Unless you’re into weird promotional mascots , games, or measuring the rotation of the earth , the PlayStation Move probably hasn’t caught your eye. Here’s a concept: what once you could wave it about to regulate your PC? Earlier this week, electronics hobbyist Jacob Pennock used the Move.me C library to construct a gesture-controlled mouse driver, and we’ve got the project’s tech demo after the break. Watch as Pennock launches Facebook by drawing an “F,” starts a video with a jaunty “V,” and closes a couple of items with a snappy “X” motion over the offending windows. Control motions are loaded during the creator’s own gesture recognition library, called hyperglyph, which he claims can record motions with 98 percent accuracy. As Move.me is currently a closed beta, Pennock is keeping the source code under wraps, but he hopes to eventually put the motive force to take advantage of controlling a gesture-based Linux media center. Pretty neat, but not quite enough to stave off our Kinect hack envy.
[Thanks, Robert]
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