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Air Guitar That Actually Plays!
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."
Why does strumming frantically produce hammer-ons? If im using hammer-ons and pull offs i have to strum less not more.
To be honest in the hands of novices you could just play a random pre-recorded solo and they probably wouldnt know the difference and in the hands of someone who can play....why???
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How can it distinguish the different chords? TFA only mentions two orange blobs (the two hands), but they don't say anything about how to recognize when the different strings are pressed.
Face it, folks. Linux is a general purpose operating system on which you can do all of the expected things that one can do with such. We are WELL past the time where you can do basic things, like program and use webcams, on Linux, and nobody reading slashdot really needs to be fluffed further in this respect.
As far as this story goes, unless the inventors did something that could more or less only have been done on linux, then the linux aspect of this story is irrelevant.
when I play air guitar the traditional way it sounds good.
This new way might sound somewhat like how my actual guitar playing sounds: like crap.
More seriously, now that technology is this good, and we have things like this and the new Nintendo controller, maybe it's time for Nintendo (or someone else) to bring back the Power Glove for games and other computer stuff.
It doesn't. I tried it last summer in the science park, it's really just the two orange blobs. You can produce vaguely electric-guitar-like sounds but not play an actual song.
There's also drums with the same tech.
My niece also tested both; she abandoned the guitar pretty quickly and kept returning to the drums. I'll trust the judgement of a six-year-old on this one.
If you can play it 'just like a guitar' - why not just buy a guitar?
Is there some weird aversion to strings that people have?
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
in 1992 i saw a demonstration of air drums running on an amiga with a camera and a frame grabber...
as usual, it took a decade for peecees to match the fabulous amiga of lore
What ? Me, worry ?
Is it just me or is all the "linux bias" way outdone by all the "they mentioned linux, it must be biased" (as if linux should be shunned and be the operating system that should not be named) or the "oh no, this is pro-linux slashdot is biased, slashdot only likes linux" and "wow, this is pro-microsoft, I can't believe I found it in slashdot because slashdot is so pro-linux" comments. The article isn't even about linux, linux is just the system the thing was made on. Would you rather them lie and say this was designed for Windows?
>The real story is:
... just using linux instead.
>you + webcam input + gesture recognition + musical interpretation + physical sound model = rock'n'roll!
Kinda like what you can already do with the Eye-toy thing for Playstation 2 really