I bought this device when if released, and figured I would share two videos I made about the device. Basically it hooks up to your computer via USB 2.0 and it tracks your hands. You can use it with a lot of apps that have been created for it. Here are the videos: Overview: Watch in HD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STp2Nv5-8ws Demo: Watch in HD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Gf4-_oguE What are your thoughts on this device? Do any of you have it or plan on buying it?
I bought this device when if released, and figured I would share two videos I made about the device. Basically it hooks up to your computer via USB 2.0 and it tracks your hands. You can use it with a lot of apps that have been created for it. Here are the videos: Overview: Watch in HD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STp2Nv5-8ws Demo: Watch in HD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Gf4-_oguE What are your thoughts on this device? Do any of you have it or plan on buying it?LCBradley3k
At 79.99 i would rather go buy a used Kinect for like $30 on ebay and get some of the user generated drivers for my PC.
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On a serious note i see you have the Saitek eclipse 2 keyboard. I had the first Eclipse keyboard. What i piece of crap that was. The keys started to smudge a year after use and now 3 years later the keyboard has completely failed on me. The funny thing is i have keyboards from around the windows 98 Era that still work like new. Saitek is a crap brand and i would never buy anything from them again.
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EDIT: ok so i had the keyboard for more like 5 years but it was still trash compared to plain old IBM and Dell keyboards that are twice as old and still work.
[QUOTE="LCBradley3k"]I bought this device when if released, and figured I would share two videos I made about the device. Basically it hooks up to your computer via USB 2.0 and it tracks your hands. You can use it with a lot of apps that have been created for it. Here are the videos: Overview: Watch in HD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STp2Nv5-8ws Demo: Watch in HD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Gf4-_oguE What are your thoughts on this device? Do any of you have it or plan on buying it?hofuldig
At 79.99 i would rather go buy a used Kinect for like $30 on ebay and get some of the user generated drivers for my PC.
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On a serious note i see you have the Saitek eclipse 2 keyboard. I had the first Eclipse keyboard. What i piece of crap that was. The keys started to smudge a year after use and now 3 years later the keyboard has completely failed on me. The funny thing is i have keyboards from around the windows 98 Era that still work like new. Saitek is a crap brand and i would never buy anything from them again.
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EDIT: ok so i had the keyboard for more like 5 years but it was still trash compared to plain old IBM and Dell keyboards that are twice as old and still work.
Mine works fine, that's strange. Maybe they improved the issues with this version. And the leap motion is way more accurate than a kinect. :)
[QUOTE="LCBradley3k"]I bought this device when if released, and figured I would share two videos I made about the device. Basically it hooks up to your computer via USB 2.0 and it tracks your hands. You can use it with a lot of apps that have been created for it. Here are the videos: Overview: Watch in HD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STp2Nv5-8ws Demo: Watch in HD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Gf4-_oguE What are your thoughts on this device? Do any of you have it or plan on buying it?LCBradley3k
At 79.99 i would rather go buy a used Kinect for like $30 on ebay and get some of the user generated drivers for my PC.
Â
On a serious note i see you have the Saitek eclipse 2 keyboard. I had the first Eclipse keyboard. What i piece of crap that was. The keys started to smudge a year after use and now 3 years later the keyboard has completely failed on me. The funny thing is i have keyboards from around the windows 98 Era that still work like new. Saitek is a crap brand and i would never buy anything from them again.
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EDIT: ok so i had the keyboard for more like 5 years but it was still trash compared to plain old IBM and Dell keyboards that are twice as old and still work.
Mine works fine, that's strange. Maybe they improved the issues with this version. And the leap motion is way more accurate than a kinect. :) Personally i have seen some pretty incredible stuff done with two kinetics connected to one PC. including being able to render the whole room and objects to some detail on the PC itself. I get what the Leap is going for but really. its just a gimmick
[QUOTE="hofuldig"] I get what the Leap is going for but really. its just a gimmick It still has a lot of potential. I bought it as kind of an investment. Either it's app store improves or it doesn't. :)
[QUOTE="LCBradley3k"][QUOTE="hofuldig"] I get what the Leap is going for but really. its just a gimmick It still has a lot of potential. I bought it as kind of an investment. Either it's app store improves or it doesn't. :) And that is fine. its your money. but if i get anything like this it will be something like a touch pad from a laptop. wich is inferior to a mouse so actually i never will. youd be better off saving your money. especially if the device gets hot like the person reviewing it says. for $80 it better not get hot and it better be reliable. It gets hot so i need to un plug it so how could it be very reliable?
Pretty neat stuff, I would love stuff like this to be integrated into the OS one day to control my computer from my bed. But until then I don't have much use for it.
Pretty neat stuff, I would love stuff like this to be integrated into the OS one day to control my computer from my bed. But until then I don't have much use for it.General_X
I new app game out so you can assign gestures to keys, which will definitely be an improvement.
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