gizmodo.com — GestPoint has some cool gesture recognition going on with two of the upcoming Xbox 360 Eye-Toy cameras. Using two instead of one, they can detect motion in 3d space. Using your finger or other body part, you can direct a sword or other objects on the screen up, down, left, right, in, and out. The fun part is the in and out.
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greyareaMay 11, 2006
Wouldn't that be for ESC ZZ ?:wq would be the finger-to-thumb 'ok' sign.
quambMay 11, 2006
You've got to be kidding me.What do all these companies do? Seriously. No innovation, all imitation.
vostekMay 11, 2006
yeah and the response of the ps3 controller looked dreadful, but not nearly as bad as this 360 camera
adharrisMay 11, 2006
How do the two cameras know how far apart they are from each other? Triangulating points in space like that only works if you know how far apart the two cameras are. Unless this is using some other way of pinpointing distances other then just measuring the angles from 2 different points, it sounds like it will be a pain to configure correctly.
nexusMay 11, 2006
what about us lefties? We are the creative ones!
nexusMay 11, 2006
I could care less about using this on an xbox. If microsoft wants to be inovative let me plug 5-10 webcams to my pc and write a program tied to windows so i can do a really interactive computing experience. dont forget that each webcam would have a usb microphone built in (the logitech ones of course ;) and then i can even use them as one big array microphone. goodbye mouse and keyboard.
etx313May 11, 2006
This post just gave me Deja vu. very weird.
morphine7399Jun 27, 2006
I think most geeks already have a "sculptural right arm" or wrist at that.