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A new form of wrist-mounted sensor might take the place of an entire multitude of existing controllers, with researches showing off a 3D gesture control system managed by little wrist sensor that tracks your hand and finger movements.
The tool, developed by teams at Newcastle University and Microsoft Research Cambridge, continuously tracks the movement of your hand in 3D, meaning you’re able to grab, rotate, press and zoom things using natural hand and finger movements.
One solution lets you control a TV or games console (with the latter using “pointy fingers” as a gun!) without needing a line of sight to the device, plus it might let users answer their phones while they’re still in their pockets, or even take the place of a mouse, with users pointing their fingers about to control a pointer.
Plus it looks like it’ll be well handy for pretending to be Spider-Man. [Newcastle University via Telegraph]
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They’re going to have to make it a bit smaller, but other than that looks brilliant.
They could make it look like a watch and even function as one too, but with added 3D controlling awesomeness.
It’s a year for the underdogs of tech so these look like a winner
I always think that things like this would be liable to ‘accidental’ use, just like Alec Baldwin ‘demoing’ the voice activated television in 30 Rock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg2hepCGIGU
So in GTA you’ll be able to actually fondle a hooker? Or, if you’ve fallen on hard times and are forced to work the streets as a rent boy, you can give those ‘Johns’ the most vigorous hand jobs they’ve ever had.
Wrist mounted? Leap Motion comes out in 2 months and doesn’t need you to wear anything and yet still remains accurate to 1/100th of a mm.
Yes, as long as your are positioned in a specific cube in 3D space. If you move your hand out of that area it stops tracking you.
This allows you to move about at will and not have that restriction.
Different solutions for different tasks.