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Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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post #4

I love this, but for some reason I can't find any way to turn the camera on/it only works with the mouse. Awesome toy though.

There's a button next to "gyro" labeled "hands." Click on it, and the browser will ask for the camera permission. For me (Chrome, mac), I had to click on the "cal" button next to it the first time to actually switch to the camera.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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post #12

Bah, I got part way through making this as an iPhone app and this person beat me to it :P Seriously though: nicely done, UX here is better than what I came up with.

An iPhone version which used both the front and rear cameras would be far cooler than this, and provide better control too. Call it Cameramin and you’ve got a customer. ;)

Both front/rear cameras simultaneously? How would that work? You’d either have to have it balancing upright, or hold it in your mouth or something else awkward no?

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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An iPhone version which used both the front and rear cameras would be far cooler than this, and provide better control too. Call it Cameramin and you’ve got a customer. ;)

Both front/rear cameras simultaneously? How would that work? You’d either have to have it balancing upright, or hold it in your mouth or something else awkward no?

Phone stands exist, and I can see a custom stand working plausibly well if this made phones replace actual theramins for performances.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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post #45

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Both front/rear cameras simultaneously? How would that work? You’d either have to have it balancing upright, or hold it in your mouth or something else awkward no?

Phone stands exist, and I can see a custom stand working plausibly well if this made phones replace actual theramins for performances.

Exactly, just 3D print a little inverted π-shaped stand, plonk the Cameramin on it, and get on with the performance.

Sounds like a great app idea, no matter that someone else might’ve already done something similar. I’d love to see it personally (although I have my own theremin to play with) .. an app like this would be very fun indeed.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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post #26
post #9

I’m going to get pwned one of these days, considering my threshold for giving a random website access to my webcam is apparently mild curiosity and entertainment for 30s.

What would be the attack vector with indirect access to a webcam?

I'd love if the people who put a tape over their laptop webcam could answer this.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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AI is great. AI is a huge field encompassing many things that are not LLMs.

This was built by an LLM

And? I'm talking about all the other things encompassing AI and Machine Learning.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both front/rear cameras simultaneously? How would that work? You’d either have to have it balancing upright, or hold it in your mouth or something else awkward no?

Phone stands exist, and I can see a custom stand working plausibly well if this made phones replace actual theramins for performances.

Phone stands exist!?

We were talking about an app hence my comment on usability. Now we’re discussing something entirely different.

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