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May 31, 2012

David Holz’s Leap Motion Wants to Kill the Mouse

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By Adam Satariano, Bloomberg Businessweek

A new startup, Leap Motion, is dedicated to changing the way people interact with computers. David Holz and his co-founder, Michael Buckwald, have built a device about the size of a cigarette lighter that contains three tiny cameras inside. It attaches to a computer and turns any PC or Mac into a gesture-recognition device. The idea is similar to the one behind Microsoft’s (MSFT) Kinect, an Xbox add-on that lets people play games just by moving their hands and body. At $70, the Leap Motion is about half the price of a Kinect. It’s also far more accurate, says Holz. The software that analyzes the images from the three cameras can track all 10 of a user’s fingers and detect movements of less than one-hundredth of a millimeter. “It’s so precise that it tracks down to the tendon,” says Andy Miller, a former Apple (AAPL) executive and now a partner at Highland Capital Partners, which has contributed to Leap Motion’s $14.5 million in funding.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-24/david-holzs-leap-motion-wants-to-kill-the-mouse

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