1 order it and tell me hows that goes before i buy it too? xD
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I've had one pre-ordered since forever, but when they finally ship it I'll let you know!

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mr Handy
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Posted: 24th Jun 2013 01:19
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Video is awesome! Will it be compatible with PC games?

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Quik
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Posted: 24th Jun 2013 01:28 Edited at: 24th Jun 2013 01:30
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EDIT: NVM

handy: Hopefully ^^

edit: ... so we got this, oculus rift and that board thingie to walk upon

virtual reality, here I come!



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Phaelax
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Posted: 24th Jun 2013 04:35
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That looks incredibly accurate, and it's so tiny! $80 sounds very reasonable to me. If I could spare the cash right now I'd totally get one.

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mr Handy
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Posted: 24th Jun 2013 14:55
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Now for me that thing + OR = buy no console, only PC. That is too overweighting all possible console exclusives.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 25th Jun 2013 11:18
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A couple of videos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFYi6rtpmM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2HFcfOwDtI

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TheComet
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Posted: 28th Jul 2013 14:08
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Watch the video too.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/07/hands-on-with-the-leap-motion-controller-cool-but-frustrating-as-hell/

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Quik
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Posted: 28th Jul 2013 17:34
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So I am not going to buy this, because I live in sweden, i'll have to pay about 30€ extra in VAT and shipping



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ShellfishGames
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Mine arrived a few days ago. I'll let you know what I think once I get around installing and actually testing it. So far it looks like a nice (way too expensive) toy, but I'm still hoping it will be useful for things such as drawing and modeling..

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Quik
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Posted: 28th Jul 2013 23:30
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sculpting could be nice, if done nice.. at any rate - it's something I can pay for just to have for surfing the net xD but 80€ seems a bit... nah



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Posted: 29th Jul 2013 13:50
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@ShellfishGames - Please do as I'm very interested in getting one.

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 30th Jul 2013 22:07
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I've read reviews saying the tech is too finicky to really reply a mouse, and can be straight-up frustrating. Shame, I really wanted the Minority Report experience, but apparently it just doesn't deliver. :/
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Quik
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Posted: 30th Jul 2013 22:38
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and on "Sourcefed" the video showed it to be really good..
hm... might just wait a bit - see if they improve upon it - I do sincerely like the idea ^^



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NIlooc223
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This looks awesome. I think it would be worth the money and I would pre-order if I had the money. I think it could change gaming and open a world for new types of games. Along with the Rift thingy I forget its name. The gaming VR thing. I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about. Anyways its neat to see all this new cool tech.
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ShellfishGames
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Posted: 7th Aug 2013 18:20
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Quote: "@ShellfishGames - Please do as I'm very interested in getting one."


I finally got around installing it. Unfortunately I couldn't really test it though, as it doesn't run on XP/Vista and I haven't got access to a Win7/8 PC right now. Still I was able to check out the debugging visualization tool that displays the Leap's representation of my hands. It seems very accurate, fast and mostly stable. But the space where it accurately detects movement seems to vary a bit for some reason, and every time I moved my hands out of this space, nothing was detected for the next ~2 seconds, which is kind of strange. However, that is probably a problem of the debugging software and not of the Leap Motion.
Anyway - that's really all I can tell you right now. Hopefully I'll be able to properly test it on another machine within the next days.

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LeftFoot
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Posted: 12th Aug 2013 07:28
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I've been reading reports about Leap Motion not being as accurate as people had hoped.

What I would rather want for the VR experience (Oculus Rift + Virtuix Omni) are VR gloves. Here is one in development:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mN1t7c66UE

Obviously it's a prototype and the consumer design would be a lot cleaner and even slim-fit. It really would be nice to be able to accurately track your hand/finger motions for things such as spell-casting in VR games.
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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 12th Aug 2013 20:58
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A spell casting game would be a dream for me. Imagine having things like telekinetic grabs with a slightly-closed fist, an open palm projecting a shield, or focusing your fingers together to lance beams of light. Two hands would make the affair pretty challenging, and ridiculously enjoyable...I'd never take the headset off!
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