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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.
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.
Why pay $300 for two Kinect cameras when Leap Motion already has this covered at $70