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Better range on one side than the other?

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0 4 103 jaeg about 8 months ago

Is it normal to have a better range on one side of the sensor than the other? Using the visualizer as an example if I move my hand right I can get the fingers to show up much farther and even cause the camera to move but when moving left it does not exceed the grid before my fingers disappear.

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1 flared0ne about 7 months ago

One way to determine whether the issue is "environmental or hereditary" (external or internal) would be to swap the direction the USB cable "tail" points (not clear whether you would need to explicitly inform your system you did that [there IS an option to DO that], or whether the sensor and drivers would automatically figure that out). And then test to see if the same side does the same thing (environmental, something external) or if the problem switched to the other side (hereditary, something internal).

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0 Kevin Dude about 8 months ago

The range should be pretty even. Have you run the calibration utility and made sure there aren't any smudges on the controller?

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0 Cervator about 7 months ago

I had a similar issue on SDK 0.7.4 where my right hand would be much flakier in the visualizer than my left. Turned out a small table lamp (with a curly energy saver bulb) a few feet away on my left side was reflecting off the inside of my right hand (and the back of my left, which wasn't visible to the Leap unit) somehow causing detection issues.

Turned off the lamp - tadaa! Both hands were equally well detected.

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By jaeg
on 2013-03-15

Interesting, I'll play around with the lighting in my room to see if I can find something causing it.

By flared0ne
on 2013-04-06

Those curly fluorescent bulbs run hot enough they throw off a significant amount of infrared. I had to "un-Green" several lights in my work area before I stopped getting random interference that seemed to shift around when I moved around in my office chair.
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0 jaeg about 7 months ago

I've tried recalibrating it but that one side just doesn't won't to work well for me even during calibration it gives issues. It's not that that side is flakier it just literally cuts out before the other side does.

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By jaeg
on 2013-03-28

It still usable however so I'm not going to complain too much.

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