Forget about the mouse, use your hands with the ZCam from 3DV
By Jose Andrade 
posted Jan 8th 2008 6:10AM
posted Jan 8th 2008 6:10AM
[Vía Engadget ES]
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Sounds amazing.
however, a video would help to get a better idea how it works.
A video showing this in action has been released before. Seems to be pretty sweet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hDKaMvAFzA&NR=1
johnny lee is fuckin pissed right now!
that dude in the 2nd to last and 3rd to last photos looks like he's performing a fight scene from every martial arts movie ever made :]
Somehow the "upto 60fps" implies that it will hog CPU and render your computer unusable for anything other than moving around windows.
wow that dude with the wiimote hack was a couple of month earlier from this, he must be proud of himself
Sweet... eyetoy...
the main photo was very creepy
Hey, I am in!
I dunno, when I watched Minority Report all I could think of was, "Man, if I had to work at one of those computers for 8 hours a day my arms would get tired." I'll keep my mouse, thank you very much.
As funny as it looks in the near future, perhaps by 2050 we will not be using the mouse anymore. We will be using our fingers with touchscreen LCD displays.
I would hate to have to remember all those hand gestures
this solves the problem of finger prints on touch screens
PS EYE or PS2 Eye toy does this for games and has for years. why does everyone think this is "New Tech" this is so 1990's. Heck I play games today that are more motion sensitive than this stuff. maybe Sony should check some patents and get into the suing game again.
No it doesn't, that's just regular video processing, this is a special camera that captures depth information. EyeToy is just a regular cam+video procession software. This is specialized hardware+software currently at a very early state - huge of potential if done though.
This camera senses depth (distance away from camera) in addition to color.
That's what makes it special.
It's much easier to recognize things pointing at the camera that way.
Spell checking didn't help my post... "processing", no "procession" ;-)
And just "huge potential", not "huge of".
I need some sleep :-/
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