Flutter (YC W12): The Startup That Wants To Put The World’s Webcams To Good Use
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#3Say you’re sitting at your laptop, listening to music while responding to emails, writing code, or reading blogs. Then your phone rings, and the typical scramble ensues: You minimize your browser, maximize your music app, and search frantically for the pause button or volume control — all, hopefully, before you miss the call. Sound familiar?
Wait, am I really the only guy who just hits the mute button?
Cool technology, but that's a strange use case.
Re: Flutter (YC W12): The Startup That Wants To Put The World’s Webcams To Good Use
#4Skype/iChat video automatically mute my music.
The big thing for me will be trying to get past the webcam light being on all the time, and could something be recording?
They should really come up with filters that obfuscate people to some extent, but still pick up motion, then this would feel better...
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#5Say you’re sitting at your laptop, listening to music while responding to emails, writing code, or reading blogs. Then your phone rings, and the typical scramble ensues: You minimize your browser, maximize your music app, and search frantically for the pause button or volume control — all, hopefully, before you miss the call. Sound familiar? Wait, am I really the only guy who just hits the mute button? Cool technolog…
I don't have a mute button. Actually, my laptop has one, but I'm usually on an external monitor with the laptop lid closed, so I couldn't get to it anyway.
There's always the speaker menu that I can pop up and select mute, but it's unnatural enough that my brain goes into panic mode when it needs to shut off the sound quickly. I'd probably just slap the power switch on my external amp.
So, this strikes me as a much, much more natural user interface than what I assume most people have on their existing system.
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#6Why not an app tied to the mic that recognises your ringtone and mutes everything? That means I reach for my phone rather than have to make any gestures first.
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#7Skype/iChat video automatically mute my music. The big thing for me will be trying to get past the webcam light being on all the time, and could something be recording? They should really come up with filters that obfuscate people to some extent, but still pick up motion, then this would feel better...
Yup, I agree. Also it would add extra CPU usage at all times. Of course, you could make it like Siri in that you have to press some key to turn it on. That solves all 3 problems, though I wonder if the webcam activates fast enough for the intended immediately-stop-the-music use.
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#8That's basically Kinect for Windows, but using your built-in webcam, right? And targeting gesture controls for apps, vs. games.
I can't find system requirements on their web page, but the demo video shows it running on a Mac.
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#9Why not an app tied to the mic that recognises your ringtone and mutes everything? That means I reach for my phone rather than have to make any gestures first.
Another practical use of the technology in Shazam! Just gotta make it fast enough, which you probably could considering you just check it against one song vs. every song.
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#10Say you’re sitting at your laptop, listening to music while responding to emails, writing code, or reading blogs. Then your phone rings, and the typical scramble ensues: You minimize your browser, maximize your music app, and search frantically for the pause button or volume control — all, hopefully, before you miss the call. Sound familiar? Wait, am I really the only guy who just hits the mute button? Cool technolog…
I don't have a mute button. Actually, my laptop has one, but I'm usually on an external monitor with the laptop lid closed, so I couldn't get to it anyway. There's always the speaker menu that I can pop up and select mute, but it's unnatural enough that my brain goes into panic mode when it needs to shut off the sound quickly. I'd probably just slap the power switch on my external amp. So, this strikes me as a much,…
I have a similar setup (external monitor with the Macbook lid closed) But in my case (and possibly for other Macbook users with the same setup), closing the lid makes the webcam inaccessible as well.