Developers of educational software have figured out how to use the controller to teach geometry, astronomy, even biology with virtual dissection of things like frogs, tarantulas and human skulls. Famed comic book creator Stan Lee's gotten into the Leap Motion game with Verticus, which puts you in the role of a superhero trying to save Earth from alien destruction.īut games are only one starting point for using the Leap Motion Controller. One of my favorites, Vitrun Air, plays a bit like Super Monkey Ball, with you pushing, pulling and sliding a ball through increasingly complex and treacherous mazes suspended in space. There are dozens of downloadable games, many free, many others costing only a few dollars, that demonstrate the peripheral's ability to sense motion. Predictably, gaming is a huge part of the Leap Motion Controller experience.
There are about a half a dozen different apps to control your Mac using the Leap Motion Controller. There are packages you can download - both paid and free - that enable you to use Leap Motion gestures to interact with the system, however - opening windows, positioning your cursor, clicking on buttons and more. The basic software doesn't support any sort of built-in emulation of mouse or trackpad movements, so you'll find yourself working within Airspace to get started. Settings enable you to customize the height of the "interaction area," so you don't trigger it accidentally, along with tracking priority and other functions. The device itself has sensors that detect your hand and finger motion as you move above it.
Airspace is the software that controls the device it's also the name of the online store where you can download apps designed to support the Leap Motion Controller. You plug it in and install a software package from the Leap Motion web site. Setting up the Leap Motion Controller is pretty easy.
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