eyeSight pioneers gesture controls using just a webcam

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What if you could use your existing laptop webcam as detector for 3D gesture control? With eyeSight, that’s exactly the goal.

The new technology, which is 100 percent software-based, allows a standard camera to detect depth and track motion in 3D, allowing for a measure of gesture controls for which you’d normally require additional hardware.

Kinect on the cheap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmPYAPB1D2M

From the looks of the demo video above, the control isn’t as precise or responsive as, say, Leap Motion – but then what did you expect? This is all using hardware that you already have.

[Via Engadget]

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