The funding (led by existing investor Founders Fund, and Highland Capital Partners) will serve to scale manufacturing as the company prepares for the retail launch of the Leap Motion controller in the coming quarter.

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Motion capture can only feature three or fewer people at a time, so for the more complex fight sequences which will feature a cast of thousands, motion-capture data will be combined and special effects employed, to create a full-scale battlefield.

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