When David Holz, CTO of Leap Motion, first told me not to focus too much on the company's hardware because the real magic was in the software, I only half believed him. After listening to Microsoft ...

You can do all kinds of wonderful things with cameras and image recognition. However, sometimes spatial data is useful, too. As [madmcu] demonstrates, you can use depth data from a time-of-flight ...

Air-writing and gesture recognition systems represent a frontier in human–computer interaction, enabling users to communicate and control devices through natural hand and finger movements without the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Hand gestures have become a natural way to communicate with digital systems, but making machines understand those gestures with precision remains a technical challenge. While ...

Researchers have shown it's possible to leverage Wi-Fi signals around us to detect specific movements without needing sensors on the human body or cameras. Using a Wi-Fi router and a few wireless ...