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We demonstrate real-time tracking of the 3-D pose and configuration of the hand for gestural user-input and desktop virtual reality. The only components of our system are a cloth glove and a webcam.
Real-time hand-tracking with a color glove
Robert Y. Wang and Jovan Popović
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Remember how Tom Cruise’s character in Minority Report was able to interact with a computer using gloves? MIT student Robert Wang has developed something similar.
Other prototypes of low-cost gestural interfaces have used reflective or colored tape attached to the fingertips, but “that’s 2-D information,” says Robert Wang, a graduate student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who developed the new system together with Jovan Popovi?, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science. “You’re only getting the fingertips; you don’t even know which fingertip [the tape] is corresponding to.” Wang and Popovi?’s system, by contrast, can translate gestures made with a gloved hand into the corresponding gestures of a 3-D model of the hand on screen, with almost no lag time. “This actually gets the 3-D configuration of your hand and your fingers,” Wang says. “We get how your fingers are flexing.”
The most obvious application of the technology, Wang says, would be in video games: Gamers navigating a virtual world could pick up and wield objects simply by using hand gestures. But Wang also imagines that engineers and designers could use the system to more easily and intuitively manipulate 3-D models of commercial products or large civic structures.
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lucky760says...self-*promote (in the hopes this will earn me my diamond )
siftbotsays...Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, May 21st, 2010 12:27pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter lucky760.
joedirtsays...this should be in a pron category because that is the inevitable application of this technology.
kurtdhsays...This is one of those videos you watch in 20 years and laugh at how ridiculously simplistic and childish the technology is.
mgittlesays...The mouse has been the primary GUI manipulation tool for a really goddamn long time. /captainobvious
ravermansays...Cool technology. just... can we use a primary color palette that doesn't look like it was vomited up from the early 90's?
arghnesssays...>> ^raverman:
Cool technology. just... can we use a primary color palette that doesn't look like it was vomited up from the early 90's?
That's what Apple will do, then claim that they're innovative.
Mandtissays...*length=55
siftbotsays...The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 55 secs - length declared by Mandtis.
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