Use Leap Motion vertically

[RussellNeeley]

Were wondering if Leap Motion can be used vertically mounted (usb facing the ground and its parallel to the wall)?
Basically looking at it from the front, the cameras are lined vertically. Software change can achieve this?
https://www.google.com.vn/

[AlexColgan]

It hasn't been optimized for that angle, so we would not recommend it, as the tracking will be less robust.

[waynefrick]

I would also like to mount it vertically in front of a turntable so I could use it to 3D scan an object. People already do this using Kinect controllers. Why not Leap Motion? The resolution is WAY better from what I can see.

[waynefrick]

Okay, so I've read more about this and fully understand my lack of understanding of how Leap Motion works, so we don't need a lot of reiteration of that. Leap Motion IS a system with 2 cameras, though, so here's where I think this could go.

As I understand it, lots of folks put a solid object on a turntable, take multiple photos, index it slightly, take more photos, and etc. Lather, rinse, and repeat ad nauseum until images have been taken from every which way. Software then chances and assembles a 3D image from the RAW image files. The other way to accomplish this is to move the camera, but as I see it, this approach would be harder, since you'd have more than one camera angle. Maybe that's not a bad thing, but I think I'd rather only turn it in one plane.

So the question remains, if Leap Motion is a system using a pair of cameras, can it be used to capture images that can then be assembled into 3D models?

[AlexColgan]

It's possible, but the 3D models would have a lot of noise, since we're an optical sensor rather than time-of-flight. Our technology doesn't track depth directly, but infers it.