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Their marketing worked on me. I pre-ordered one. Like many, I suspect, I ordered mine because it looked like a cool toy, not because I thought it filled a need.
by unfletch 13y ago
Their marketing worked on me. I pre-ordered one. Like many, I suspect, I ordered mine because it looked like a cool toy, not because I thought it filled a need.
I've only played with it for an hour or so in total, but so far I'm returning it. Maybe it's a training issue (on my part; the device doesn't learn, as far as I can tell), but it just doesn't work very well for me.
The demo apps suggest a severe lack of precision when I'm using it, and complain that the room is too bright. Coincidentally, it's a stormy, overcast day, and my office lamp burned out this morning. This is as dark as it'll ever be in here during the day.
I'll definitely give it some more time (you have 30 days from when it ships to return it), but I'm not that interested in learning how to move my hands in a Leap-specific way, or in permanently darkening my office.
- vanderZwan 13y ago> The demo apps [...] complain that the room is too bright. Coincidentally, it's a stormy, overcast day, and my office lamp burned out this morning. This is as dark as it'll ever be in here during the day. Could it be that it's aimed too much towards the screen? I mean, that's the most obvious remaining light source.
- unfletch 13y agoCould be, it is in front of the monitor, but it's flat on my desk in more or less the same place shown in most of their demo videos.
- nitrogen 13y agoI wonder if your monitor's backlight puts out an inordinate amount of infrared light. I've noticed interference with IR remote control reception when one of my LCD monitor's backlights is turned down close to minimum brightness; I'm assuming that the PWM dimmer frequency (or one of its harmonics) is making it through the filter used by the IR receiver.
- asafira 13y agoI actually fall into a similar category. I fell for their advertising, too (a man can dream...), but it's definitely clear to me that this really is a toy and not really practical for much. Definitely not practical for most (all?) of their apps they currently have available for free. It's still fun to use, but there is no way this will find itself in any productive person's everyday workflow in its current state. We'll see how the Myo turns out... On the bright side (no pun intended), I actually didn't have any lighting issues though, regardless of how dim the room was. Maybe you just have a defective unit? Giving them a call might be worth a shot...