Use camera for control rather than touch screen.
 

Hi Guys,

Being linux n all and considering our N900's have a front facing camera.

What do you think about the chances would be of a cool feature where the camera was on and to move desktops etc you could use hand gestures?

IE: wave your hand from right to left and the screen would slide right to left?

Just wondered if it would be possible or if anyone has seen talk about this before?

That would really PISS off the apple monkeys saying that their touchscreen is better.

We could turn round and say, well.. we dotn even need to touch ours!

/Giggity

Re: Use camera for control rather than touch screen.
 

A totally out there idea but I like the sound of it. I wonder if its even possible. I bet if it is someone on here has an idea on how it will work :-)

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Well, its definately possible on many different PC applications and a couple of flash web sites.
so I think its just a matter of connecting to the camera, and porting the code from the PC applications of flash web sites to maemo.

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I can imagine it would be possible, would be pretty awesome to have a N900 variant of "project natal" would need customised applications to really take advantage of it, though Media Player, Ovi Maps, Camera, Conversations would all allow for at least partial control of the handset.

Then again, does a Touch-Screen really require that sort of function? But then who cares, lets go f****in' crazy!

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well ther are programs whitch use your eye for mouse control howabut chacking one of those ??????

or iwe seen (online) some contact lenses (bluetooth i think) could use the bluetooth to make it work .

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There was a similar app developed by AikonLabs for Nokia s60 v3/v5

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There are two major showstoppers for such an application
1) Front camera is extremely low res and complex movements are out of the option no matter of the processing power
2) Such an application is virtually useless in low-light mode (the camera already performs extremely badly in any non-brightly-lit environment)

Unfortunately, with given hardware, such an approach can only be a gimmick, hardly anything useful.

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What about a method of finger input.

Say if the camera can pick up lines on your fingers, (dont press on the camera obv) give some space for lighting, you could pull your thumb down and have that with some cool virtual mouse :P.

Lol out of this world ftw ^^.

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The res on the camera can barely recognise a human head let alone the lines on a finger.......

Correct about the poor resolution making any useful application worthless.......Most of the other applications that could be used are covered by the proximity sensor.

But still, would be a cool application to have and if set up it Could be of some use maybe in later applications.

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i saw a youtbue video of a similar software just do that, i think it is for n95