Teemu Mäki-Patola - Virtual Air Guitar, 2005

The Virtual Air Guitar is a project developed at the Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory and the Acoustics Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology, and was finished in March 2005. It is an entertainment device that lets users have fun in the spirit of air guitar. It is not an expressive instrument that you need to spend years learning how to play. Anyone can play air guitar, so everyone is able to play the Virtual Air Guitar as well. All you need is a pair of orange gloves and a rock'n'roll attitude. The goal is to provide people without musical skills the chance to experience the fun of playing and creating music, and to expand their concept of listening music to experiencing it.

The Virtual Air Guitar consists of several pieces of software. The user's actions are read by the input device, such as a webcam, and passed through gesture recognition. A musical intelligence module interprets these gestures and sends commands to the sound model, which produces the final sound. The mapping of the user's gestures into sound model controls is very complex, making the sound model itself totally invisible - the user does not need to know anything about it to play.
More info:
http://airguitar.tml.hut.fi/whatis.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• interface
• music
• design
• air
• hand
• tracking
• invisible

[tubechango]

i saw this device in the expo of helsinki intruments at mutec in mexico