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Full Body Dance Dance Revolution

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-this-will-only-make-me-look-more-dumb dept.

tasty_beanburger writes "NewScientistTech has a story about a full body version of Dance Dance Revolution. It uses vision recognition to award points after assessing a player's ability to correctly mimic silhouetted dance shapes. Check out the video clip of it being demoed at SIGGRAPH 2006."

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  1. Translate Sign Language by neonprimetime · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The researchers believe the system could have more practical applications in the future. They say it could be used to automatically translate sign language, for example

    Yes, if this technology exists, and slips out into mainstream, they better put it into more practical uses than DDD.

  2. No fat kids by sensei85 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does this mean that the fat kid who lives at the arcade and plays 3+ hours of DDR every day yet never loses weight isn't going to be able to play DDD, because his silhouette can't possibly match up with the figures on the screen? I think that's unfair. Give sweaty headband kid a chance!