University of Washington Ph.D. student Scott Saponas demonstrated his muscle-movement interface for computer systems, by using it to control a familiar application: Guitar Hero. The system appears to guess finger movements by reading the signals from muscles in the forearm. The result: a true air guitar experience. In the custom Guitar Hero setup, the player can hold frets simply by touching a finger with his thumb, and strum by, well, strumming the air. See it in action after the break!
this tech is pretty dame cool and i can see all kinds of applications for it, from helping the disabled to controlling servo-powered robots. but demonstrating it with air guitar hero was just a brilliant PR move on this guy's part. he's from my alma mater!
Why? What is the point of that? Let's take a look.
If that was how you would play, then it would be the equivilant of playing air guitar, which, last I checked, is free. You could just go on YouTube and look up a chart and pretend that it's you getting 100% to get the same expierence. Playing with a plastic instrument at least gives you some physical feedback on playing the game.
Besides, isn't air instruments the reason why Wii Music was such a failure?
Because it's just a tech demo. The actual potential applications are different.
Wait a second, you ugly midget son of a bitch, you're just trying to get us to keep buying your overpriced peripheral controllers. I'm on to you Kotick!
At first i was going to leave a comment questioning what this story has to do with religion, but then I found passage Harmon I:X in the Bible. And you're right, this does have to do with religion because it states:
"And lo, He gaveth to man the plasticke lute, wherewith man shall play His holy Musical Games. But damned shall be he who rejecteth God's gifts, for it is only the devil who can manipulate the Games by sheer force of will alone!"
