Thanks for doing this video, Max. That thing looks pretty cool.

It makes Kinect look dumb? I'm pretty sure kinect does that itself pretty damn well.

Oh Nitex, you're so clever. Also, that's one of the first things I said in this video.

I saw that there were two comments on this post so far and made the bet to myself that one of them was "Kinect makes itself look dumb". Lo and behold one of them was. But at least it was the second comment and not the first. Nice restraint on the obvious joke commenters.

It seems pretty neat as a device, and very... Sciencey, but my question is whether or not it will actually be useful for things like gaming and everyday use. It seems like it could tire your arm out quickly, and difficult to get the hang of. Plus, just because you can do things in a different way, doesn't mean that the new way is more user-friendly.

Still, I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes. It seems like it could be pretty neat.

Integrate this with holograms and this would be the most epic gaming creation ever this is actually the foothold in virtual reality I think.

That's gotta be so much fun just to mess around with. I don't know about real world application, but at $70, it's hard to say no to.

I saw some news article on Leap months ago and the first things I thought about were Minority Report and Gamer.

Touch screen monitors are pretty damn expensive. Leap could be a cheap alternative.

Hey Max,the bit where you played Half Life, there seemed to be a couple points where a gun changed or shot into a wall without you meaning to do that. How much of that was not being used to the setup, and how much was it being finicky?

This looks easier to use than a wacom tablet for digital art.

I could imagine one's arms will getting tired after a while, but other than that I'm really impressed.

After using it for a while, your muscles would get used to it and you'd be fine.

I would use one of these But I would have to much of an urge to use my dick to navigate the net

Dear God. That thing really does make Kinect look line dog shit. How the fuck did they release that thing when there's infinitely more responsive and capable technology in a fraction of the size? (I know, its range us limited, but still). Holy shit, that thing is smooth and capable!

I wonder how useful this will be with a x86 Win 8 tablet transformer, because that is interesting me.

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Easier than a Wacom tablet? I really doubt that. Plus it would have no pressure sensitivity and would most likely be overall less capable. It's also significantly easier to physically place pen tip on something and have a place to rest my wrist (IMO).
However, I do really want to give this thing a go. I don't know how practical it would be, but I love how close we are to controlling computers like in sci-fi movies.

This looks impressive, but I'm yet to be sold on ditching mouse and keyboard for non-gaming applications by anything on the market.

Whoa. I mean, you can still see where it's finicky, but it's still very cool looking. Not going to jump at a preorder yet, but I'll pay attention to this.

I wouldnt be suprised if Microsoft bought out this company and integrated the technology into Kinect.

I could actually see myself using this with day to day stuff in conjunction with my keyboard. For example, I could scroll and read a web page by leaning back in my chair. Or if I could hold up a hand gesture to pass off control from the mouse full time to hand gestures as well I could actually browse easily. Your finger would control the mouse cursor and I could do all this while leaning back in my chair casually hanging out.

It will not replace a mouse and keyboard but it could work extremely well in conjunction with them. Hell, that Kinect tank game (not sure on the name) that allowed you to use the controller and Kinect sounded like an amazing idea...sadly it wasn't implemented all that well due to the limitations of the current iteration of Kinect.

Since this is only $70 bucks I may actually just go ahead and pre-order one of these.

Wow now I believe this thing works, I Want one.