Gestures + Reveal.JS

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70 points·DanielRibeiro··6 comments

Two things I don't like:

* multiple directional scrolling * hijacking my back button

At least they're trying. I would think you'd need something more sensitive than a normal webcam for gesture detection, so that's a feat in itself.

I really think that it was a cool hack by William Walter Wu. When I first saw it I was expecting it to use Leap Motion[1], which made into HN's first page a few days ago[2].

Getting Leap Motion integrated with Chrome would be amazing, because, you are right, the webcam alone does not seem to be precise enough, as the author said:

It took me a while to write and fine tune the detection algorithms. Even then, the algorithms are only about 80% accurate

[1] https://www.leapmotion.com/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5179335 and was not the first time:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4250536

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4170446

the accuracy does not seem to have reached the level where it would be really usable yet. 80% accuracy means every 5th slide the transition goes wrong. but i suspect pouring some machine learning magic dust on this could get it there.

super cool. can't wait to scare the pants off people at office >:)

good experiment but accuarcy more like 10% than 80% , but again cool stuff , can make its effect during a talk in a conference.

spend half an hour you will get good accuracy.

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