If you thought the
Kinect was a brilliant step forward in 3D sensing and you were enthralled by the possibilities of hand gestures with the
Leap Motion,
then you might be interested in what the iMotion 3D motion controller
has to offer. A small rounded rectangular device that fits onto your
hand like a glove, the iMotion is composed of accelerometers, gyroscopes
and three LED sensors that will communicate with any standard web cam
to locate your body in 3D space. There's no special sauce to it either;
as long as you have the iMotion software on your computer, you're able
to use the controller with pretty much any application. However, iMotion
does plan on releasing an SDK so that developers can fine-tune their
app or game to enable additional features of the iMotion, such as better
precision and haptic feedback.
