myildirim / ofxleaptouch

Leap Motion as Touchless-Touch controller for openFrameworks

ofxLeapTouch

ofxLeapTouch is an openFrameworks addon to use the Leap Motion as a Touchless-Touch controller. After setting up a mid-air "touch" sensitive area near your screen, ofxLeapTouch is interpreting interactions in this field like an touch pad and sends basic openFrameworks touch events accordingly. Because of using these core events combining it with touch reactive user interfaces should be straight forward.

Touchless-Touch is NOT the next step/level for interacting with systems (mainly because of the missing haptical feedback) but it has its advantages (like hover/subtle states) and ofxLeapTouch helps exploring ideas in this field more quickly.

Features

• Setup for leap-to-screen mapping (touchless touch area)
• Emit ofTouchEvents according to finger/hand interactions
• Works with fingers and/or hands (check enum leapTouchMode)
• Addional events to work with hover/subtle states
• Distant to screen (z-Axis) gets send as touch pressure

Setup

• ofxLeapTouch is builded upon top of ofxLeapMotion, so please follow the install instructions there and try the basic example before you continue.

• To get a copy of the repository you can download the source from http://github.com/ixds/ofxLeapTouch or, alternatively, you can use git clone:

  git clone git://github.com/ixds/ofxLeapTouch.git

• The addon should sit in openFrameworks/addons/ofxLeapTouch/.

Dependencies

• ofxLeapMotion
• ofxGui (part of the oF core)
• optional: ofxTuioWrapper (example-leapToTuio)
• optional: ofxTangibleUI (example-touchlessUI)