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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."

7 of 228 comments (clear)

  1. Dude! by Somethingsomethingw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most excellent!

    air guitar

  2. Missing the point by amliebsch · · Score: 5, Funny

    The real story here is that they got a Webcam AND a sound card working under Linux...on the same box.

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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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  3. Next... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next, an imaginary audience that actually applauds.

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  4. In a nutshell... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    In a nutshell it is a Linux PC with a sound card and webcam.
    A Linux PC in a nutshell? Brilliant!
  5. Perfect... by JonN · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...now all I need is an air mic for the shower and I can start my album

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  6. Great! by waif69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I won't just look stupid, I'll sound stupid too!