Comment WiiGloves! (Score 1) 151
The video call at a distance is just awkward. I suppose in certain situations even that can be valuable, but as an everyday thing I don't see it happening.
I agree, wiigloves would be the way to go. The way that they show the video analysis is similar to what artificial intelligence geeks have been trying for years at to give robots sight - with little success. It's not what the sign looks like that's important, it's the motion, so video capture is totally unnecessary. Besides, motion capture data is far smaller than video data - they probably wouldn't have any problem at all if they just stuck to motion capture and displayed it on a little monkey animation on the recipient's cell (deaf-to-deaf).
For deaf-to-speech, the call could be routed through a 3rd party server to translate the motion to any language-allowing the call to be sent to any regular phone.
I agree, wiigloves would be the way to go. The way that they show the video analysis is similar to what artificial intelligence geeks have been trying for years at to give robots sight - with little success. It's not what the sign looks like that's important, it's the motion, so video capture is totally unnecessary. Besides, motion capture data is far smaller than video data - they probably wouldn't have any problem at all if they just stuck to motion capture and displayed it on a little monkey animation on the recipient's cell (deaf-to-deaf).
For deaf-to-speech, the call could be routed through a 3rd party server to translate the motion to any language-allowing the call to be sent to any regular phone.
