3 ms·

Well, as kinect already is capable of tracking your fingers, i am not sure the leap would be very useful. rather a slightly better kinect..

by replax 13y ago

tocomment 13y ago
Actually perhaps the leap could be placed on the front of the Oculus Rift. The only time you'd be doing detailed things with your fingers is when you're looking at them right? So at those time the leap would have a view of your hands. Then the kinnect (I guess one on each wall) would monitor larger movements.
- XorNot 13y ago
  The Leap doesn't have the range to do this. My brother has one and it's striking how narrow the field of view is.
VLM 13y ago
"kinect already is capable of tracking your fingers" I will nitpick the word selection that "capable" is nearly useless in a user interface. It needs to be nearly 100% reliable or its useless. 99% of my interaction with Kinect is my daughter crying that she can't navigate menus in her dance games and is all frustrated, followed by me being all frustrated and swearing about how if only I could bypass this POS and use the buttons on the controller I would be done twenty seconds ago and I hate Kinect with a passion. It works fine for gross motor like my daughters dance games but useless for fine motor. Perhaps in the future I will write SQL statements by performing an interpretive dance at work, but I hope not. The failure rate is vital... If I'm typing this at 100 WPM, which is probably about right, then a 99% motion detection success rate means I'd swear and hate motion detection and have to stop and fix an error, what, every six seconds or so? All day long? Forget that, I'm sticking to the keyboard and mouse, I don't have the patience for 99% success.
- hoffcoder 13y ago
  The newer Kinect 2.0 will be able to do almost perfect finger tracking. Infact sign language recognition apps have been written for even the older Kinect (XBox 360 version). Check out the SigmaNIL framework and FORTH libraries offered with OpenNI.
  - Qworg 13y ago
    You wouldn't see this in an XBox game though - the XBox SDK doesn't support it.
    - hoffcoder 13y ago
      I think that the SDK is way ahead of OpenNI. Soon the more enhanced features of the new Kinect will make their way into games too!
  - replax 13y ago
    sorry, when writing about the kinect I assumed the new one. even though it's not available yet, it is more compareable to the leap than the old kinect, because of it's age :D

Well, as kinect already is capable of tracking your fingers, i am not sure the leap would be very useful. rather a slightly better kinect..

by replax 13y ago

Well, as kinect already is capable of tracking your fingers, i am not sure the leap would be very useful. rather a slightly better kinect..

tocomment 13y ago

Actually perhaps the leap could be placed on the front of the Oculus Rift. The only time you'd be doing detailed things with your fingers is when you're looking at them right? So at those time the leap would have a view of your hands. Then the kinnect (I guess one on each wall) would monitor larger movements.

XorNot 13y ago
The Leap doesn't have the range to do this. My brother has one and it's striking how narrow the field of view is.

VLM 13y ago

"kinect already is capable of tracking your fingers" I will nitpick the word selection that "capable" is nearly useless in a user interface. It needs to be nearly 100% reliable or its useless. 99% of my interaction with Kinect is my daughter crying that she can't navigate menus in her dance games and is all frustrated, followed by me being all frustrated and swearing about how if only I could bypass this POS and use the buttons on the controller I would be done twenty seconds ago and I hate Kinect with a passion. It works fine for gross motor like my daughters dance games but useless for fine motor. Perhaps in the future I will write SQL statements by performing an interpretive dance at work, but I hope not. The failure rate is vital... If I'm typing this at 100 WPM, which is probably about right, then a 99% motion detection success rate means I'd swear and hate motion detection and have to stop and fix an error, what, every six seconds or so? All day long? Forget that, I'm sticking to the keyboard and mouse, I don't have the patience for 99% success.

hoffcoder 13y ago
The newer Kinect 2.0 will be able to do almost perfect finger tracking. Infact sign language recognition apps have been written for even the older Kinect (XBox 360 version). Check out the SigmaNIL framework and FORTH libraries offered with OpenNI.
- Qworg 13y ago
  You wouldn't see this in an XBox game though - the XBox SDK doesn't support it.
  - hoffcoder 13y ago
    I think that the SDK is way ahead of OpenNI. Soon the more enhanced features of the new Kinect will make their way into games too!
- replax 13y ago
  sorry, when writing about the kinect I assumed the new one. even though it's not available yet, it is more compareable to the leap than the old kinect, because of it's age :D