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Giving Your Computer Interface the Finger
moon_unit2 writes "Tech Review has a story about a startup that's developed software capable of tracking not just hand movements but precise finger gestures. The setupm from 3Gear, requires two depth-sensing cameras (aka Kinects) at the top corners of your display. Then simply give your computer thumbs up — or whatever other gesture you might feel like — and it'll know what you're doing. The software is available for free while the product is in beta testing, if you want to give it a try."
Now that the computer overloards can measure how messy my desk is I better make the place look respectible!
Does this mean I need to dress up to use my computer now?
This would be really interesting interface if it had a library of American Sign Language gestures and fingerspelling capabilities.
For some reason my fountain pen doesn't work here.
When I'm viewing porn, the cursor will just be going all over the place.
Leap has a system coming in December that does this.
not want a camera pointed at you just to use the computer?
Every time I use a keypad, touchscreen, or other computerized device outside of my own desktop or laptop, I use my longest finger as my pointing finger. This is a habit I picked up my father, who is a longtime computer engineer.
He and I both find that using the longest finger to control such devices is very cathartic.
You should turn signatures off.
...an immersion environment using a couple projectors behind you and the kinect sensors in front of you (like, in the corners of the room).
I had a portable projector setup at one point, for the ubergeeky flightsim pilot in me, which ran off of three laptops and two projectors, onto a pair of screens set at right angles to each other: I would be sat or stood at the midpoint of the hypoteneuse to get fairly brilliant very large and almost completely immersive FS experience. Also worked on Unreal Tournament and Quake. It's not quite the same on a pair of 15" Dell panels (yeah, tried it).
This could actually be the precursor to the Minority Report type interface, but without the glove. Yep, I'd like that.
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
This would be something that I would assume the deaf would have a leg up on everyone.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
What happens when I wave my wang at it. Could have interesting uses in the pr0n industry.
Silence is a state of mime.
Finally we can play Strategema without those annoying finger cups. Kolrami is going DOWN this time!
Why pay $300 for two Kinect cameras when Leap Motion already has this covered at $70
I picked up an optical touchscreen a while back. It was nifty and kinda gimmicky. Then my cat figure out that she could mess with the computer with her tail when I was grabbing a drink or in another room. Now the touchscreen USB cable is left unplugged. I foresee this having the same issue.
I know nobody cares, but people here should care because we are smart and can get things right.
Kinects are not the only depth-sensing cameras in the market, and therefore the phrase "aka Kinects" is incorrect. You should instead say "e.g. Kinects."
Since nobody is going to read this anyway I won't bother to explain why. But if you don't want to appear stupid before those who actually understand English semantics, look it up.
So can I have my keyboard-less-keyboard now please?
It will not work. The lowest energy input, most precise and fastest controller wins in the end - ultimately some mind control. That is why these Kinect alike devices are fad and not mainstay controllers, you need lots of energy to do even simple things with them and it is often not precise, not fast. The old simple press of a button or an analog stick is way more convenient, speedier and comfortable. In this dark age of manual computer control, that we live in, the precise mice and the fast and dependable keyboard is yet to be beaten.
I know what you mean, it's a shame that keyboard only work for English.
An American company can program it for Americans, and everyone else can program it for themselves.
I think that in-air gesture recognition needs to be integrated with eye tracking so that the computer can map hand to screen object from the user's line of sight to the screen.
Otherwise, there always needs to be a "pointer" of some kind, a proxy, like a virtual hand or pen on the screen.
It does not need to be a fancy type of eye tracking that detects where your gaze is. It only needs to locate where the eyes are in space.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
I am at the computer for my job 16+ hours a day
Get another job then.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
i wonder if it will be able to see the type of finger gesture, like if you flick the computer off in a joking way over some small frustration, it will be able to differentiate between that and a truly angry flick.
> Giving Your Computer Interface the Finger
Several weeks down the road:
Statistics Report
Gesture Classification
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0.0003% Giving The Finger
14.27% Using the mouse
23.42% Using the keyboard
62.28% Scratching vigorously
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The accuracy might be good, but how accurately can you actually use this...?
Try putting your fingertip on a small item, did you get it right first time? Now try this when you cannot feel the object, and cannot see it in relation to your hand ?
Roll on the holographic display version of this ....
Puteulanus fenestra mortis
Get another job then.
I'm not sure he really has the time to take on even more work.