Canesta TV Gesture User Interface Demo

[FlumenSanctiViti]

Well now, this is something Stephen Hawking will never be able to use! :/

[mirkojax]

There is nothing wrong with the the remote control! They need to change the TV channel interface.

[moooooonch]

this stuff requires a sensor/camera to register your movements... since decades ago, communication studies had been investigating on how to watch and control people. With this new stuff is easier for those bad guys in the other side of tv, advertising and brain wash!! .... call me crazy :|

but they don't create awesome tech stuff just for your comfy... THEY LUV POWAR!!

^^ human is weird

[TillBa]

Pretty nice stuff guys! I'm excited about seeing an actual product.

Maybe you can also grab some ideas from our Proxemic Media Player application (search for "Proxemic Interactions")

[Virginityrocks]

I just hate IR remotes... All remotes should be bluetooth in this day and age. I hate being forced to point the remote in any particular direction. If my couch is perpendicular to the TV, I'm under a blanket, I have the remote at my side. I should just have to press the button. I shouldn't have to get up, move my arm, point at the TV just so that it can see a 70 year old IR blinking light technology. This is getting ridiculous. END THIS INFRA-RED BULLSHIT.

[TheLatinoKingz]

HAHAHA MAKES YOU MOVE YOUR HAND LIKE A DICTATOR!

[MaltrophsTiTAN]

wall of icons wont do it for me.

why to much trouble to look through

[ghost2ber]

So you have to wave at it first to ready it, then do these wave gestures and push forward to select? Sorry but regular nav buttons or a mouse pointer work just fine, I highly doubt this will replace them... perhaps as a novelty, but not all together. And think about having to do something like turning subtitles on/off or changing the audio track on a DVD, isn't easier to just have a button. Buttons work fine!!! I can see something like a remote with mouse pointer working, but not this.

[TroyOi]

This is going to bring a whole new dimension to fighting over the remote.

[blackdevil4589]

they are working with microsoft on project Natal now!

[jinxdone]

Looks quite cumbersome. Probably applications designed for this just end up having lots of menus / selection screens with just a few possible actions each.

[fartybumholes]

My PS3 Blu-ray remote or DUALSHOCK 3 uses bluetooth so there's never any struggling with infra-red (IR) line-of-sight, the button switches and software interface are responsive.

This wavy hand control can't take inputs as quickly or clearly as that. Even with IR, well-made tv remotes and software interfaces are more responsive than camera-body pickup systems.

[Canesta3D]

First, the concept here is showing how natural user interfaces can do certain things better - browsing 1000 channels, for example. Turning the volume up and down, I would just use the remote if it was handy, but it would be nice if there was a gesture for that too.

As far as confusing the system, the user 'wakes' up the gesture engine by a specific wave gesture of the hand, not just any hand motion: from that point on, the other specific gesture are recognized, otherwise they are ignored.

[SpyengoEen]

@Canesta3D

I work on a bachelor thesis about implementing motion tracking in assembly lines. Would it be possible to purchase Canestavision chips and/or cameras and to program it for a specific application? Or can they only be used in predefined applications like the TV Gesture User Interface?

[priyendus]

@Canesta3D Is this plans to make Canesta3D camera OpenNI compatable ?

[mbkfox]

How do you change the volume, give it the finger?

Seriously, how many different hand motions can replace allthose buttons on my remote. And what if I'm working out to a work out show, will it accidentaily change the channel? And what if I'm really getting into a sporting match and I wave my hands in the air, the channel changes? And what if I'm fghting with my friend over who watches what, we both wave like lunatics? And what if I wave to Grandma as I'm watching TV, channel changes? I duno...

[silentmax]

throw out your remotes this is the future of channel surfing