wraggster
January 22nd, 2008, 20:10
Gesture interaction is looking to be one of the next big technologies. All of a sudden it seems to be popping up everywhere, with both Synaptics and the Macbook Air sporting multitouch enabled touchpads. This project from Cynergy Labs is a sort of a mashup of Microsoft Surface with a touchless IR gesture recognition system, based on a Wii sensor and infrared-emitting gloves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoJGrtVs4c
It’s pretty cool for being developed in eight days, but I’d almost prefer something like this, since it offers the same sort of functionality without having to wear gloves.
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/01/22/cynergy-labs-microsoft-surface-without-the-surface/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoJGrtVs4c
It’s pretty cool for being developed in eight days, but I’d almost prefer something like this, since it offers the same sort of functionality without having to wear gloves.
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/01/22/cynergy-labs-microsoft-surface-without-the-surface/