{"id":653718,"date":"2013-04-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=803294"},"modified":"2013-04-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:00:00","slug":"youve-got-the-whole-world-in-your-hands-as-leap-motion-gains-google-earth-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653718","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve Got The Whole World In Your Hands As Leap Motion Gains Google Earth Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" src=\"http:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/leap-motion-google-earth.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-tc-carousel-river-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"leap-motion-google-earth\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 7px 0;\" \/><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='640' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RebX7YEn3GQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leap Motion&#8217;s gesture-based controller <a title=\"Leap Motion Controller Ships Pre-Orders May 13, Hits Best Buy Store Shelves May 19 For\u00a0$79.99\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/02\/27\/leap-motion-controller-pre-orders-to-ship-may-13-hits-best-buy-store-shelves-may-19-for-79-99\/\">launch is less than a month away<\/a>, but so far we&#8217;ve heard relatively little about app support, besides the fact that the company is working hard on filling out its Airspace app store. Now, Leap Motion and Google are announcing support for Google Earth for Leap Motion tech, which will be built-in to the desktop Google Earth app for Windows, Mac and Linux as of version 7.1 (out today).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good initial user pool for Leap Motion, since Google Earth has been downloaded by over 1 billion people according to Google&#8217;s stats. The endorsement by Google is crucial because of the company&#8217;s stature, and the fact that it builds a whole lot of software, including the Chrome browser, and because it gives potential Leap Motion owners a very tangible, natural and commonplace app to test out Leap Motion&#8217;s utility with.<\/p>\n<p>And we won&#8217;t have to wait until mid-May to find out how effective it is \u2013 10,000 developers arleady have access to Leap Motion Controller hardware as it is. Leap motion is looking for devs to try it out and submit their own YouTube videos of the experience, by flagging the posts with #LeapInto. Those will go into a playlist the company will share to show off its tech.<\/p>\n<p>Leap Motion continues to rack up the pre-launch hits, with major retail and OEM partnerships. The <a title=\"Leap Motion Controller Tech To Be Embedded In, And Bundled With, Future HP\u00a0Devices\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/04\/16\/leap-motion-controller-tech-to-be-embedded-in-and-bundled-with-future-hp-devices\/\">HP arrangement that will see its 3D gesture tech built-in to future laptops and other devices <\/a>in particular is huge news. But all that hype means it will face high expectations at launch, and Google endorsement drives those expectations even higher.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tctechcrunch2011.wordpress.com\/803294\/\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=CwUTtsGulkM:0XRMzufMNm0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=CwUTtsGulkM:0XRMzufMNm0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=CwUTtsGulkM:0XRMzufMNm0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=CwUTtsGulkM:0XRMzufMNm0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=CwUTtsGulkM:0XRMzufMNm0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leap Motion&#8217;s gesture-based controller launch is less than a month away, but so far we&#8217;ve heard relatively little about app support, besides the fact that the company is working hard on filling out its Airspace app store. Now, Leap Motion and Google are announcing support for Google Earth for Leap Motion tech, which will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}