Leap Motion

Controller
Presented by

Maheswar Rao Kinthada

What is Motion
controlling ?

Existing Technologies
Myo - Gesture Control (Thalmic Labs)
Kinect Xbox 360
(Microsoft)
Leap Motion
(Leap Motion, Inc. )

Leap Motion Controller

The Leap Motion Controller is a small USB

device that plugs into your computer.

It tracks both hands and all 10 fingers as

they move through the open space between
you and your computer, letting you interact
with over 140 apps built for motion control.

Visual representation

Architecture:

Application Programming
Interfaces
The Leap Motion SDK provides two
varieties of API to get tracking
data from the Leap Motion service:
a native interface and a
The native interface is a dynamic library
that you can use to create new, Leapenabled applications.

WebSocket interface.
The WebSocket interface and JavaScript
client library allow you to create Leapenabled web applications.

Field of View
The Leap field of view is an inverted
pyramid centered on the device.
The effective range of the Leap extends
from approximately 25 to 600 millimeters
above the device (1 inch to 2 feet).

Motion tracking data Overview

1. Frames
2. Hand model
2.1. Hand attributes
2.2. Hand motion
2.3. Finger and Tool lists

3. Finger and Tool models

4. Gestures
4.1. Circle
4.2. Swipe
4.3. Taps

Lists of tracking data

Hands
All hands.
Pointables
All fingers and tools asPointableobjects.
Fingers
All the fingers.
Tools
All the tools.
Gestures
All the gestures that started, ended, or which had an
update.

Attributes
The Hand object provides several attributes reporting the
physical characteristics of a detected hand:

palmPosition
palmVelocity
palmNormal
direction
sphereCenter
sphereRadius

Advantages

The tiny device may look like any old USB, but
power to change how we interact with
computers.

The leap motion offers a lot of potential to many

professions particularly the creative kind.

It is portable, so we can use it in any situation.

Leap is more accurate, cheaper and high

resolution

Future scope

Conclusion

Plug the leap into USB port and load the leap
motion software for the magic

Leap Motion plans has distributed thousands of

units for free to developers

It is affordable for many people

Available for preorder now

Wide response from users

Wireless version is already planned

References

https://www.leapmotion.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_Motion

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/507956/leaping-intothe-gesture-control-era/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture_recognition
https://medium.com/@candemir/taking-things-apart-vol-1
-leap-motion-36adaa137a0a#.n7o1njm30