what is Leap Motion Controller and How Leapmotion Works

               Leap Motion Controller 3D Hands Gestures Detector

                   

What is Leap Motion             

           A dream of technology with 3D controls that detects the motion of  Real Hand gestures to control anything that you wants. A leap motion have an ability of detects waving fingers, wrist to preform or control physical objects without any contact with device. It has an ability to interact with your computer by waving you fingers and fists. The leap motion detector is relatively well constructed and inexpensive and it can track all 10 fingers. The leap motion technology tracks 200 frames per second of your hands by using infrared cameras.

I remember that when the touch screens was introduced. There is something different charm in touch screens and it replace the buttons in mobiles, laptops, computers. Its not wrong if i could say that soon the touch screen will replaced.

Yes it could
                  If  you try something that can open apps or play games or uses any 3D model view without any touch and click but only motion of your fingures in air. you can imagine that it is done by Leap Motion Controller 

When Leap motion was introduced to the world, it brought a new and unique user computer experience. You can grab objects, move objects, pic and place objects in your computer by using real hand gestures . This Device gives you a platform to take part in world of 3D technology. It might also control real world physical objects by using Microcontrollers like Arduino, Raspberry pi etc. 

VR With Leap Motion

          Leap motion device is not only for windows but its also lets you to use real hand motion in the mobile VR headset. It is android compatible its software works on all modern android phones. It has wide tracking area 180 x 180 degree of tracking beyond the length of human arm. It is incredibly fast and have low processing thats make the leap unique.

Introduction of Makers

Leap motion is an American company which design and markets the leap motion sensor device which supports the hand gestures, fingers
and pitch, yaw, roll motions. which can be control without touching any device and sensor.

The technology of leap motion sensor was first developed in year of 2008. After operating some work the leap motion a 3D gestures controller device publicly announced in 2010 its first product. The founder of  this 3D gesture tracking device are Michael Buckwald and David Holz. Leap motion developer software program launched in 2012. In 2014 the leap company launched its software for VR ( virtual reality ).

 

How Leap Motion Works

         Leap Motion Sensor has small usb peripheral device with two IR cameras that detects the motion or gestures of hands in 3D (x,y,z) Cartesian. It has three Infrared leds, the leap sensor makes roughly a hemispherical area in which it can works. The working area is from 1 inch to 1 meter. Leap motion technology camera generates 200 frames per second for sensing the gestures. This motion detector device detects the fingers, palm, wrist, yaw, pitch, roll and some other motion of hands. But its not the end of it. It can also control or detects the motion of things like fingures like pen, pencil, comb.

The leap motion software process the images capture by cameras. After compensating the back ground objects and detecting the position of hands and fingers the device can contruct a 3d visualization that what it sees. After extract tracking information the tracking algorithms interpret the 3D data that manages the tracking of gestures in the form of frames or snapshots. 
By great observation area and higher resolution of the device this controller can also use to perform navigating website, pinch to zoom gestures for 3D drawings and maps and manipulate the 3D gestures, Drawings.

How to use and download Leap motion software

          For downloading the leap software must check you computer configurations.

The minimum system requirements are:

1. Windows® 7/8 or Mac® OS X 10.7
2. AMD Phenom™ II or Intel® Core™ i3/i5/i7 processor
3. 2 GB RAM
4. USB 2.0 port

For VR , the minimum system requirement:

1. NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater 
2. Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater 
3. 8GB+ RAM 
4. Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output 
5. 2x USB 3.0 ports 
6. Windows 7 SP1 or newer

If your system full fills the requirments you can simply download the leap motion software for windows by this link leapmotion/setup/desktop/windows

and for vr setup .leapmotion/windows-vr 

Now use the usb cable which is given with leap motion and connect it with device. The shiny side of device must be faces up and the green led side is towards you. 

after installing the setup open it. it seens like that

  

Just plugin the probe and enjoy the games with leap motion app for windows. There were a lot of games in it. Just sign up and download the games you like and How to play games with leap motion controller check my video

For Hardware controlling purpose like controlling robotic arms, and 3d gestures led control see my next post in which i use the arduino to communicate leap motion controller with hardware.  

   

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