Help with an interactive presentation for graduate project

[Bonzaibeck]

I am new to the Leap motion and I could use some pointers on where to begin. I am an architecture student finishing up my graduate project. I would like to create an interactive presentation where viewers can be supplied more information on a monitor by their interaction with the physical paper board. I would like to have details displayed based on what is pointed at on the drawings. I have seen similar implementations so I know something like this would be possible I just don't know where to begin.

An example of what I am trying to do is shown in this video. (http://vimeo.com/108232129)
The only difference is I would have the last selected image linger until a new image was selected. I am mainly interested in the ability to designate the selection zones as quickly as was demonstrated in the video.

Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can provide me

[user_337084]

you have to look different... the video show apps controlled easy by a mouse... then you have to implement just a mouse with leap motion. The events or actions to play its just design by wpf, or html with jquery...

[Joe_Ward]

The Leap Motion side of this shouldn't be too difficult assuming that you know a bit about programming and geometry.

Physical setup

You need to construct something that will keep the Leap Motion device and the paper board from moving in relationship to each other. Also, the touchable parts of the board must all be within the Leap's field of view (which is an inverted pyramid, not a rectangle).

Software

You'll need a calibration step where you define the shapes that viewers can interact with. You can do the same thing as in the video you cited, touch a point on the board and click a key to mark a point. You will need to save these shapes for use later in your program and give them a name or id. (And if the device or board shift in relationship to each other, you'll have to redo this step.)

The Leap Motion software produces "frames" of tracking data, which you can get from the Controller object. At regular intervals, you would get a frame of data and look at the finger tip positions. If any of these tip positions are close enough to your defined shapes to be considered touching, then you trigger the action for that shape.

The Leap SDK supports C++, C#, Objective-C, Python, Java, and JavaScript. There's also an ActionScript library available.

[Bonzaibeck]

Thanks @Joe_Ward for the response.

Unfortunately I do not have much experience in the area of programming. I am not afraid to dive in and try to learn, but I also understand that it is not simple as just wishing it to be so. The geometry shouldn't be an issue. I have the physical construction of the board and mount already worked out and I have an understanding of the field of view of the device.

Are there any apps currently available that you are aware of that do something similar or anyone working openly on a similar project that I can look to code wise for reference to help understand where to begin. I have been trying to look in the forums and elsewhere, but have yet to find anything. I don't have a lot of time to prepare for the presentation so I can't take a full dive into learning a new language. I would also be interested in paying someone to work with me to help me develop the necessary software. I just don't know what options are available to me as this is something new for me.

I do feel that this has the potential to really open a lot of doors for my presentation format and would greatly appreciate any help I can get from the community.

[Joe_Ward]

I don't know of any out-of-the-box apps for this. Possibly a long shout, but maybe the developer who created the video above (http://lab.familyagency.ru/post/99400233352/touch-everything) would be willing to share.