Scientists Create Air Guitar T-shirt 105
onco_p53 writes "Australian scientists have invented a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play actual music as they strum the air. The shirt has sensors in each elbow and sleeves to detect and interpret the air guitarist's arm movements — one arm chooses chords and the other strums imaginary strings. The gestures are then connected wirelessly to guitar audio samples to generate the music. Check out the video!"
Scientists? (Score:1)
Major Vs Minor (Score:5, Insightful)
I assume this is intended to only play power chords and on top of that there is no way the machine can determine if you intend the third to be major or minor in the chord. Which is interesting because in the video, the chord changes from major to minor with no change in the performer. That's fine, let's then assume that you can select a key and it will adhere to the chords in that key.
At several points in the video, he strums by flicking his wrist instead of moving his whole arm. That's pretty standard for guitarists but doesn't explain how the shirt (with sensor fibres in the elbow) would recognize the motion. Also, near the end, the guitar that I assume he is playing strums multiple times without him doing anything.
I read the article and, if it has been developed, this short short video did not do a good job of showing it off or selling me on it actually working. I'd rather see an average guy just messing around with it with no back track. I don't care if it's not perfect, it's just that I could make that video with crappy acid trip effects in my basement and my friend on guitar watching me move my arms.
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Flicking my left wrist while my right elbow is in my left hand just makes my right hand swing violently, hitting me in the head. Nice trick!
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I meant flick your right wrist... Nice reply.
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Then you need to practice until there isn't. Principle of Least Motion. Only contract those muscles which are actually necessary to perform the movement.
In this case the muscles that rotate the forearm, easily detected and entirely seperate from elbow movement.
Turns out this real virtual instrument is going to take a bit of training and practice to play well. Go figure.
KFG
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You sure are.
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Layne
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Re:Major Vs Minor - Key Signature (Score:1)
The basic chords for any major scale are always the same:
I, IIm, IIIm, IV, V, VIm, VIIo.
The vast majority of pop/rock is written in D or G:
D, Em, F#m, G, A, Bm, C#o.
G, Am, Bm, C, D, Em, F#o.
All the system has to do is know what
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other problems... (Score:3, Funny)
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We'd need force-feedback in it too...
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qualifies as entry for the ignoble prize competion, methinks.
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(sorry)
Do you like to play video games? (Score:2)
It's made out of the wrong material (Score:2, Funny)
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No...I want an Iron Man Costume! (Score:2)
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and people thought... (Score:4, Funny)
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"Um.... now!"
"Nnnnnnnnnnow!"
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Even if it costs the shirt off our backs.
Fabric choice (Score:4, Funny)
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From a tiny ukulele to a cello, there is always an instrument to fit.
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Then I want a STFU glove (Score:3, Funny)
What's printed on the T-shirt? (Score:5, Funny)
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You're lucky. Atleast you can form cords. Due to a few very stupid injuries to my hands and fingers when I was younger, and when I was not quite so younger (Like when I got my hand stuck between the bowl and the mixer of a Hobart, that is, a dough-mixing machine, when I worked at a pizza joint, and broke some bones in my hand,) I have a very difficult time co-ordinating motions with multiple fingers. Things like typing, or playing single-notes quickly on a guitar are easy, as long as the fingers are move
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Air girlfriend (Score:5, Funny)
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Western Civilization has... (Score:2)
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What's next? (Score:1)
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wow, (Score:1, Troll)
Nothing to see here, please move on
Defeats the Purpose (Score:2, Insightful)
Wouldn't it have been easier to... (Score:1, Insightful)
You wanna be guitar heroes, and you don't even wanna put the work in on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBiJ-K0IpDA [youtube.com]
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That got modded insightful?
Heck, this whole discussion has gotten off to a bad start. Maybe it's the video that did it; too many people are seeing this as a gimmick or even a fake, just because 'it doesn't look right'. The ABC's coverage [abc.net.au] does a better job than the SMH, methinks, and of course there's the CSIRO's own release [csiro.au].
This shirt is real. The idea is to get people interested in the idea of this sort of wearable technology. There are more practical applications being put forward by the team behind it.
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Off topic - Blame me (Score:1)
Rejected of course.
2006-11-13 05:39:01 Wear Guitar (Index,Music) (rejected)
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or try it with gloves (Score:1)
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- the invention of linux (actually in Helsinki)
- the invention of the (real, working) virtual air guitar (in Espoo, where HUT is)
Scientists can now put down their pencils - everthing that needs to be done has been done.
FatPhil
If this is real... (Score:2, Funny)
Be excellent to each other (Score:2, Funny)
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Customization? (Score:1)
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But won't it still sound bad? (Score:3, Insightful)
Interesting, but doesn't go far enough... (Score:1)
They should call it the Tenacious T (Score:1)
cafe press (Score:2)
Tambourine version (Score:1)
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"Scientists Create Air Guitar T-shirt" (Score:3, Funny)
After reading the title
my first thought was: "How can they tell?"FPS integration (Score:1)
what's that in (Score:3, Funny)
(Sorry just had to strum that note...)
The 1990's called... (Score:3, Insightful)
Alright - I realize this isn't a glove interface, but what is it with geeks, "virtual" environments (including those in the head), and air guitar? Arguably, from everything I have read about the history of VPL, the DataGlove's first raison-d'etra (probably munged that!) was so that Jaron Lanier (and a buddy?) could play "air guitar" using their Atari ST and MIDI (google around on "VPL" and "DataGlove" if you don't believe me). Since that time, tons of people, companies, and bands have experimented in one form or another to bring the "air guitar" to life.
I don't play the guitar, nor do I know how, and I won't say I have strummed a bit in the air, too - everyone has, I think. However, I know that if I really wanted to play guitar, no amount of movements "in air" will ever be able to recreate what happens with a real guitar. At best, I will get an approximation of (likely) samples of somebody else's real performance.
Finally, I must admit I haven't read the article - but I would be willing to bet that there are 50/50 odds that the article mentions how the technology could be used to "read" sign language by monitoring the movements of the arms (yet another thing the DataGlove was touted as a useful thing to do with it, and yet another that gets hauled out year-after-year).
I guess what I am tired of is all of this rehash of stuff we already know how to do - let's quit playing and demonstrating dead-end uses for VR (and AR) technology, and let's start using it for real world tasks!
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This would go great with... (Score:1)