Virtual book with leap motion

[bebpau]

Hi all,

i have a project of virtual book with physical pages.

in my mind i'll need : a real book with few white pages, a tiny videoprojector which displayed images/videos from top to bottom on the book, a pc with a flash or an html5 flipbook and a leapmotion. Something like this : http://expo1910.ulb.ac.be/la-visite/le-plan/lutrin-virtuel/lutrin-virtuel-video/

The user could flip the white page (with projection) like a real book and the real pinch movement will launch the click and drag mouse option of my digital flipbook.

is it possible to install the leap motion over the book ? do you know if a project like this existing yet ? do you it's possible ?

regards

[jdonald]

A "virtual book with Leap Motion" alone is easy to prototype. Windows 8 users, just install Touchless (use Advanced mode) from the Leap Motion App Store plus Kindle from the Windows Store.

The physical pages make things a lot harder. We don't support having the Leap Motion device pointing downward toward a surface, but we do support head-mounted mode. Arbitrary objects in the hand, such as paper, can interfere with tracking. You could mitigate this by making your physical page black, but then the picoprojector's image would be much less visible.

This nonetheless sounds like an interesting experiment.