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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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    [Fuck Beta]
    o0t!