Microsoft releases Touchless

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Today Microsoft has released "Touchless", an opensource project belonging to the officelabs, which IMO should be a very useful (and fun!) in the next few years as these sort of things become more common.




Touchless enables touch without touching by using a webcam to track color based markers. Touchless includes two parts:

<LI style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Touchless Demo is an open source application that anyone with a webcam can use to experience multi-touch, no geekiness required. There are 4 fun demos: Snake - where you control a snake with a marker, Defender - up to 4 player version of a pong-like game, Map - where you can rotate, zoom, and move a map using 2 markers, and Draw - the marker is used to guess what.... draw!
Touchless SDK is an open source SDK that enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input, geekiness recommended.
This project is an Office Labs community project, which means a Microsoft employee worked on this in their spare time. It is also an open source project, which means that anyone can view, use, and contribute to the code.


URL for more information: http://www.officelabs.com/projects/touchless/Pages/default.aspx

URL to download:
http://www.codeplex.com/touchless/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=17986

All you need to get started is a Web cam!

Thoughts?

[Recursion]

That is very cool!!

[H0BJ0B]

Got it the other day. It's crap. It doesn't work very well at all.

[Recursion]

Works fantastic for me LOL.

[Nereo]

It sounds cool so hopefully it will be good. :)

[Recursion]

To make it work, you need to get something like a red colourd pen as your marker that stands out well :P

[Nereo]

I just tried it out. Couldnt work out how to use it :(

[L?KE]

Probably get it some time in the not-to-distant future.

Cba atm, going out soon. Looks good though, cheers (y)

[HotelUser]

this is very interesting. However, are there actually good applications designed to work with this technology?

[Muppet]

Just about to install this, very excited! Just need to install .NET framework *Rolls eyes*

[Pyroka]

Do my eyes decieve me, or are Microsoft releasing an OPEN SOURCE piece of software? :o

I'll check this out!