An Air Guitar that Plays!!!

[Tyler]

Some CS majors in Europe have created an air guitar that really plays

Basically you wear these gloves and a webcam reads their position and movements and translates that into genuine guitar sounds.  Man would that have made a sweet senior project.

How long until this is just like DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) and people have contests to see who has the most wicked solo?

[Brad Nunnally]

Yahoo I can make my big return to 80's big hair rock now!!! 3 minute guitar solo here I come.  

[Ross Mead]

Wow, they tackle some really tough problems here.  Simply detecting someone's hand placement on a virtual guitar neck is one thing, but actually trying to match some of the motions to a pentatonic scale (or any scale for that matter) is a whole other story in itself!  Hammer-on's, pull-off's and slides are huge challenges, in that you don't necessarily have a picking motion that is associated with fret-hand movements.  That is, of course, assuming that they use the picking-hand for anything other than just the "rock out" factor!  Ehh, anyways, a very cool project indeed!

... now I can play air guitar in my air band... :-P