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Re: Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestures thru Webcam

#61
Amazing, the single gesture is very well implemented.

Can't wait to swish my hands around to skip songs! :) And once you have that, you should build a futuristic minority report kind of a demo video ;)

Also, if you're looking to hire, you should definitely put a "Team" page up on your site.

Re: Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestures thru Webcam

#63
post #42

Really cool. I was just playing with it and my girlfriend walked over to ask me a question. I held up my hand to my computer as if to say "Hold on, computer." It was a bit surreal. Very cool. Can't wait for more gestures or a generalized way to program my own gestures. I would love to be able to gesture "Switch to iTerm.app" by doing an OK sign or something. Sign language letters maybe? Anyway, thanks. Really enjoy i…

My thoughts almost exactly on the programmable front... like Better Touch Tool but rather No touch Tool, although the latter name does retain the locker-room hilarity of the former.

Perhaps a gesture to bring up the app switching ribbon and a gesture to reference the item (numbered from left to right maybe.)

I'd also like to have the option to calibrate it, my eyes are painfully photosensitive and I tend to work in very dimly-lit conditions.

Re: Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestures thru Webcam

#64
Hi guys. Since there seems to be an ML component, I was wondering how this was built. Do you start with a basic hypothesis and see if it holds for some training set and then refine it or right off the bat go with a generic classifier like SVM (with some features in mind) or something like that and then tweak it? Also, how did you choose the dataset for this ?

This project is very cool. Congratulations and good luck!

Re: Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestures thru Webcam

#65
Wow - I originally didn't download because I've used something similar before that worked only kind of well.

This works fantastically and is usable enough for daily use as a simple way to control iTunes or Spotify. Well done!

I'll look forward to more gestures.

Re: Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestures thru Webcam

#66
Blown away.

How far are you guys from full Minority Report-ization of my Mac?

I mentioned in another post that I tend to work in very dimly lit spaces due to painfully photosensitive eyes. A non-mandatory calibration dialogue would probably be a handy thing for folks like me.

Re: Show HN: Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestures thru Webcam

#70
post #58

Soooooo. Doesn't this open up a whole new realm of privacy concerns? Who cares if Path has my contacts list, I'm more concerned that you guys are watching me surf for porn!

Legit concern. This is why we've built an app w/o a server component, so everything happens on your machine. We do not capture anything from your webcam. It all happens on your machine. On top of it, there's a turn off capability which will allow you to turn it off for time being.

I presume the connection opened to AWS on boot is just for tracking purposes, yes? :)
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