Asus has announced that the sales of notebooks and desktops will go on release that make use of motion gesture technology that the firm Leap Motion has been developed. It is the first agreement that the start-up with an oem for its system.
Leap Motion announced in may last year the system for detection of movement. This involves the use of a separate sensor module via usb powered. The start-up claimed that the so-called Leap many times more accurate than current techniques, such as touch screens or Microsoft’s Kinect. Also multitouch is recognized by Leap.
A single Leap-module is currently as pre-order for $ 70 to order. But Leap Motion has also made an agreement with Asus. The oem wants to make the Leap to go along with a number of laptop and desktopmodellen. Increase Leap Motion, the potential reach of its technology to significantly.
The first Leaps would, by Asus all-in-ones will be delivered, while in a later phase the input device also with high-end computers, which can provide bundled. Also it is not excluded that the Asus software for the Leap technology will develop, writes VentureBeat.
Leap Motion has also announced that it is in a new inzamelronde 30 million dollars of investors has picked up. In addition, the company will be an application store for Windows 8 and OS X offer that also on the Asus-systems installed. The start-up already has twelve thousand Leaps delivered to software developers. The company hopes to further that with more oem deals can close, and the motion gesture technology in the long term also in devices such as tablets and smartphones to integrate.