Leap Motion introduces amazing Orion hand-tracking for virtual reality

No one knows the magic of hands like Leap Motion. And that’s why the San Francisco company is introducing a new hand-tracking system so that you can use your mitts in the new virtual worlds that are becoming possible with augmented and virtual reality.

The Orion hand-tracking product is a new generation of gesture control, one that Leap Motion promises is so natural and accurate that you’ll be able to use your fingers inside VR and AR worlds. I previewed the technology, and it worked really well. But it also made me wish that I could use my hands, arms, legs, and whole body inside virtual reality. It gives me a taste of the things that will come, and it makes me more excited than ever that we’ll be able to manipulate the things that we see in virtual reality in a way that is accessible to everyone. Indeed, if VR is going to be a $30 billion industry by 2020, as tech adviser Digi-Capital predicts, then we’re really going to have to find a way to use our hands.