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Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

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Re: Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

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This is really awesome, although a bit spastic at times. I'm not sure if this is the proper way to use this concept, but I could see how this concept could be used in similar fashions for setting settings. Like set it once, and then have that size apply to whole site or something. Either way, never clever idea, and well done! :)

Re: Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

#4
post #3

Brilliant! Couldn't get it running in FF, but works like a dream in Chrome. Very useful for interfaces which may run on, say, a TV. Knowing the physical size, or the viewport dimensions, doesn't tell you how far away the user is.

I was going to comment to say the same thing. I've been playing Dust 514 on my PS3 recently, it's enjoyable but most of the text is too small for me to read comfortably, if they could detect a player being sat further away and increase it then it'd make life a lot easier.

Definitely a cool concept.

Re: Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

#8
This is awesome. The algorithm seems to have some trouble with glasses and headphones, but works pretty well otherwise. It's such a simple idea, and with the new web technologies becoming widespread, I expect that we will see more of this sort of thing in the future.
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