Lemonity is a Unity Editor extension that allows you to navigate around the scene using your hands. A Leap Motion device is required for hand tracking.

Available at the official Unity Asset Store: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/161187

• Leap Motion device in desktop mode
• One or more hands
• Windows 10 x64
• Scripting Runtime Version .NET 4.6 or above

• Lemonity requires the Leap Motion Orion V4 service to be installed. You can download it for free here: https://developer.leapmotion.com/setup/desktop
• Import Lemonity package to your Unity project.
• Lemonity includes LeapMotion Unity Core Assets 4.4.0. If you already have this package added to your project, you should avoid importing it by unselecting “LeapMotion” folder. Alternatively, you can remove the folder from the project after importing (it will be in Assets/Lemonity/LeapMotion).

1. Open Lemonity options window using Unity menu “Window/Lemonity Options”
2. Choose a working mode in the Lemonity Options window
3. Optionally open Lemonity Debug window “Window/Lemonity Debug” to see more information.
4. You are ready to start working with Lemonity.

Only two gestures are used in Lemonity:

Grab Gesture

Close all the fingers

Pinch Gesture

Join thumb and index fingertips

Gesture limits and hysteresis can be adjusted in the Options dialog.

This working mode allows you to move and rotate the scene by grabbing it using the Grab Gesture. You can use one or two hands.

One Hand

Two Hands

Setting the scale

The range of motion of your hands depends on the Scene Scale parameter. As the scale increases, the sensitivity and precision are decreased. It’s convenient to enable Show Workspace (Visual Effects) to have an idea of the current range of motion.

• Option 1. Change the scale using the UI.

• Option 2. Change the scale using Pinch Gesture with both hands.

Rotation Factor

The rotation factor is a multiplier of the hand rotation. It allows you to perform rotations with less effort.

• Rotation factor 1x

• Rotation factor 2x

This mode allows you to orbit the camera around the selected object.

Rotate/Zoom feature

The grab gesture controls the orbit:

• Left/Right: Rotate around Y axis (yaw)
• Top/Bottom: Rotate around X axis (pitch)
• Forward/Backward: Zoom

Center/Align feature

Pinch gesture aligns the camera to the selected object:

• Simple pinch: Center view to selected object
• Pinch and move following an orthogonal axis: align view to axis

Fly around the scene using one or two hands. Do the grab gesture to navigate.

One hand

Move

Rotate

Two hands

Move

Rotate

A special flight mode where the height to the floor is fixed.

Gesture Thresholds

Gestures are triggered using hysteresis to improve stability. This means that they use a different threshold for detecting when a gesture starts and when it stops.

Grab gesture is detected using Leap Motion’s GrabStrength parameter, which ranges from 0 when the hand is fully open, and 1 when all the fingers are closed.

Start Threshold: If GrabStrength is higher than this parameter then the gesture is triggered.

Stop Threshold: If GrabStrength is lower than this parameter then the gesture is released.

Pinch gesture is detected using the distance (in millimetres) from Index and Thumb fingertips. It ranges from a close value near zero when both fingers are touching, to more than 50 when the hand is open.

Start Distance: If the distance is lower than this parameter then the gesture is triggered.

Stop Distance: If the distance is higher than this parameter then the gesture is released.

Tracking Filtering

Lemonity implements a motion filter to smooth the noise from the tracking. It filters Rotation and Position of the hands in space. The more aggressive the filter is, the smoother the movements will be at the cost of slow response.

Minimum Cut Off Frequency: Decrease it to decrease slow speed jitter

Beta Speed Coefficient: Increase the speed coefficient to decrease speed lag.

Cut Off for derivative: Used to smooth the speed calculation, defaults to 1.

Involuntary Gestures

Sometimes it is possible that a gesture is triggered involuntarily, especially when one of your hands moves near the Leap Motion workspace. This heuristic ignores the gestures that:

• Start outside of a defined safe zone (adjusted with the parameter Safe Zone Radius). This zone is showed in the Lemonity Debug Window.
• Move in outward direction.

The Lemonity Debug Window lets you know if a gesture is being filtered.