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Video Gesture Control is a term that refers to the use of video cameras to capture, analyse and interpret human movement and gesture in real time as a control interface for computer display. The term was originally created by Canadians Vincent John Vincent[1] and Francis MacDougall[2] as a way to describe the technology for the interactive virtual reality game system (GestureXtreme®)that they invented in the late 1980s. Video gesture control originally enabled a user to step in front of a video camera and control a computer-generated environment onscreen without having to wear, hold or touch anything. The user’s real-time video image appeared within the virtual world and the user was able to manipulate and interact with the surrounding animation by making hand and body movements to control the movements of their video image in real-time. Video gesture control software and a camera conducted a full body analysis of the user, who was keyed out against the background. In the early 1990s, a more robust version of video gesture control software was developed and patented, which does not necessarily show the user onscreen but continues to track the user’s image for purposes of identifying and responding to the user's gesture-based computer commands.

External Links

1. ^ http://www.gesturetek.com

References

1. ^ http://www.vjvincent.com/ 2. ^ http://www.techthink.org/speaker08_MacDougall.asp