Canesta TV Gesture User Interface Demo

Tired of browsing 500-1000 channels of content 6 lines of text at a time, wearing out that button on the remote? Browse a wall of content as fast or slow as you want, using our demo built with Cool Iris (CoolIris,com) software and one or our Canesta 3D Image Sensors.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• canesta
• 3D
• Image
• sensor
• 3DV
• Primesense
• gesture
• control
• gesturetek

[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.

[TheLatinoKingz]

HAHAHA MAKES YOU MOVE YOUR HAND LIKE A DICTATOR!

[TroyOi]

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

[priyendus]

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

[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.

[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?

[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.