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I've been thinking about doing something like this forever, but never taken the time to sit down and do it. (And probably couldn't have done a particularly good
by sfink 5y ago
I've been thinking about doing something like this forever, but never taken the time to sit down and do it. (And probably couldn't have done a particularly good job of it anyway.) My main usage scenarios are:
- using my hand as a mouse in space-constrained situations where I can't have a physical mouse
- dance class, so the instructor can seek through music, especially for rewinding to the same starting spot over and over again. (This is from the days of in-person classes; it drove me nuts that the instructor had to keep walking back to his phone and then getting it a few beats off)
- spellcasting game
For many uses, I'd be really concerned with false positives. I don't want to have to pin my arms to my sides to avoid triggering something. I'd also want it to be pretty robust to different angles, so I don't have to get my hand exactly parallel to the camera. (Seeing yourself is pretty good for smoothing this over, since at least you'll notice when you're not pointing in quite the right direction. But some applications would be much nicer if they were usable without seeing yourself.)
Overall, this feels more like a tech demo than an application. Sadly, you'll probably have to pick some niche to focus on, because I think the tradeoffs are going to be very different. And dance teachers and yoga instructors don't have much money. (WakaSaba also doesn't exactly suggest the functionality to this English-speaker.)
- vqc 5y ago(cofounder here) > - using my hand as a mouse in space-constrained situations where I can't have a physical mouse Are you thinking that you would consider using something like this to interact with your entire computer generally (i.e. instead of solely in the context of a video streaming like shown in the demo)? > - dance class, so the instructor can seek through music, especially for rewinding to the same starting spot over and over again. (This is from the days of in-person classes; it drove me nuts that the instructor had to keep walking back to his phone and then getting it a few beats off) This is really validating feedback and affirms a lot of our experience in these types of classes (especially remote). Requiring the instructor to walk towards the device to basically do anything really messes with the flow of the class. And requiring the learners to walk towards the device to do anything basically reduces the social aspects of the class to zero. We actually do have a built out music control system that we took out for the purposes of this demo. We also have voice controls that can be used to control the music playing (among other things). > - spellcasting game This prompted a considerable amount of discussion during our most recent sync. If you're available / interested, can you reach out to vince@wakasaba.com, we'd love to chat some more. Thanks!