Atlas Gloves Demo
May 8th, 2006
10:17am
Here is a short video demonstrating how Atlas Gloves works. There are two channels of video composited on top of each other—one of the physical gestures and the other of a large-scale projection of Google Earth, being controlled by Atlas Gloves.
Note: the video has music, so you may want to press mute if you’re at work
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incredible aplication, it looks very well. I will try it when the downloand is ready.
This would be great for public meetings around urban planning issues, for example to explore different scenarios. Would love to play around with it!
Maybe you have thought of this already, but making those lights infrared would make them invisible to us, but visible to most cameras, and thus make it all seem like magic! (Unless you are watching the camera feed, that is.)
[…] Atlas Glove是一个通过用摄像头去识别人的手势然后远程控制Google Earth浏览的互动作品. 作者的想法也非常简单: 平时我们都是用鼠标键盘去操作Google Earth的,如今我们要抛弃鼠标键盘等传统电脑设备, 建立一种新的人机互动的设备. 作者的网站上有整个作品的视频DEMO.(实在太大,不方便下载) […]
Great work- an inspiration!
I’m going to try it out as soon as I can find the time.
Onward,
-Erle
Great work … will try and Hack it into Worldwind.
check out http://www.worldwindcentral.com and the Multi touch and Joy stick interfaces.
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[…] Atlas Gloves: A DIY Hand Gesture Interface for Google Earth Here is a short video demonstrating how Atlas Gloves works. There are two channels of video composited on top of each other—one of the physical gestures and the other of a large-scale projection of Google Earth, being controlled by Atlas Gloves. (tags: Google_Earth Displays) […]
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Hello,
I think the video is not much impressive. C.f. projects like Globe4D or multiuser touchpad controlling GEarth or Warcraft. Simply too boring.
Another issue is that the “lights” are not native parts of human bodies, so the “controlling interface” has no big chance to become a standard.
I wish you persuaded me I was wrong.
Best and sincere wishes,
Mike
Hi Mike,
I’m sorry if the Video didn’t impress you, and I agree it can be better editted and maybe even better shot. Having played with the interface a lot i can tell you it is quite fun and encourage you to try it. (follow the instructions)
We are not planning on uploading a more impressive video soon, but we’re hoping to get some more videos from users that will hopefully impress you more.
We actually shot the video while using an earlier version of Atlas Gloves and the current downloadable version does work better now.
Again, I really recommend you impress yourself by building the gloves and judging the project from first (and second) hand.
cheers,
Mushon
Eliminating the lights would be nice, but due to the constraints of the gestures (grabbing and letting go), it would be hard to differentiate between an open hand and a closed hand with the rudimentary video tracking we’re using. Even with more advanced video tracking, we’d still be hindered by the dark room used for projectioning.
But yeah, in general I’d say we weren’t optimizing for “impressiveness” so much as building something that could be readily replicated without expensive or obscure technology.
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Hello!
Great stuff and idea to interest childresn at the lessons.
BTW. What is the name of that music track played at background of movie?
Marcin
Oh, yeah I should have credited that in the video. It’s “Kid, You’ll Move Mountains” by Caribou, off the album Up In Flames. At the time it was recorded he was going by the name “Manitoba,” but apparently the Canadian province (of the same name) sued him or something. Great album.
It’s great!
Actually it was ‘Handsome Dick Manitoba’ of the proto-punk band the Dictators who sued, for really no other reason than his being a rude, obnoxious twit.
Oh I was going to add this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handsome_Dick_Manitoba
It would be really ironic if the Caribou Coffee chain now took him to court.
Great video, can’t wait to try this out at home this weekend!
BTW, the Manitoba/Caribou name change is down to the fact that Handsome Dick Manitoba (real name Richard Blum) from the NYC punk band The Dictators sued Canadian artist Dan Snaith (Manitoba) for breach of copyright for use of the name Manitoba. The Canadian province Manitoba were quite amused by the whole shebang, apparently.
It’s a great track, whatever name Dan goes under.
Very impressive work and video. It gives me ideas for other applications using the Atlas Gloves paradigm.
I wonder if the Atlas Gloves system would work in a lighted environment if the visible lights in the gloves were replaced with high-power IR LEDs and an IR-only filter were placed in front of the webcam? The IR from the Atlas Gloves would probably far outshine other IR sources in the room.
Of course, this would probably involve hacking the webcam to remove the IR blocking filter that is usually found in webcams. Another complicating factor is that some sort or indicator would be needed on the Atlas Gloves to indicate that they were on. Anyway, it was just a thought.
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Hi Mac,
Glad you liked it. Indeed the IR solution can work and is worth trying. Since we tried to make something simple to produce and execute we went for the easy solution (no webcam hacking included) but you should definitely try that and let us know. (that’s why we kept it opesource, and documented both the phsical interface and the code)
Check out the forums dedicated to other ideas of what can you do with Atlas Gloves. And again, thanks for the feedbacks,
Mushon
Great, how cool!
I’m such a huge fan of te UI in Minority report. This is the first step to the future without RSI!!!
//Emile
Wow! I can’t wait to build my own. Many thanks.
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I love this concept, I’m going to try it out. The IR idea is great and being able to filter the webcam to only see that would let you play with the lights on. I’d love to build a more intuitive device that maybe just slips over your middle finger and isnt so big. Maybe a small glowing disc rather than a ball. Or if you need the size of the ball - how about poking a hole in it and wearing the ball on your fore finger.
I dont know anything about coding - but see you are opensource - awesome! I think this could be great for a lot of things - this note is to the creator, there is an open source operating system “Archy” which is based on a ZUI (zoom user interface). Check out the demo of it - its awesome, and with your program it would work incredibly.
Here’s a link about it, there are links to the demo at the end:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy
Here’s a link that talks about ZUI and has links to applications that use it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_User_Interface
Thanks Jo,
sounds cool, and please keep us updated in the forum of any developments you might make on Atlas Gloves.
cheers,
Mushon
That is way spiffy
In fact, it got me working on some gesture tracking stuff myself using gloves with LEDs on some of the fingertips (though admittedly I’ve wanted to do this ever since seeing Minority Report…)
For now I’m essentially doing “multi-touch in the air” with one light on each hand, but eventually it will use three lights (thumb, index, middle) per glove.
I’m using infrared LEDs wired in parallel along with a red “power” LED for the wearer’s benefit. The webcam has an IR-pass filter made from a piece of floppy disk film.
On the software end, I’m working with OpenCV under Ubuntu. So far, I don’t have much beyond basic tracking, but I’m working on hooking it into MPX.
Again, very neat stuff and great inspiration!
Thanks Katie,
there is no greater compliment than hearing we got you inspired to create a new thing. Atlas Gloves could definitely have worked better with infrared LEDs or using the Wiimote as camera, but we try to keep it as simple and accessible as possible.
Please keep us posted on your development, and send some images or vids if you can.
thanks and good luck,
Mushon