A motion control device THAT DOESN'T SUCK...

[quote=Searz][quote=lifebaka] [quote=Canoas] Have you thought how kinect games would work with that? Well I can tell you IT WON'T CAPTURE ANYTHING. The range is way too small, you need to capture the whole body's movements for it to be any useful.[/quote] You guys are both being very silly. This has obvious, huge applications in gaming. Just perhaps not the sorts of gaming either of you are thinking about. For something like Call of Duty, it probably won't be useful. I think we can agree on that. For a Civilization game (or, even better, Sword of the Stars)? It could be amazing, input lag or no input lag. The comparison to the Kinect is... Well, you can't compare them directly. They are made for different things. Kinect is a full-body capture device, the Leap is not. The Kinect is designed to be used at a range of several feet, the Leap is designed for your hand to be about a foot above it. Note, also, that if you aimed a Kinect up, it wouldn't do much; it's designed to be used at near-horizontal angles. As for the input lag itself, everything has input lag. It takes time for the signal from any input device to reach the computer, for the computer to decode and use that signal, and then for the computer to tell the monitor what to display. It's just that the amount of time taken is short enough that it's well below human perception. From another video where the Leap's creator was talking about it, he mentioned that the main sources of input lag with his product are the computer's USB bus and the monitor itself. That is to say, the main reason that you'll have any input lag with his product [i]is the rest of your computer[/i], not the Leap itself. So it's basically a non-issue. (If you're talking about the loading lag on his map demonstration, that was the map loading slowly.) Also, guys, keep in mind that this is designed from the more traditional computer, rather than consoles. To adapt it to consoles wouldn't be difficult, however. All you'd have to do is make it small (which it already is) and wireless (which wouldn't be difficult). Then it could be easily set on any horizontal surface and used from anywhere near the console. Basically, it'd be a controller/gamepad.[/quote] Input lag is something that ruins anything that relies on reaction time, and a lot of things in gaming today require that, so I think it's fair to say that controllers with input lag can get very annoying, especially so when it's very noticeable (like with the Kinect). --- Using the Leap Motion for strategy games could be quite excellent.[/quote]

[quote=Canoas]It would be nice for commanding armies, but I don't think it'd be useful to build them. Where would your hotkeys be?[/quote]

[quote=Canoas][quote=Searz]Lol, what? So you're blaming a controller for not working with a game designed for another controller?[/quote] You're the one who made the comparison with the kinect. The kinect is a thousand times better than for the games it was designed for.[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=Canoas] [quote=Searz]Lol, what? So you're blaming a controller for not working with a game designed for another controller?[/quote] The kinect is a thousand times better than for the games it was designed for.[/quote] Thank you Captain Obvious.[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=Canoas] It would be nice for commanding armies, but I don't think it'd be useful to build them. Where would your hotkeys be?[/quote] It could be used with a keyboard to essentially just replace the mouse.[/quote]

[quote=Canoas][quote=Searz]Thank you Captain Obvious. [/quote] You do realise you're only insulting yourself, right? You made a comparison between the two and said that this control is both better and cheaper than the kinect, how come now you're saying it's obvious it isn't?[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=Canoas] [quote=Searz]Thank you Captain Obvious.[/quote] You do realise you're only insulting yourself, right?[/quote] Right back at ya. Comparing two controllers as a consumer of games is a very valid comparison. Price and responsiveness being two big parts of what makes a product good or bad.[/quote]

[quote=Canoas]They serve completely different purposes. That's like comparing a mouse with a keyboard, it's not a valid comparison at all.[/quote]

[quote=Searz]It's like comparing a mouse+keyboard to an Xbox360 controller.[/quote]

[quote=Canoas]No, because they serve different purposes while a mouse+keyboard and xbox controller are interchangeable. Some games will be better with one, some will be better with the other. When you're talking about kinect and this new sensor the games you make for one CANNOT be played with the other, they're simply UNPLAYABLE. It won't even work.[/quote]