Leap motion officially into China: cooperation with Shenzhou price 688 yuan

August 29, LeapMotion announced to enter the Chinese market, and the choice of digital cooperation with Shenzhou. The latter acts as a distributor in the domestic market and is responsible for branding and marketing-related work.

The emergence of leapmotion, known as a computer interactive mode of revolution, through only a larger than the ordinary U disk leapmotion hardware devices, so that interactive operation into a three-dimensional space, the hands from the mouse and keyboard liberated.

Enter China

At present, LeapMotion has become a platform-level product, its value lies in the application of various applications in the market, developers give leapmotion more imagination space.

The first show in China, LeapMotion founder CEO Michael Buckwald talked about the development of LeapMotion, LeapMotion has sold more than 400,000 units worldwide, the application download has been more than 2.5 million times, The total amount of corporate finance has exceeded 45 million dollars.

Two new changes

At present, the two changes of leapmotion development are the introduction of the 2.0 version of the application software, which is equal to the upgrade of its operating system, and has a great improvement in recognition accuracy. The 2nd is LeapMotion's intention to make a virtual reality attempt on the hardware, a virtual reality device called VR Mount will be launched.

VR mount is in fact a leapmotion and Oculus virtual reality helmet combination of products, I tried this product on-site, wear, in the helmet can see the eyes of the 3D activities of the finger space, this way will be able to apply to virtual 3D games and other scenes.

Future application Scenarios

Michael Buckwald mentions that he thinks LeapMotion has a promising application market for cars, mobile devices, and home environments, which is for ordinary users. In the professional market, there will be more application prospects, such as he mentioned:

Military industry, robot control technology field, banking, health care industry, art and design and education industry.

Opportunities for Developers

Products like LeapMotion, where the value of the device alone is small and the value needs more developers to give, LeapMotion had a small developer conference in the country to encourage developers to develop more playful applications based on leapmotion.

I also saw some of the more imaginative display, such as Leapmoto to control the manipulator, crawl, transfer solitaire.

Price and market

Through the digital China into the Chinese market leapmotion, the hardware price is 688 yuan. Using digital China channels, leapmotion a very fast way to enter the Chinese line under the market.

But the number of users who pay for fresh products like leapmotion will take time to test.

Digital China responsible for the leapmotion into the Chinese market, and by its agent, understood from the traditional PC to the laptop, and then to the smartphone after the third consumer electronics innovation replacement products.

This is a very high positioning, but compared to laptops and smartphones, smart new hardware has not yet reached the strong demand for these products, so leapmotion into the digital China such a large channel, it is true that intelligent innovation hardware into the mainstream market, a start, The market also needs to be more active and mature, and users and markets are still being nurtured.