Touchless Music Game Spotted

Touchless Music Game Spotted The Kinect has been proven to be one of the mainstays at NYU’s ITP Winter Show, where many projects happened to be built with the Kinect as the main center of focus. Max Ma’s Touchless that was constructed with plenty of help from Tony Lim, came with a Kinect at first, but in the final iteration, it used an OEM equivalent in order to reap the results that the creators envisioned. Basically, Touchless will feature a bunch of cameras that will work in tandem with sensors so that they will be able to track the different segments of your face, keeping track of muscle twitches as well as eyebrow raises before “translating” them into raw data.

Such data would be able to be harnessed in a wide range of applications, including the ability to unlock your door with the right combination of winks and blinks, but the main focus of Max’s creation would be to deliver music without any kind of finger or hand interaction, hence the name of the project, Touchless. This sensor can tracks anywhere from 16 to 64 points, with the latter happening under more ideal conditions, allowing you to stick your tongue out, I suppose, and create the next great sonata.

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    Elliptic Labs develops touchless gesture control for Windows 8, assuages our fear of fingerprints (video)

    Elliptics Labs develops touchless gesture control for Windows 8, assuages our fear of fingerprints

    The rise of touchscreen Windows 8 PCs isn’t a happy occasion for anyone who’s been carefully keeping PC screens clean: years of slapping wayward hands have been undermined by an interface that practically begs us to smudge up the display. While we suspect it’s really aiming for ease of use, Elliptic Labs may have heard that subliminal cry for cleanliness while producing its new Windows 8 Gesture Suite, a touchless control system built for a very touch-focused platform. The company’s newest take on ultrasound control can pick up 3D hand motions near the display and invoke all of Windows 8’s edge swipes and scrolling without the extra effort (or grease) of putting skin to screen. The method doesn’t need a one-to-one map of the screen and can work even in pitch darkness, which leaves adoption mostly dependent on hardware support rather than any wary users — despite immediate availability for the SDK, PCs need extra microphones and transducers to drop the touch layer. If computers with the Gesture Suite arrive in the hoped-for 12 to 14 months, though, we can get back to obsessing over a fingerprint-free LCD while saving some physical strain in the process.

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