Connecting Leap Motion with windows phone

[nmcajulao]

Hello everyone,

I am a university student and currently working with a thesis that involves using leap motion to be directly connected with phone, specifically a windows phone since the android sdk is currently unavailable. I'm searching for this similar topic on the community but can't find one involving a windows phone.

My problem is that is it possible to connect the leap motion device using its standard cable's end connected with a type-a cable whose the other end consist of a micro usb cable and the micro usb cable will be connected with a phone utilizing a windows operating system.

mainly it will look like this

if the connection is possible, will the phone handle the processing and power consumption of the leap motion device?
I'm looking for immediate answers. Thank You!

[Joe_Ward]

The first question is whether the Leap Motion service will run on the phone, and I don't think that is possible. The phone would need to be able to run Windows services and allow interprocess communication. I don't think that Windows 10 supports this on a phone (but I could be wrong). If it is possible, then you would need a processsor/gpu, etc. along the lines of the Google Daydream spec to run the service adequately along side your application.

[nmcajulao]

Thank you for your immediate reply sir.

We already considered these problems with our research but I would like to reference the work of the motionsavvy group specifically their product UNI. Breaking the parts of UNI are the tablet and the leap, the tablet uses a windows 8.1 operating system and its micro usb port is used by the leap motion and that would quite give a hope for the leap-to-windows-phone connection. My only problem is that how they port or connect the leap into the windows phone which has a micro usb port and im thinking about connecting with the idea interpreted by the images above.

[Joe_Ward]

The Leap Motion hardware uses a standard USB connector, so some sort of adapter could be used to make the electrical connection.

[AStratton]

Hi - ignoring just the performance issues - which are major, you would also need to solve the driver issues.

As an alternative, why don't you use a different architecture - e.g. plug the leap into a PC, which gets all the data into NodeJS - then use socket.io to push the data to a browser based client on the windows phone. And - if this doesn't work, you can still run on a PC.

You would need to test out the latency to see if this made sense - the delay in the network might be too great, depending on what your application is - remote flying a drone is unlikely to work.

I would also recommend that you try to let the PC do all the 'heavy lifting', i.e. let the PC pass on gestures, not try to identify them on mobile.

If you're .NET based, you could go with C# PC hosting instead.

Hope this helps
Andy

[nmcajulao]

Good day sir,

Knowing that connection or whatever adapter they have used would be a great step for me in developing my research.
And by the way sir, my original goal was to use an android device instead of a windows phone, and I saw this forum topic named "VR Leap on Cardboard Mobile with latest V2 SDK" (URL: https://community.leapmotion.com/t/vr-leap-on-cardboard-mobile-with-latest-v2-sdk/2625) in regards with connecting the leap to an android phone of which the author was able to make, but still the connection needs the mobile SDK of which at the current is still under development. I would just like to ask for a definite time span or range of when will it be available, can you give me that sir?