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A friend fooled me in the ~late 2000s by pretending to have a program installed that could recognize hand gestures to control the screen's UI. So if you moved y
by npilk 3y ago
A friend fooled me in the ~late 2000s by pretending to have a program installed that could recognize hand gestures to control the screen's UI. So if you moved your hand in the air in front of the webcam, the mouse would follow it around (clunkily), and you could squeeze your hand into a fist to click.
It was slow, but mindblowing given the capabilities of the time. I couldn't quite believe it was real, but also couldn't figure out how it was working.
As it turned out, their cell phone had a feature where they could use the control pad to control the mouse on a computer. They were holding it under the table and using it to mirror the hand's movements. They kept 3 or 4 of us going for about 15 minutes before they finally showed us the secret!
- MarcoZavala 3y ago[dead]
- jacquesm 3y agoOn the SGI Indy there was a game called Eye Catcher that did that IRL much earlier than the late 2000's, that was more like the mid 90's.
- kmoser 3y agoIn the early 1980s, when people had just begun to hear about laser printers and they were huge and expensive, I fooled my classmates into thinking I owned one by Xeroxing some images from a magazine onto pin-fed printer paper. Never mind that laser printers don't use pin-fed paper: the fact that it was obviously printer paper of some sort, and yet contained a high-resolution image that was evidently produced by something laser-like, blew my friends' minds.