The first Leap Motion controllers were jet-black with a glowing blue tron-stripe. Why? Because it was fucking cool! We even sent photos to our investors. They agreed. It was *fucking cool*. Then @mbuckwald came to me & said "We have to scrap this". I was CRUSHED! (pt. 1)

@mbuckwald said "Putting a glowing blue tron-stripe on a 3d motion sensor is like putting a race stripe on a rocketship or the Starship Enterprise. We get it. It's a spaceship. Its fast. What we're building is already so futuristic our challenge must be to make it feel normal."

In many ways, this mantra has become the defining aesthetic of our age, and I think it's something VR & AR must still aspire to. The goal isn't to make technology seem like it's part of the future, the goal is to make technology seem like it's part of today.