Wrist-worn 3D hand tracker (Digits – “on the move” interface)
Microsoft Kinect 2 will be released in 2013 and probably one of the new features will be finger tracking. Until then there is a wearable hardware device presented in 2012 by the Microsoft research division in the UK that recognizes and track with accuracy the user´s hand movement.
Components:
- Inertia Sensor (measurement unit)
- InfraRed diffuse ilumination
- InfraRed Camera
- InfraRed Laser Line
“Our hands are extremely dexterous, making them the primary mechanism to manipulate and interact with the physical world. Understandably a considerable focus of HCI* research has been in transferring such ‘natural’ hand manipulations into the digital domain. However, current user interfaces rarely leverage the full dexterity of our hands,”
Digits: freehand 3D interactions anywhere using a wrist-worn gloveless sensor (ACM paper)
http://kotaku.com/5950393/microsofts-new-gadget-lets-you-control-any-device-with-a-mid+air-gesture