03.30.2007 WHO NEEDS WIIMOTES? USE YOUR HANDS

Using a $30 dollar camera and this piece of Podtech software that's still in development, you can play with computers just like Tom Cruise did in Minority Report, by grabbing files by the nipples and dragging them around the screen. Using topological depth technology, it figures out what's the static background, and differentiates it between the changing foreground. By pinching areas within the camera's view you section off ovals which you can use to rotate and move around the display, and the researcher said more gestures are being worked on. What you're looking at is basically an advanced, but limited, version of Eye Toy in disguise, but think about how many games you could use this technology with. Waving to other people on PlayStation Home, pointing soldiers around the battlefield, clicking on enemies in W.O.W., literally grabbing Pikmin on screen and throwing them around, giving a last boss the finger before delivering the final blow, and of course, grabbing boobs.

Expect Microsoft to use this technology to jump into the motion sensitivity scene late (even though they had it first with a failed controller years ago). Instead of a knock-off Wiimote they'll just let you do it with your hands by inserting a chip in your wrist. I always knew Bill Gates would beat everyone else to the 'mark of the beast' technology and prove that he's the devil. 

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03/30/2007 20:05
Wow. That guy really sucks at making things interesting. Talk about making potentially groundbreaking technology look boring and fucking stupid.
 
03/30/2007 20:28
Nikko says
"Talk about making potentially groundbreaking technology look boring and fucking stupid." you could have sumed that whole sentence up with one word - Microsoft
 
03/31/2007 21:49
D-Chap says
Well the genius's (did I spell that right? I'm obviously not one) of the world that create the interesting computer technology usually have the charisma of a brick. Nonetheless, this new technolojy has peaked my intrist...
 
04/02/2007 15:36
tommyharding says
I found this guy interesting, not all programmers are.
 
04/19/2007 23:16
noomsh says
http://www.tmema.org/mis/

i know this is very late on in the day to be posting comments .. but still.
if you find the guy above interesting you should really check out Golan Levins' manual input sessions at the above adress .. he was using a very similar idea to create experimental musical performances 3 years ago.. check out the videos at the bottom of the page ... if the fawning little weasel (interviewer )had seen them he would have popped.
 

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