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Look Out Natal: Ugly Gloves Yield Cool Gesture Tech

By pete_gallagher

While Microsoft's Project Natal Xbox 360 add-on has been rumored to have a price tag of around $200, MIT researchers have created a gesture-based computer interface that requires only a cheap pair of colored Lycra gloves (in addition to a webcam).

Billed as low-latency, Grad student Robert Wang, from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory sees the most 'obvious application' for the invention as videogames.

The technology, as noted on MIT's website, is based on 'a new algorithm for rapidly looking up visual data in a database.'

Colors used on the gloves were specifically chosen so that they could easily be distinguished from each other by the computer.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 20, 2010 (boomark / email).