Leap Motion, The Gesture Based Controller "Minority Report" Like Interface, is Now a Reality

There was once a time when humans couldn’t interact with computers except via punch cards. Since then we’ve upgraded to flashing green cursors demanding lines of code, then to the point-and-click graphical user interface pioneered by Xerox, and finally to the touchscreens of tablets and smartphones. Each step of the way computers have become more intuitive and more focused on natural human gestures.

Leap Motion takes this evolution to its logical end, enabling people to interact with computers using hand gestures alone. The $80 sensor tracks the movements of all ten fingers down to one hundredth of a millimeter and expands the largely 2D interaction of touchscreens to account for a third dimension–depth. The result is an interface straight out of science fiction. [Forbes]

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