To get finer shots from a swaying helicopter Segal modified his 360-degree panoramic cameras to spin two revolutions per second, creating a gyro effect whose centripetal force stabilizes the lens.

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The two spacecraft were travelling at a velocity of 1.7km per second and came in at very shallow angles of a degree-and-a-half.

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The Leap Motion controller has a 150-degree field of view, and tracks individual hands and all 10 fingers at up to 290 frames per second.

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