Simple browser extension using Leap Motion
##Inspiration
Inspiration for this was to build a really cool way to interact with browsers rather than a traditional mouse pad. Leapper can be used across chrome browser on your devices and give you a awesome browsing experience.
##What it does Leapper is a chrome extension that lets you use Leap Motion to implement basic mouse controls on a web page.
##How I built it The first part was building Leapper to be more than just a gesture recognition software and use it in web browsing.
##Challenges I ran into As the Leap motion API provides specific finger tracking and gesture recognition without specific cursor controls, we had to find the right way to map it to a mouse.
##Accomplishments that I'm proud of Our extension successfully lets the user scroll on the web page and use the point-select functionality.
##What I learned Some of us had no clue how Leap Motion works and how do we make it work as a browser extension, this hack has taught us to explore everything we can and motivated us to try hack new hardware.
##What's next for Leapper Leapper has a vast development scope with a room for more than one hardware so we will work in developing Leapper 2.0 version compatible with Muse or even Myo bands to incorporate more versatile gestures
##Built With
javascript
leap-motion
json
##How to Use the Leapper Chrome Extension :
- Download the Leapper.zip to a specific folder. Extrach it and open a Chrome Browser
- Type chrome://extensions/ in the link and click on the Developer Mode
- Click on Load unpacked extensions and browse to the folder where Leapper is stored
- Bingo!! You have a Leaper Motions Plugin 1.0 installed and running
- Open the demo.html file so that you can view live demonstration of Leapper
- Leapper icon
will appear in the upper right corner of your Chrome Browser and extension is available (Control button is provided in case your browers does not automatically switch to Leap-Motion controlled hand)
