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I'm not sure I follow. Are you considering that you do can use the leap while resting your arm right? The technology doesn't stop functioning out of the blue be

I'm not sure I follow. Are you considering that you do can use the leap while resting your arm right? The technology doesn't stop functioning out of the blue because it just noticed you're not getting tired enough. If your laptop webcam was a leap sensor, you'd be able to use it to control a virtual keyboard/mouse while resting your arm in pretty much anything around you. You can use your work table as a keyboard. Or if you're lying down, use your belly. Tho I'm sure that future leap-ready devices will have it's own built in solution (like a tablet case specially designed to fold forward to serve as support for using your hands to type or something). There's nothing inherit to the technology that implies you must move your hands more or hold them in the air any more than what you already do with current input devices. People only do so in the demos to show off the technology. I mean, there's a lot of hard and interesting problems created by the leap that will be fun to try and solve. But a tired arm seems so simple to solve that it's even boring. Unless I'm missing something and you're talking about something else entirely?

pbreit 14y ago
You seem to have missed the main point: "not going to replace actually touching the thing I want to touch on the screen". That direct manipulation is unlikely to go away. While the Leap will be able to support such, touch is unlikely to go away. But I realize we are in the midst of overly sensational headlines.
- akosner 14y ago
  I was just responding to the fact that David Holz referred to existing touch apps as "legacy" apps. It does have a charge to it which is why I used it in the headline. What I would think all the hackers would like about the Leap is that it progressively enhances on top of existing touch (and GUI) UIs. It will replace those things to the extent that it's useful to people, but it doesn't seem like it breaks anything downstream of it.

pbreit 14y ago

You seem to have missed the main point: "not going to replace actually touching the thing I want to touch on the screen". That direct manipulation is unlikely to go away. While the Leap will be able to support such, touch is unlikely to go away. But I realize we are in the midst of overly sensational headlines.

akosner 14y ago
I was just responding to the fact that David Holz referred to existing touch apps as "legacy" apps. It does have a charge to it which is why I used it in the headline. What I would think all the hackers would like about the Leap is that it progressively enhances on top of existing touch (and GUI) UIs. It will replace those things to the extent that it's useful to people, but it doesn't seem like it breaks anything downstream of it.