Sunday, 22 July 2012

Leap Motion gesture based interface

Ever since it was made popular by films like Minority Report (which I'm extremely proud to mention that Possible Worldwide's Chief Interaction Officer, Dale Herigstad was behind some of the UI concepts used in the film), using gesture to manipulate devices have been somewhat of a holy grail from a user experience standpoint.

Had the chance to work with Dale in the past, its almost next to impossible try to keep up with his ideas in UI with current available technology. He is always pushing technical dudes like me to the limit of what is feasible.

This gadget however looks really promising. Gesture based interaction with your computer to replace your keyboard and mouse. The ipod sized device allows you to control a computer as an I/O device with natural hand and fingers movements. 

The intro video on the site looks really good.

Only catch? Its not on sale yet. Expect delivery of the device in Dec 2012/Jan 2013.

Read more here.
http://www.leapmotion.com/

Image credits: Screen cap of leap motion video on http://www.leapmotion.com/