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Air Guitar That Actually Plays!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the way-more-than-the-3-chords-i-know dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist has a nice feature of a real air guitar developed by a three students at the Helsinki University of Technology. In a nutshell it is a Linux PC with a sound card and webcam."

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  1. Re:Missing the point by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://airguitar.tml.hut.fi.nyud.net:8090/tech.htm l

    The real story is:
    you + webcam input + gesture recognition + musical interpretation + physical sound model = rock'n'roll!

    I'm not even going to try and give you the Soviet Russian version of that.

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  2. Mac Isight by olddotter · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are some games and sound software that do similar things on the Mac using the isight. I soon expect to see the user interface from Minority Report in operation on one of the more enlightened operations systems (read: non-microsoft).

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  3. Re:Slightly easier to build... by XorNand · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ah yes... to hear one of the few "theremin solos" that exist in popular music, check out LedZep's "Whole Lotta Love".

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  4. I guess that takes out Air Guitar USA by grungebox · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Air Guitar Championship is a very real contest. This invention just cheapens the craft, the artistry, the beauty, of air guitar. Check out the video on that link, btw.

  5. Re:Next... by pipingguy · · Score: 2, Informative


    Isn't that what laugh tracks are for?

  6. Mirrordot link for the video by rbarreira · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mirrordot video link

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  7. Re:Dude! by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most excellent!

    "Most Old" is more like it. His approach is new, but the VR community has had this working for a LONG time. As described in the book "VR Construction Kit" (probably out of print, I'm too lazy to check) positional gloves with finger sensors (e.g. The PowerGlove) were originally invented by a fellow who wanted an air guitar that would work. After a bit of finagling with the electronics, he came up with gloves containing Piezo-electric strips that could detect finger position. Thus the first "air guitar that works" was born. ;-)

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  8. no, Beach Boys didn't use a theremin by r00t · · Score: 2, Informative

    They used something unrelated, with the highly misleading name of Electrotheremin.

    It's a fairly normal keyboard, with one extra feature. There is a ring below the keys that you can slide left or right with your finger. This let you drastically adjust the tuning. The keys are played normally, with the slide ring redefining the whole lot of them as desired.