What about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA
Homepage: http://www.leapmotion.com/
and developers can get a free unit and SDK: https://live.leapmotion.com/developers.html
It's USB driven.

I guess that it uses isochronous USB data stream... and you now the MorphOS support of that.

Yes I know, but I put my hopes on pega-1's words:
"Unfortunately, there is no isochronous transfer support in MorphOS USB drivers yet. So this won't work for MorphOS as-is.
It is not completely unlikely that this will change in a future update, though. It just hasn't been considered top priority so far."

And with this cool Leap device it can maybe get a top priority:)

Forget: the usefull factor divided by the amount of data to process is near 0.

Well, as long as noone confirms the device requires iso transfer, it may work.

iso transfer is about loosing information during transfer. For audio it is clear that a lost/invalid packet simply gets dropped, but for such an input device it depends on the implementation.

Just remember a mouse is input, too and using interrupt transfer, which may be used here, too.

Step 1: Obtain a SDK
Step 2: Send a free sample to each MorphOS developer and it may be the main input device for MorphOS 3.2

Geit

[ Edited by geit 24.07.2012 - 23:33 ]

Yomgui,
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I don't see any indicatior it should use the isochronous transfer protocol. There is probably not a huge data transfer involved between the leap unit and the host. A device leike that probably will benefit from a warranted bandwidth, but this doesn't require isochronous transfer, but can be done by using interrupt transfer. Hence I rather guess it uses interrupt transfer like HID devices usually do.

I've not said "it's" but "I guess"...

Geit: we can't compare a mouse with that. Except if the device does most of data analyse, and just send short data, like a mouse device does, that's ok. But looking videos, I see some points cloud display, in realtime.
So...

For sure it's not mandatory, but depends on underlaying design, to have realtime stream as isochonous mode gives.
If you compare it just as a mouse. But using realtime transport gives also better synchronisation...
And I think gives also more throughput (need to be checked).

One thing sure, even if it's cool and I love the technology behind, there are more top priority stuff than this our system/machine.

[ Edited by Yomgui 25.07.2012 - 02:01 ]