Leap Motion development essentials / Mischa Spiegelmock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spiegelmock, Mischa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

Motion detectors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Spiegelmock Mischa: Mischa Spiegelmock is an accomplished software engineer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Slightly infamous from light-hearted technical pranks from his youth, he is now a respectable CTO at a healthcare software startup. His passions are architecting elegant and useful programs and sharing his insights into software design with others in a straightforward and entertaining fashion.

Summary:

This book is a fast-paced guide with practical examples that aims to help you understand and master the Leap Motion SDK.This book is for developers who are either involved in game development or who are looking to utilize Leap Motion technology in order to create brand new user interaction experiences to distinguish their products from the mass market. You should be comfortable with high-level languages and object-oriented development concepts in order to get the most out of this book.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.packtpub.com

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Leap Motion SDK - A Quick Start

An overview of the SDK

Quick start

Major SDK components

Controller

Config

Screen

Math

Frame

Hand

Pointable

Finger positioning

An example of cursor control

A gesture-triggered action

Summary

Chapter 2: Real Talk - Real Time

A simple gesture recognizer

Using the MIDI output

Blocking and latency

Multiprocessing with threads

Refactoring for multithreading

The producer-consumer race condition

Chapter 3: Actual Gestures

Computer input

Natural gestures

Receiving gestures

WindowFlinger - a high-level gesture application

Window management abstraction

Window docking

Driver implementation - Mac OS X

Accessibility API

flinger::MacDriver

Chapter 4: Leap and the Web

HTML5 and Leap

WebSocket

The Leap Motion service

LeapJS

JavaScript visualization

Chapter 5: HTML5 Antics in 3D

Cross-platform graphics party

WebGL

Three.js + LeapJS - the awesomesauce

Animating rotation

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 23, 2013).

ISBN:

9781849697736

1849697736

OCLC:

862048630