Thank you! I've been trying to find that link / product-name since I posted this. That seems way better, at least for sitting at a desk.
I think the leap is pretty good, but it will have finger occlusion problems. Leap is really good at detecting your fingers while your palm is down and it's really good at detecting a stylus in your hand. As your hand turns, it's really hard for the cameras on the table to detect your fingers. That's probably fine for plenty of applications, so it's going to be a "good" device. It just doesn't solve the same problem digits is trying to solve, which is occlusion free finger detection and hand orientation. That will be important for future VR/AR tech.
I agree MS probably isn't the right company to make this a real product, but perhaps if they don't patent the hell out of every piece, someone else will make it.
I think the leap is pretty good, but it will have finger occlusion problems. Leap is really good at detecting your fingers while your palm is down and it's really good at detecting a stylus in your hand. As your hand turns, it's really hard for the cameras on the table to detect your fingers. That's probably fine for plenty of applications, so it's going to be a "good" device. It just doesn't solve the same problem digits is trying to solve, which is occlusion free finger detection and hand orientation. That will be important for future VR/AR tech.
I agree MS probably isn't the right company to make this a real product, but perhaps if they don't patent the hell out of every piece, someone else will make it.
I think Leap could be integrated into tops of keyboards easily enough--people tend to place the keyboard at the end of their arm-extension, making placement natural on a kb.
I don't see how Digits could be used in a desktop environ, Digits is more game-centric, and I doubt it's the right solution for gaming.
Leap I can think of all sorts of uses, from 3D modelling to making touch possible on a desktop where you don't have to actually touch the screen.
The main thing about leap is that it looks surprisingly precise and it's only $70.
Seriously, that shit costs less than a kinect. I'll be trying one out sooner rather than later, i can promise that. Put that tiny little sensor behind my keyboard and just see how things go. I'm not interested, at all, in its gaming applications, but for quick gesture based desktop situations? Hell yes.
