The Leap Motion Controller sits between keyboard and monitor. It’s a cool concept, and Leap Motion pulls off the execution reasonably well — for the surprisingly low price of $80.

I am very impressed with a lot of what Leap Motion is doing, but if there is knock it’s that right now I don’t see how gesture control on my PC improves over the traditional keyboard and mouse.

Leap hopes to change that, allowing people to use natural hand movements to control games, complete office tasks, paint, create 3-D objects, and edit music and video.

Using Leap Motion with a laptop computer is awkward. Even when the computer is securely planted on a desk, there is nowhere convenient to site the motion controller.

BRISTOL, England, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ultraleap announces the launch of the Leap Motion Controller 2, the second generation of the iconic hand tracking camera that allows you to use your ...

The Leap Motion Controller will support operating system interactions with Windows 7 and 8, and Mac OS X 10.7 and 10.8.