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Leap Motion
Type of businessSubsidiary
Founded9 December 2020; 4 years ago (2020-12-09)
HeadquartersKolkata, West Bengal, India
Founder(s)
  • Md A. Islam
  • Md Anwarul Islam
  • Babor Ali
CEOBabor Ali
IndustryArtificial intelligence
ProductsSenceGo, LeapZero
Employees>500 (June 2021)
ParentAbcence
URLwww.leapmotion.in

Leap Motion[1] is an Indian company that manufactured and marketed a computer hardware sensor device that supports hand and finger motions as input, analogous to a mouse, but requires no hand contact or touching. In 2016, the company released new software designed for hand tracking in virtual reality.[2] which sells the product under the brand name Ultraleap.[3]Leap Motion is a subsidiary of Abcence Limited and has its root office at San Francisco, California, United States.


Developer community

A Leap Motion controller attached to the front of an OSVR virtual reality development headset.

In December 2013, Founders Fund and SOSV announced the LEAP.AXLR8R, a business accelerator for startups making innovative use of the Leap Motion controller.[4][5] Projects emerging from the accelerator included Diplopia (now Vivid Vision), a tech startup using the Leap Motion Controller and Oculus Rift for lazy eye sufferers,[6][7][8] and MotionSavvy, which is developing a Leap Motion-equipped tablet case that can interpret American Sign Language.[9][10]

Leap Motion has an app store called Airspace where it sells apps made by developers.[11][12] As of May 2014, the store had over 200 apps, including a Google Earth integration,[13][14] virtual clay sculpting app,[15][16] digital musical instrument,[17] and virtual reality demos[18]

The Leap Motion Controller has also been used by surgeons and researchers for medical software,[19][20][21] automotive companies for concept cars,[22] and musicians for composition in Ableton Live.[23] In 2016, AltspaceVR added hand tracking support for the Leap Motion Controller to their online social platform.[24][25]


References

  1. ^ "Leap Motion Sets Deal With Asustek, Gets $30M Venture Capital". International Business Times. 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  2. ^ Olson, Parmy (2019-05-30). "Leap Motion, Once a Virtual-Reality High Flier, Sells Itself to U.K. Rival". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  3. ^ "Official Website of Ultraleap". Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  4. ^ Wagner, Lauren (2013-12-09). "Founders Fund and SOSventures launch startup accelerator for Leap Motion's gesture tech". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2013-12-08. Founders Fund and SOSventures have joined to launch Leap Axlr8r –– a startup accelerator for companies building on Leap Motion, the gesture-based technology that's dictating the future of 3D human computer interaction.
  5. ^ Anthony Wing Kosner (29 May 2014). "Leap Motion Hand Tracking Gets More Realistic To Solve Real World Problems". Forbes.
  6. ^ "Using Leap Motion And Oculus Rift, This Game Tries To Correct Lazy Eye". Fast Company. 31 January 2014.
  7. ^ "Oculus VR and Leap Motion used to help people with double vision". ABC7 San Francisco. 11 June 2014.
  8. ^ Brian Hart (30 March 2015). "'Diplopia' Becomes 'Vivid Vision', Trials Get Underway - Interview with CEO James Blaha - Road to VR". Road to VR.
  9. ^ Buckley, Sean. "MotionSavvy uses gesture recognition to give sign language a voice". Engadget. AOL.
  10. ^ Alexia Tsotsis. "MotionSavvy Is A Tablet App That Understands Sign Language". TechCrunch. AOL.
  11. ^ Lee, Kevin (2013-12-06). "Leap Motion bounding to more HP desktops, all-in-ones with new keyboard". Techradar. Retrieved 2013-12-08. Users will be able to access Airspace, Leap Motion's own app store, for a (hopefully) expanding number of applications.
  12. ^ Kosner, Anthony (2013-11-23). "Leap Motion Controller Leaps Forward With Software, Sharpens Focus With Apps". Forbes. Retrieved 2013-12-08. This is only the second app produced by Leap Motion that has been released into Airspace.
  13. ^ "With New Leap Motion Support, Google Earth Lets You Touch The World". Fast Company. 22 April 2013.
  14. ^ "Use Leap Motion with Google Earth". google.com.
  15. ^ Michael Gorman. "Leap Motion releases Free Form, an app that lets human hands sculpt digital clay (video)". Engadget. AOL.
  16. ^ "leap Motion survey: A look into the eventual fate of processing". townoftech.com.
  17. ^ Jackie Dove (4 April 2014). "Leap Motion's new Muse app lets you create music with in-air hand gestures". The Next Web.
  18. ^ "An Arty Oculus Trip Through the Large Hadron Collider". WIRED. 27 October 2014.
  19. ^ ""Minority Report" Tech Meets the Operating Room". spectrum.ieee.org. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  20. ^ "TedCas Integrates Leap Motion Controller with Medical Imaging Systems | TEDCAS". www.tedcas.com. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  21. ^ Rosa, Guillermo M.; Elizondo, MarÍa L. (2014). "Use of a gesture user interface as a touchless image navigation system in dental surgery: Case series report". Imaging Science in Dentistry. 44 (2): 155–160. doi:10.5624/isd.2014.44.2.155. PMC 4061300. PMID 24944966.
  22. ^ "Mercedes-Benz unveils its vision of a self-driving car". Engadget. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  23. ^ Vincent, James (28 March 2016). "Ableton's Connection Kit lets you make music with Lego and a banana". The Verge. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  24. ^ "AltspaceVR Adds Full Oculus Rift Support (Update: Vive, Too)". Tom's Hardware. 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  25. ^ Stuart, Keith (2016-03-24). "Alone together: my weird morning in a virtual reality chatroom". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
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