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Leap Motion for Developers

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Abhishek Nandy

    1. Kolkata, India

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  • Covers Python and Java with Leap Motion
  • Learn Unity with Leap Motion
  • Learn Unreal 4, Processing, and JavaScript with Leap Motion

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction to Leap Motion

    • Abhishek Nandy
    Pages 1-11

  3. Setting Up Leap Motion

    • Abhishek Nandy
    Pages 13-30

  4. Setting Up Leap Motion for Python

    • Abhishek Nandy
    Pages 31-52

  5. Leap Motion with Java

    • Abhishek Nandy
    Pages 53-82

  6. Getting Started with Unity and Leap Motion

    • Abhishek Nandy
    Pages 83-98

  7. Leap Motion with Processing

    • Abhishek Nandy
    Pages 99-117

  8. Leap Motion with Unreal Engine 4

    • Abhishek Nandy
    Pages 119-138

  9. More on Unreal Engine 4 and Leap Motion

    • Abhishek Nandy
    Pages 139-144

  10. Setting Up Leap Motion with JavaScript

    • Abhishek Nandy
    Pages 145-171

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 173-175
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About this book

Develop apps and games using the Leap Motion sensor. This book starts with a brief introduction to Leap Motion, then covers getting the Leap Motion working and setting up a Leap Motion development environment. Leap Motion for Developers also covers the life cycle of how you interact with Leap Motion and the workflow of making a complete app. You’ll see how to use different programming languages for simple and steady development.

The next part of the book walks through the basics of Leap Motion with Python and Java. We will then work on using Leap Motion with Unity, where we will build an app using Unity and then add different functionality to it. In the last part we cover Unreal 4, Processing, and JavaScript for Leap Motion. 



What You Will Learn
  • Look at the basics of Leap Motion
  • Develop apps for the Leap Motion sensor
  • See how different languages work with Leap Motion
  • Discover the future of Leap Motion
    • Who This Book Is For


    Students, developers, game developers, and tech enthusiasts.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Kolkata, India

    Abhishek Nandy

About the author

Abhishek Nandy is the founder of Geek Monkey Studios.  He is an Intel Black Belt Developer as well as a Microsoft MVP and Intel Software Innovator. Abhishek has won several global Developer Challenges,  and he represented India at Intel's Black Belt Developer Summit in San Francisco in 2014.  He has been a speaker at NGDC Pune 2015. Abhishek's passions are tech and learning and combinations of the two. He currently resides in Pune, India.

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