Touch screen revolutionized mobile processing and the way consumers used smartphones and tablets. Leap Motion wants to take that revolution further by offering users the ability to use gestures to control and interact with their computers. The startup has been making waves in Silicon Valley even though they have no official release date for their product right now. The latest news from Leap Motion is that the firms highly anticipated gesture control device will be available at Best Buy for purchase. This is a major deal for the small company and Leap Motion is expecting to sell their device for $70 at Best Buy’s stores by the spring of this year. Best Buy will start taking pre-orders on its website by February 2013.
Consumers that are impatient can also pre-order the gesture controller on Leap’s website right away.
Andy Miller,Leap Motion President and chief operating officer, stated that “Finding a major retail partner for our North American launch was a critical component to our strategy, and Best Buy was the obvious choice,”
Leap Motions product is quitely small and can easily fit in the palm of a users hand. It is connected to a laptop or PC and placed in front of the computer. Offering Kinect-like interactivity the device can track up to 10 fingers or two hands. The device is super sensitive and can be quite accurate and let the user interact with the computer with out having to touch the screen or keyboard. The creators claim that it has the ability to track a user’s fingers up to 290 frames per second.
The Best Buy deal is not the only big break for Leap Motion. In December of last year the startup anounced that it had made a deal with computer manufacturer Asus to provide the Leap Controller with high end Asus products. They also made public a $30 million investment from VC’s and other funders. With $44 million in total funding the company is set to become the next big thing.
Source: Venture Beat
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