I found www.leapmotion.com on the web while I was researching on touch screen monitors, since I just bought Windows 8. I though it looks very promising. Here's a short video of Leap Motion Technology.
On the website and in some interviews, it's stated that they will release this device to the market in May 2013. It is now 16 April 2013. There's a pre-order page on the web site and I'm itching to buy it, yet I'm afraid that this may turn out to be a scam. Sounds too good to be true. at US$79.99.
Leap Motion (US$79.99) or Touch Screen Monitor (US$899)?
I will wait around for a month more before I dive in.
Some videos on the Dell S2340T 23-inch Multi-Touch Monitor with LED that I was keen on before I chanced upon Leap Motion.
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Update on 5 May 2013 :
On the Leap Motion Site, they have indicated that they have postponed the shipment to 22 July 2013.
Hmmm...
Here's an excerpt from the link: http://blog.leapmotion.com/
Release Date Update
25 APRIL, 2013 46 COMMENTS NEWS
I wanted to reach out to update you on the status of our ship date. After a lot of consideration, we’ve decided to push back the date and will now be shipping units to pre-order customers on July 22nd.
This is not a decision we take lightly. There are hundreds of thousands of people in over 150 countries who have pre-ordered Leap Motion controllers, some as long as a year ago. These people are part of our community and there is nothing more important to us than getting them devices as quickly as possible.
We’ve made a lot of progress. When we first started taking orders back in May we were twelve (very tired) people in a basement. Now we are eighty (although still tired and possibly still in a basement). We’ve manufactured over six hundred thousand devices and delivered twelve thousand to amazing developers who are building applications that let people do things that just wouldn’t have been possible before.
These developers have given us great feedback that we’ve used to make huge improvements to the stability and polish of the product. We’re really proud of Leap Motion as both a company and a product.
The reality is we very likely could have hit the original ship date. But it wouldn’t have left time for comprehensive testing. This will come in the form of a beta test that will start in June. We will give the 12k developers who currently have Leap Motion controllers access to the feature complete product including OS interaction (today developers only have access to the SDK). We will also invite some people who are not developers to join the beta test.
Ultimately, the only way we felt 100% confident we could deliver a truly magical product that would do justice to this new form of interaction, was to push the date so we would have more time for a larger, more diverse beta test.
I really appreciate your patience. I know it’s been a long wait. Everyone at Leap Motion is working tirelessly to make sure that the wait is worth it. Thanks so much for your help and support.
David and I will be participating in an open video Q&A using Google Hangout tomorrow at 11:30am Pacific time. To join our hangout, please visit our Google+ page. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact our support team at support@leapmotion.com or my personal email (buckwald@leapmotion.com). As always, we will not charge pre-order customers’ credit cards until the devices have actually shipped.
Thanks again.
Michael Buckwald"Sounds very suspicious to me. I have my doubts. Let's wait till July 2013 for more news.
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Update: 26 July 2013
I've already gotten my touch screen monitor from Acer.
But decided to check back on the Leap Motion Delivery that was slated for 22 July.
Quick Search on the web and here's a good link for reference
from a writer at ZDnet published on 23 July:
http://www.zdnet.com/leap-motion-begins-shipping-about-a-year-ahead-of-its-time-7000018410/
Excerpt:
"The Leap Motion controller began shipping this weekend and I received mine in the mail today. Although some people that place pre-orders got theirs over the weekend, Leap just posted the software today. "
"It's early yet, but I like what I see. It feels like the future.
Leap Motion is novel in these early days but I can't wait to see what kind of innovative applications are developed to exploit its innovative sensors. Someday when motion sensors are built into every computer (Leap Motion has announced partnerships with HP and ASUS), it's conceivable that we won't touch our computers at all, but instead just point, swipe and gesture in the air in front of them.
"
But I have not seen many articles written by real users beyond the ones written by editors.
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Update: 26 July 2013
I've already gotten my touch screen monitor from Acer.
But decided to check back on the Leap Motion Delivery that was slated for 22 July.
Quick Search on the web and here's a good link for reference
from a writer at ZDnet published on 23 July:
http://www.zdnet.com/leap-motion-begins-shipping-about-a-year-ahead-of-its-time-7000018410/
Excerpt:
"The Leap Motion controller began shipping this weekend and I received mine in the mail today. Although some people that place pre-orders got theirs over the weekend, Leap just posted the software today. "
"It's early yet, but I like what I see. It feels like the future.
Leap Motion is novel in these early days but I can't wait to see what kind of innovative applications are developed to exploit its innovative sensors. Someday when motion sensors are built into every computer (Leap Motion has announced partnerships with HP and ASUS), it's conceivable that we won't touch our computers at all, but instead just point, swipe and gesture in the air in front of them.
"
But I have not seen many articles written by real users beyond the ones written by editors.
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