Finnish computer science students have devised a system which enables air guitarists to hear themselves 'play'. LOOK @ HIM......
The Virtual Air Guitar project, developed at the Helsinki University of Technology, adds genuine electric guitar sounds to the air guitar.
Using a computer to monitor the hand movements of the 'player', it adds riffs and licks to match frantic mid-air finger work, reports New Scientist.
Aki Kanerva, Juha Laitinen and Teemu Mäki-Patola came up with the idea after being invited to develop a virtual instrument as part of their coursework.
"The first thing that came to mind was an air guitar," Kanerva told New Scientist.
The resulting system consists of a video camera and a computer hooked up to an appropriately loud set of speakers.
The player wears a pair of brightly coloured gloves, enabling computer vision software to keep track of their hands and detect different gestures.
Kanerva said: "No two playing experiences are quite the same.
"When you're playing really hard you get a really nasty distortion sound which is great - but you have to work for it."
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