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Microsoft's Hand-Gesture Sensor Bracelet
another random user tips this quote from the BBC:
"A wrist-worn sensor that creates 3D-models of the user's hand movements in real-time has been built by Microsoft. The Digits prototype is part of an effort to create a mobile device that would allow its owner to control a range of equipment using hand gestures. The firm said it could be used as a virtual TV control, a way to operate a smartphone while it is in the user's pocket, and to play video games. It is designed to be less cumbersome and uncomfortable than sensor gloves. However, some experts question whether consumers would want to wear such a device during their day-to-day activities."
ACM has the research paper (PDF) describing this device and its use.
However, some experts question whether consumers would want to wear such a device during their day-to-day activities.
If you showed those same "experts" the bulky brick style cell phones lots of people carried in the mid-90's, they'd probably also question whether anyone would bother to lug such a thing around, while doing their day-to-day activities. Especially since all they did was take phone calls. But hey, if you can't make something cool, piss on what somebody else is doing, right?
A Ring would be so much better. One ring to rule all my appliances,
because this is one technology i don't want to spread. just like amazon saved us all from one-click asshatery on every website if this is patented it could save us all from dorky techno bracelets.
Like people who do the bluetooth headset thing while walking down the street don't look like tools as it is. Let's just throw in hand gestures for good measure! Yay society!
P.S. How on earth are we going to separate the crazies from people who are just on the phone now?!! :)
AirSpeak - http://itunes.com/apps/AirSpeak
as it would be interesting to confirm if he's a bigger user of his right hand as I think he is....
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File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
A wrist-worn sensor that [...will] allow its owner to control a range of equipment using hand gestures.
Well, there goes the rest of what I laughingly refer to as my "life". At least I'll die with a smile on my face. Kind of.
That "bracelet" is definitely going to get in the way, although it may help cure my carpel tunnel.
Oh, c'mon. You thought it too.
Please do not read this sig. Thank you.
Take a close look at the 2 images. The CGI doesn't match the finger position.
Marketing fail
I just took it to the next level.
Has no one else thought of sign language recognition as the main useful application for this technology?
It could be faster and more natural than typing to ever hearing people!
My question is, does it under the famed "three finger salute", or would just holding up a middle finger accomplish the same result in Windows?
Just you wait, you'll be surprised what kinds of technology those things control.
Does it under the famed "three finger salute", or would just holding up a middle finger accomplish the same result in Windows?
bulky brick style cell phones lots of people carried in the mid-90's
I worked in a store that sold those phones and nobody ever actually carried them. 90% of the time they were a car phone.
I can tell you from experience that motion controls like this item (and even Kinect) are just fads that will never find productive uses.
....the droids you're looking for.
UGLY...GORILLA
UGLY...GORILLA
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
This thing is HARD CODED. Just look at pictures at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19884218
every gesture is "recognized", but 3D model doesnt fit real hand.
Finger movements are not recreated, there is no 3D model recreation. This is M$ so Im guessing learned NN recognizing few patterns and pretending to be magic.
Just like Kinect games that promise movement tracking, but end up recognizing 2 hard coded gestures (or dont use cameras at all and you feel scammed for buying $200 Mass Effect microphone).
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
even the "experts" apparently aren't reading TFA.
He added that the prototype had been built using existing off-the-shelf components, but there was scope to improve the equipment with customised parts.
"Ultimately we would like to reduce Digits to the size of a watch that can be worn all the time," he said.
Lots of people wear watches all the time - so when they can get it down to watch size (not if, when, given the way miniaturization of computers, cameras, etc. has progressed), I don't see any reason to suppose that people would find wearing a gesture sensor to be a burden.
And, for that matter, since the actual workings of a digital watch are tiny now, the gesture sensor could also be a watch.
Build sensor arrays where needed, no Micro$oft jewelry required...
I just hope we get holograms soon enough to be able to use leap motion sensors with them.
Who would EVER want to wear some kind of useful device on their WRIST? That's just crazy talk!
How DARE Micro$oft invent something without checking with Apple first. How are they still in business??
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It looks like you're masturbating. Would you like help?
It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.
There are already gesture sensors on the market that can be embedded in products that do not require the user to wear anything on their hands in order to be recognized.
...Exactly. People talking too loud on their phones may be annoying, but at least none of them have tried to poke my eye out (at least, not since they got rid of the phones with the little antennas...).
This have the same problems than speech recognition, you say/do something that is not meant for the computer/program, and it does something that you don't mean to do. At least in Star Trek they had the "Computer" prefix in phrases meant for the computer, but adding a prefix for gestures could make their use more complex.
And, of course, doing it in public will have the problem when people is not the intended target for the gesture/speech, and if well you could use low volume (or subvocalization?) in voice, gestures should be broad enough to be able to tell them apart from i.e. casual changes of position. And innocent gestures for one culture could be very offensive for others.
A new meaning for "Embrace, extend, extinguish" ?
"I see you are making a gang sign inappropriate for this part of Oakland. Would you like me to calculate a quick route out of this neighborhood?"
[Loading Apple Maps ....]
Have gnu, will travel.
Bring back the Nintendo Power Glove!
Why not build it into a wristwatch?
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Wow, way to put that arrow in the dirt about 30ft short.
The kinect has already been used in a crazy array of stuff Microsoft didn't even imagine, and this is obviously a prototype that you could pack into a much smaller device... already making it far more useful than it appears now, in a photo, to someone with zero imagination.
But do try again on the next one.
Leonard Nimoy should be a rich man.
In the second episode of the original Star Trek series ("The Man Trap",1966), Spock is standing next to the main view screen on the bridge of the Enterprise and uses a hand-swipe gesture ("slicing" his hand from right to left at waist level) to change the image on the main view screen.
This predates both Kinect-based systems and touchpad gesture systems by about 35 years.
I wonder if any of that has been brought up in all these lawsuits brought by Nokia, Microsoft, Samsung and Apple regarding those technologies.
The first thing I thought of when I saw this is the Mass Effect omni tool. Always wanted one of those.
In Google we trust.
Vouge. Let your body go with the flow. Don't just stand there, let's get to it Strike a pose, there's nothing to it.
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Stirring hot grits motion?
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
User gestures middle finger, device initiates silent IP voice feed to NSA.
It takes surprisingly little time to go from "holy crap is this thing heavy" to not even noticing it. http://mannypacquiaovsmarquezlive.com/