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Re: Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine

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Post by brundolf »

Bit of feedback: the home page is pretty sparse. The video is great, but it wasn't obvious how to find the repo or where to get the package (or even what language it can be used with). I had to open the Demo, wait for it to load, and then click the Github link there, and then the readme told me it was available on NPM.

Otherwise looks pretty impressive! I've been looking for something like this and I may give it a whirl

Re: Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

tomcooks wrote: post #6

This is a GREAT website, I can understand what it does with zero clicks, zero scrolls. Really great, congratulations, I hope that I can find a way to apply this lesson to my SaaS.

Agreed, but also nature of the beast. It's really easy to explain hand tracking software in a single media element. It's a lot harder to explain some crypto AEAD encapsulation format the same way.

I assume YoHa means Your Hands... I don't think I could have resisted OhHi for hand tracking.

Re: Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine

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Post by karxxm »

b-3-n wrote: post #25
karxxm wrote: post #21

Would you provide the related paper to this approach?

In contrast to similar works there is no dedicated paper that presents e.g. the neural network or the training procedure. Of course ideas from many papers influenced this work and I can't list them all here. Maybe it helps that the backbone of the network is very similar to MobileNetV2 ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04381 ). Let me know if you have any more questions in that regard.

Thanks for your reply! I just thought that SIGCHI is around the corner and it will be presented there! Awesome work!

Re: Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine

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Post by itake »

colordrops wrote: post #12
itake wrote: post #11

I think these tools are super interesting, but I tools like this marginalize users with non-standard number of limbs or fingers.

What do you suggest be done about it?

I'm fine with using them, as long as alternatives are available for people with disabilities are able to participate as well.

Imagine if your bank started using these to access your account and suddenly disabled customers could no longer use their adaptive input devices to interact with their account.

Re: Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine

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Post by itake »

rpmisms wrote: post #27
itake wrote: post #11

I think these tools are super interesting, but I tools like this marginalize users with non-standard number of limbs or fingers.

So does the real world. Things are hard to do with disabilities. That's what the word means. This has great potential, and it's not worth shutting down because some people aren't able to use it. I can also see this being very helpful for people who have cerebral palsy, for example. Larger movements are easier, this might help someone use the web more easily.

What if a bank used this for authentication and disable people can't use their custom interface devices? Does that mean that disabled people shouldn't access to their bank accounts?

Maybe if this was the input device that interacts with the standard web, then there is potential here, but it would be unfortunate if a company used this as a primary means of input.

Re: Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine

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Post by Graffur »

gitgud wrote: post #2

The demo really sells it here [1]. It's amazingly intuitive and easy to use, it should be a part of video-conferencing software. [1] https://handtracking.io/draw_demo/

It's like an initial beta of the software - it's not production ready. I can't imagine this adding value to a meeting _yet_. Seems promising though.

Re: Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine

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Post by b-3-n »

brundolf wrote: post #32

Bit of feedback: the home page is pretty sparse. The video is great, but it wasn't obvious how to find the repo or where to get the package (or even what language it can be used with). I had to open the Demo, wait for it to load, and then click the Github link there, and then the readme told me it was available on NPM. Otherwise looks pretty impressive! I've been looking for something like this and I may give it a wh…

Thank you for the feedback. You are right, the home page should probably be enriched with more information and maybe I can make the information you were looking for stand out better. As a side note: There is a link to GitHub in the footer. The language ("TypeScript API") is also mentioned in the body of the page. But I see that these two can quickly go unnoticed.
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