Hardware
Gesture / Motion · BoraBora Lab

Reach in.
Take control.

Gesture Ring is a 447 mm ring with a Leap Motion hand tracker in its stem and a full-colour LED halo inside. Guests put a hand through it and steer content, light and sound without touching anything.

Move your pointer through the ring · click to pinch
Demo handx 0.00 · y 0.00depth 120 mm
From the Lab bench
In action

Light that follows your hand.

The LED strip sits flush in a groove on the inside of the ring, behind a silicone diffuser, so the light reads as one smooth line. It can wash the whole ring in one colour, fill a progress arc, or chase the position of your hand.

Ø447mm outside
Ø387mm opening
55mm deep
16mm light line
Gestures

Your hand is the controller.

The Leap Motion tracker follows both hands and every finger in the space inside the ring. We map those movements to whatever the experience needs.

Point & hover

Your palm becomes a cursor. Hover to highlight, hold still to select.

Menus · maps · explorers

Swipe

Flick left or right through the ring to page through stories, images or levels.

Galleries · timelines

Pinch

Bring thumb and finger together to pick something up, zoom, or confirm.

Select · zoom · collect

Grab & turn

Close your hand and rotate your wrist to spin a 3D object or scrub a value.

Products · globes · dials

Push

Move your hand forward through the ring to press, launch or trigger.

Start · fire · confirm
Anatomy

One ring. Four ideas.

Dimensions from the production drawing. The ring and stem are printed as one piece, so there are no seams where a hand passes through.

Ø447 Ø387 55 75 1 2 3 4 SECTION A–A 55 16 mm LED groove Leap Motion Ø45 alu tube
1Printed ring and stem

Laser-sintered in one piece and infiltrated with synthetic resin for a smooth, hard-wearing surface.

2LED halo

A full-colour LED strip set flush in a 16 mm groove behind a silicone diffuser. One clean line of light, no visible dots.

3Leap Motion tracker

Sits in the stem and looks up into the ring, tracking hands and fingers inside the Ø387 mm opening.

4Aluminium tube mount

The stem slides 75 mm over a Ø45 mm tube, so the ring stands on a floor base, a plinth or a wall arm.

Where it goes

Wherever touching is the problem.

Touch-free control keeps screens clean, works for every height and turns a simple menu into a moment people remember.

Museums

Browse archives, spin artefacts and page through stories without touching a screen.

Games

Steer, fly and fight with your hand. The halo shows score, time and hits.

Configurators

Turn a car, swap colours and zoom into details on a big screen or LED wall.

Light & sound

Conduct music, paint with light or mix a soundscape by moving your hands.

Made to measure

Any size. Any colour. One platform.

Like every BoraBora product, the Gesture Ring is built to order and plugs into the same realtime platform as our RFID readers. Need something that does not exist yet? That is custom manufacturing.

Size

Scaled to the space

From a tabletop ring to a walk-up portal. The opening, depth and stand height are set per project.

Finish

Your colours

Printed in any colour and finish, with the halo's colours and animations matched to your brand.

Platform

Live over MQTT

Hand data and gesture events stream to your show control in real time. Configure and update remotely.

Specifications

The numbers.

Standard build, from the production drawing. Custom sizes change the ring; the sensor and lighting stay the same.

Ring · standard

Outer diameterØ447 mm
Clear openingØ387 mm
Depth55 mm
Stem55 mm wide
MountØ45 alu tube · 75 mm socket
MaterialSLS print, resin infiltrated

Sensing & light

Hand trackingLeap Motion, in the stem
TracksBoth hands · all fingers
LightingFull-colour LED strip
DiffuserSilicone, flush in 16 mm groove
IntegrationMQTT · show control
Made to measureSize, colour, stand
Stop watching. Start doing.

Give your guests a hand.

Tell us what people should control and where the ring will stand. We'll come back with a size, a finish and a prototype plan.

info@studioborabora.com · Cologne · Hamburg · Barcelona