Saturday, January 26, 2008

1/26/2008 - Cynergy Labs: Project Maestro

It looks like somebody took Johnny Lee's idea of using the Wii remote as a finger tracking device and really running with it to create an interface that's even closer to the Minority Report experience. It looks like the difference here is adding functionality to the glove to make a left mouse-click action when you pinch two fingers together and perhaps a right-click action when you pinch three fingers together. The result is being able to do click-and-drag type operations with two mouse cursors. Of course, you're not using a mouse on a surface. You're just waving your hands around in mid-air like a conductor. Again, I don't know if this would really be practical in real life, but it's undeniably cool.

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