Thanks to?Kinect for Windows, motion-controlled computing?isn't confined to science fiction anymore. But not everyone who wants to navigate their computers ? la Tom Cruise in?Minority Report can afford Kinect's usual going?price of $200 to $250. Enter the Leap: a $70 smartphone-size device that adds gesture control to your laptop or desktop computer. The downside? It's not exactly available yet.
The Leap works with any?Mac or?Windows computer?? just plug it into a USB port, install the software, and calibrate it the first time you use it by waving your hand. Unlike the more expensive Kinect that can track the movements of your whole body, though, the Leap can only recognize hand gestures.
Leap Motion, the company manufacturing the device, claims it's "200 times more accurate than anything else on the market."?You still have some waiting to do before you can see for yourselves whether the Leap is actually better than Kinect?? the sensor won't be released until the end of the year or in early 2013, though you can already?preorder a unit today.
[via?ZDNet]
This article was written by Mariella Moon and originally appeared on Tecca
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