Want to make a good first impression? We recently highlighted how app menus and settings are crucial to setting the tone for the rest of your app experience. But before your users download your app, they’ll be looking at its Airspace profile – and most people will make a purchasing decision within a few seconds.
Rob O’Leary is an Irish software engineer based in Rome – where he learned that Italian is all about hand movements. Rob became interested in the Leap Motion Controller after seeing its accessible approach and open developer APIs. The latest version of his JavaScript gesture learning and recognition framework lets you upgrade a standard web interface to a motion interface in just a few minutes.
Computer vision is difficult.
Actually, forget that. Computer vision is no problem – you hook up a webcam and boom. The machine can see. However, making a computer understand what it’s seeing is very difficult indeed. The Leap Motion Controller provides a solution. By interpreting the data coming from its cameras, it presents structured information to the computer – telling it there’s a hand here, with fingers there, moving this way and that.
However, while the Leap Motion Controller allows the machine to identify hand movements, for many applications there still remains the challenge of interpreting what those movements actually mean.
