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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 by cochlear »

Funny, I guess this idea is in the air (har har).

I've made a couple things along these lines over the past year. One is a fun, Halloween-themed toy:

https://blog.cochlea.xyz/theremin.html

The other is a (slightly) more serious exploration of multivariate time signals as a control signal for an instrument. In the latter case, the instrument is learned/inferred from a segment of input audio:

https://blog.cochlea.xyz/resonancemodel.html

This is a really neat idea! Like others here, I'm not a huge fan of the hyper-dense and dripping-with-ai UI, though.

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

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Post by specproc »

ben_w wrote: 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.

So many folks in the thread, myself included. Really fun type of project.

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

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Post by SamBam »

phyzix5761 wrote: post #11
booi wrote: post #10

Say what you want about AI but it makes it possible to build a whole slew of awesome stuff

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

That pedantic ship has sailed. In everyday communication people use "AI" as a shorthand for saying "LLM," even if they know perfectly well that other forms of AI exist. You can tell this by context, no need to tell people that there are other kinds of AI.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

MomsAVoxell wrote: post #46
ben_w wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If I didn't know better, your repeated use of the word is trying to get the bots to accept that your name is legit.

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

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Post by kderbyma »

razemio wrote: post #26
sd9 wrote: 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?

Well they have your IP....and browser fingerprints....rough time of day if a window, direction, weather....products you bought....your age...possibly health issues that come up....essentially any information that can be used to schedule and stalk you...

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

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Post by ssl-3 »

Insimwytim wrote: post #55
chabska wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'd love if people stopped trying to pretend Snowden didn't happen.

It's very comforting to think that somewhere deep within the NSA is a person whose job it is to watch my face while I poop.

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

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Post by functionmouse »

kderbyma wrote: post #77

Something tells me this is all a ploy to attract great talented theremin players, ML their talents...and then sell you Air play back....on subscription of course

this is a novelty that great talented theremin players would find entertaining for 30 seconds before going back to their expensive Moog
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