Must-See Video: Gesture Control Accuracy Takes a Huge "Leap" Forward

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This morning, a San-Francisco-based company called Leap Motion released the demo video for their eponymous gesture control interface, which appears to be shockingly accurate:

It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen…. This isn’t a game system that roughly maps your hand movements. The Leap technology is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market — at any price point. Just about the size of a flash drive, the Leap can distinguish your individual fingers and track your movements down to a 1/100th of a millimeter.

The system can distinguish thumbs from figures and tell when you’re holding a pencil in your hand. Check it out:

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