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You seem to have missed the main point: "not going to replace actually touching the thing I want to touch on the screen".

That direct manipulation is unlikely to go away. While the Leap will be able to support such, touch is unlikely to go away. But I realize we are in the midst of overly sensational headlines.

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I was just responding to the fact that David Holz referred to existing touch apps as "legacy" apps. It does have a charge to it which is why I used it in the headline. What I would think all the hackers would like about the Leap is that it progressively enhances on top of existing touch (and GUI) UIs. It will replace those things to the extent that it's useful to people, but it doesn't seem like it breaks anything downstream of it.

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