Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Current Event 2: Microsoft's Newest Gestural Interface Captures Hand Motions By Listening to Them

This article was about how Microsoft opened the idea to use Kinect, but with a microphone. Users can be able to manipulate video games and control their devices with simple hand motion controls. This technology is also able to let users to control their computers using the hand gestures as the SoundWave system emits a constant sound that is altered by the hand movements, the micophone can pick up changes in frequency caused by the gestures. This handy feature is not yey released to everyday PC
computers. It is not stated when the new technology 
will be coming out to the public. As of right now, the team
of researchers are able to make the microphone work with
the device very clearly.

Here is the link to the article: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-05/microsoft-researchs-new-gestural-interface-captures-hand-motions-sound-waves

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