Apple’s next innovation: 3D gesture-based computing puts the ‘post’ in Post-PC
... To understand the potential here, imagine your Mac desktop to be a three-dimensional place. As a user you might actually experience the sensation of walking through that space, reaching for the files and folders you need, controlling them through a mix of spoken word and gesture controls.
The entire experience would be visible to you through your glasses. The logical outcome would see your computer become discreet to an extent far beyond anything in Minority Report. ...
Leap Motion meanwhile seems content to forge its own path. It offers a sensor device that introduces the tech to other computers (PCs and Macs) and is whispering of plans to offer its own app store through whichindependent developers can offer up their 3D-ready apps.
Maybe, maybe not
However, it might be that Apple has no need to pick up Leap Motion -- after all, the surfeit of 3D interface patents may well suggest the company has its own plans for this. It's also important to keep the Apple maxim in mind: it will only bring a technology to market if it is able to apply it properly. ...
Disruptive technology
Meanwhile industry observers at MIT Technology Review seem giddy with anticipation for the new interface, calling this the "most important technology since the smartphone", they write:
"The fact that the Leap can see almost any combination of objects - a pen, your fingers, all 10 fingers at once, should make every interface designer on the planet giddy with anticipation. ...
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