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title: Infra-red photography with a Leap Motion Controller
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date: 2024-04-26
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- hardware
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- /blog/leapmotion-photography
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Ah, Leap Motion...
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Back in 2013, a company called *~~OcuSpec~~.. ~~Leap Motion~~.. ~~Ultrahaptics~~.. Ultraleap* released their first motion tracking device, the Leap Motion Controller.
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I recall first seeing one in elementary school.
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Looking back, I have no memory of what it was being used for, but I remember being fascinated with the diagnostics tool that showed the raw hand tracking data streaming from the device.
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## What does one actually do with one of these devices?
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Well, you see, thats a great question. Its probably also the reason why the company doesn't seem to be doing as well as people thought it would in the first place.
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There are very few practical applications for a non-haptic hand tracker. That being said, a few well-known demos do exist:
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- Hans Willem Gijzel used a controller to control Ableton (presumably through an M4L device) |