Re:Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestur...
by intended on Monday March 12, 2012 @03:10AM
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One of the few occasions that I wish I had a mac.
Few questions: Aren't you entering a field which has patents covering gesture controls on media exactly like this?
A comparative advantage of mice and keyboards is that a minor amount of energy, (but large amounts of co-ordination) are leveraged into larger changes.
Wont this limit the number of the gesture controls you can incorporate?
(OTOH - if you had enough fidelity, you would just need a dummy keyboard. You would just have to map finger movements with key presses. you could just create a webcam of your own as well.)
Few questions: Aren't you entering a field which has patents covering gesture controls on media exactly like this?
A comparative advantage of mice and keyboards is that a minor amount of energy, (but large amounts of co-ordination) are leveraged into larger changes. Wont this limit the number of the gesture controls you can incorporate?
(OTOH - if you had enough fidelity, you would just need a dummy keyboard. You would just have to map finger movements with key presses. you could just create a webcam of your own as well.)