Technology startup Leap Motion has been the talk of the town ever since they revealed their game changing product. The company has released a promotional video on YouTube that has gotten 7 million views from people itching to get their hands on the company’s device. So what exactly has Leap Motion created that so many people are clamoring to buy? It is basically a small lighter sized device that can convert your computer or laptop into a 3D interface. The product that allows users to give the computer input without touching the keyboard or screen.
All the user does is use hand gestures to control what actions take place on the screen. The powerful device is very accurate and has no latency giving the entire experience a very smooth and polished feel. Leap Motion states that its product is 200 times more accurate than any other device currently on the market. They also claim that the device can track a user’s finger movement to 1/100th of a millimeter.
The company expects to have the first version of its device out by the beginning of 2013 and is pricing it at $69.99. This is an incredible price for a product that has many admirers. Wired stated that the Leap Motion device was “the best gesture-control system we’ve ever tested” while The Verge claimed it was “the next big thing in computing.”
Andy Miller, Leap Motion’s president and COO, has said the company already has a large number of orders. Miller is a former Apple executive and his team is comprised of some other big player from Apple. Michael Buckwald is the founder and CEO while former Nasa engineer David Holz serves as CTO.
Miller says that, “The consumer is side a way of getting it out there, but the bigger business might be licensing deals. We have been contacted by thousands of businesses that want to use this.” He continues by saying that, “We’ve talked about seatback screens on planes,” he says. “Climate control systems. Set-top boxes and TVs and remote controls. Tablets. MRIs.”
With range of application being endless, including major corporations like McDonalds using to led food servers interact with screens without touching them, Miller says that, “This is a big thing that really could change the way we interact with devices.”
Leap Motion has also developed an SDK for its product sp that developers can write apps for their system. The startup has gotten 40,000 applications from developers and the Leap Motion has been sent to 10,000 developers for free. The future looks bright for the fledgling company as it prepares to launch in 2013.
Source: ReadWrite
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