With the incoming oculus rift support, how about adding support for 10 independent cursors in case of someone... builds... interface gloves?

Nothing fancy, just some pieces in the code preparing the interface for additional pointers witch just have no input source.

It would be awesome to be able to control your fleet with your hands, even if the hardware isnt there yet.
Imagine it: holotank like fleet control

(Yeah, yeah, another crazy idea xD)

To further reinforce my idea i share something that would make it possible...

https://www.thalmic.com/

Cornflakes_91 wrote:To further reinforce my idea i share something that would make it possible...

https://www.thalmic.com/

That's a neat gadget Cornflakes. It has the advantage of being useful outside of gaming which gives it bonus points.

I was just doing some research on touchless gestural control for data manipulation interfaces.

If anyone has proposed a standard set of gestures -- point, swipe, spread, pinch, rotate, etc. -- for the general manipulation of data (i.e., not to control some specific smartphone), I can't find it so far. But the Thalmic link was pretty close, and they do have a dev kit.

On a related note, someone has an open-source GitHub project called D3 for manipulating HTML documents based on hand gesture recognition: https://github.com/arunganesan/hand-ges ... /master/d3 . That might be a useful interface in between data and sensors; the representation of that data and how it changes based on gestural input might be close to what Josh has shown.

Unfortunately I think specific standard gestures are patented. I am not sure to what extent the patent covers these; are they only specifically for a certain brand of smartphone or are they universal?

TanC wrote:Unfortunately I think specific standard gestures are patented. I am not sure to what extent the patent covers these; are they only specifically for a certain brand of smartphone or are they universal?

That could be circumvented by having the software letting you "rebind" the gestures.

TanC wrote:Unfortunately I think specific standard gestures are patented. I am not sure to what extent the patent covers these; are they only specifically for a certain brand of smartphone or are they universal?

This is why I'm for copyright/patent reform. What's next? Arrow keys being patented? Wait, don't tell me if it is.

Katorone wrote:That could be circumvented by having the software letting you "rebind" the gestures.

The "moves" editor from Die by the Sword. =)

i've done a bit of reading on the MYO and found a FAQ i havent seen until now.

i dont think that the MYO would be suitable for what i had in mind, as it only interprets gestures as whole and not individual muscle movements as i thought.

so it can only interpret "fist" "hand flat" or so and not track individual fingers.


TrackVR can track individual movements, so it would be more suited for what i had in mind ^^