Easy-to-use Gesture Recognizers for Leap Motion in Objective-C and C#
Upon getting a Leap Motion and wanting to hack the ever-loving crap out of it, we decided to make some gesture recognizers that allow listening and handling motions such as: Did swipe right with x fingers, y hands Did pan on screen with x fingers, y hands Did tap with x fingers, y hands Did rotate with x fingers, y hands Did pinch with x fingers, y hands These libraries make it easy to create a WPF or a Cocoa Mac OS X application for manipulating and using the Leap Motion. These are built on top of the Leap SDK, and a level of abstraction up. We hope that this can be the foundation for a…
Easy-to-use Gesture Recognizers for Leap Motion in Objective-C and C# launched on August 14, 2013 with 15 votes, #62 of 475 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
In plain words
This library provides gesture recognition tools for Leap Motion controllers in Objective-C and C#. It simplifies detecting hand motions like swipes, pans, taps, rotates, and pinches by specifying finger and hand counts. Built as an abstraction layer above the Leap SDK, it enables developers to quickly create gesture-driven applications for Mac OS X using Cocoa or Windows using WPF, providing a foundation for community-driven gesture recognition development.
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Upon getting a Leap Motion and wanting to hack the ever-loving crap out of it, we decided to make some gesture recognizers that allow listening and handling motions such as: Did swipe right with x fingers, y hands Did pan on screen with x fingers, y hands Did tap with x fingers, y hands Did rotate with x fingers, y…
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