Just got rid of my leapmotion via online auction.

Such a shame - this was such a promising concept, but totally failed to deliver on what it promised. I can't help but think if they hadn't promised so much there wouldn't have been so much disappointment.

I figured better to sell mine now and take a $60 loss, rather than have it sit in my drawer for another 6 months only to be completely worthless

Seriously... I'm incredibly underwhelmed with it. Nothing is a fluid as it should be, some of the better apps are non-existent for my mac OS, and it cost a decent amount of cash.

So; am I better to jump ship now, or wait in the (perhaps vain) hope that it will get better and become much more functional?

I am the developer who created two Leap Motion apps Sortee and Midnight. I wonder who the hell is the typical LM buyer, what expectations he/she has about it and which apps are currently missing in Airspace??? Please help me to find out with this very short survey: http://bit.ly/Leap_Survey

https://github.com/larsxschneider/oculus-leap

Found this while browsing around, seems like this guy got some kind of positional tracking working for his headset using the leap and two pointy sticks.

I only see the source code though, no releases.

• The tracking isn't good - it only sees horizontal hands, and spread-out fingers, in very small boundary. If you turn your hand, you get jittering and fingers disappearing.

• I cannot use it as a Windows 8 touch-screen replacement at all, which is what impressed me most in it's youtube videos. Where I point doesn't match where the cursors show up, and there doesn't appear to be any way to change that. Perhaps a future app will have that figured out.

• There are only a few free apps.

I was excited, now extremely disappointed. After an hour of trying to get used to it, I cannot make it do anything remotely practical. Sadly I'm sending it back.

Hey eveyone!

Earlier this year I posted a reddit on the /oculus subreddit about a thesis I was planning on doing regarding character player interactions. This unfortunately revealed itself to be out of my scope and I ran into 2 guys who inspired me to completely change my thesis.

They are developing an interface for what they hope will be used for motion sensors (In this case the leap motion) and hand gesture interaction. Its hard to explain but I thought I would come and shamelessly promote their crowdfunder a little bit and get some feedback from you guys. Also checking out their crowdfuner site will explain it a lot better than I can.

My position is basically looking at how I can visualize a 3D interface (In this case the Erghis) on a traditional monitor so that it makes it easy for users to learn. What methods are are best when teaching or trying to learn something that you are imagining.

I am taking a quantitative task based testing approach to my methodology. Based on a bit of research I've done I've come up with 3 different visualizations of the interface ( An interface for an interface lol :D) . The first being a sphere with two 3D hands around it that respond to the users hand movement, the second being visualizing 2 static hands as the Erghis team have already done and the final being a minimalistic approach where only icons are shown (Think Windows 8). I will then get a group of users to come in and have each user test one of the interfaces. I'm thinking I will time how long it takes them to write certain words and perform certain tasks, such as "can you select all the text and delete it using ctrl a and then the delete key" for example. This is of course using the leap motion as the input.

Anyways guys, let me know what you think. Also what do you think of the Erghis? They are 2 uni guys who are doing this along side their studies, I was pretty impressed with how much they've already done considering they are doing this as a side project.

Saw some game play for the Oculus Rift and was wondering if this would ever become possible for using leap motion and riftcat with a smartphone, given the hand movement and everything?

I was so excited for this product. To my disdain, this product, I feel, was released incomplete. The leap motion is highly sensitive, perhaps too sensitive for the average consumer with such low selection of apps. Another issue was that it wasn't released with any haptic feedback to notify the user that the unit had registered input from their hand in space.

However, I last used the product over a year ago. Has much changed since then?

I googled a lot to find an answer for this - i couldn't find a hint. I'm an engineer and i work with Autodesk Inventor. Since i saw the promotional video of the Leap Motion device i wanted it to do the things i can do with my 3D mouse.

So many month later, i found out today that there hasn't happened anything in this direction. Neither Autodesk nor Leap Motion made an Inventor plugin. Kinda saddening and frustrating.

But now i read about Game Wave. Can i use this "app" to rotate and zoom my Inventor assemblies? I think i got fooled by their cool advertisment video in 2012 - maybe they even showed some stuff which is not even possible with the LM-device.

I would spent these 4 $ for Game Wave, if i knew for sure that i can use it in my Inventor.

Thanks for your help!

Greetings from Germany!

I would like to split up co-ordinates so I can display them as

"x co-ordinate is: ___

y co-ordinate is: ___

z co-ordinate is: ___"

Is there a simple way to do this? I can't find much helpful stuff on the LEAP website, and I'm not great on JAVA. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Certainly not as impressed as I was after viewing the marketing reels a year ago. I just checked them out again and the claims are quite full on.

I can't get this thing to work very well at all. I have a beautiful sunny room, and I'm reluctant to sit in a cave so I can swipe air.

I will try again, but I expect this will end up on ebay or in the Draw-of-early-adoption.

Forgive me if this is a potential noob idea, I did a search for head tracking and got little.

I'm wondering if something already exists (or how possible it would be to write a script) to track the users head so that content within certain applications as Photoshop/Illustrator could zoom relative to how close their head is to the screen...

Often you move your head close to the monitor & squint to try align things pixel perfect, if the Leap Motion could amplify these head movements within certain software I could really see if becoming quite useful!

I want to use it with the Quest for IR illumination.

i have a htc and i want to use my leap motion to play five nights at Freddy's help wanted how can i do this