FLUTTER APP (Control the music player by your hand)

Most of the time, we used to do multitasking with our system. We usually work with word file by referring to the web browser or we may surf or we may play high definition games. In most of these cases, we used to play music in background. (I usually do this!!!). In such case, if we wanna play or pause the music player, we have to minimize the active window or maximize the music player window from taskbar. This becomes more tedious when we play games like GTA, NFS etc... We can't simply pause or terminate our mission for play/pause the music player.

Using input devices to accept our command has started to sense its death :-D The hot research in image processing is to get input from user in the form of action or gesture and perform the desired operation in the system. Microsoft is working on this and 2 years back, Microsoft stated that it is impossible to use the ordinary webcam of the system to receive gesture of the user and make computer do the operation based on the gesture.

What makes this discussion interesting is that this is made possible by a very small company which actually has only 7 employees under it. That was really interesting. They made the webcam to sense our hand gesture to play/pause the music player. 

What you need to do to pause/play the music player is just raise your hand and show the STOP gesture before the webcam.

The pictorial explanation of how this app works is...

They developed an app called FLUTTERAPP to achieve this. Initially they introduced this app for Mac OS. Just 3 weeks back, they unveiled the Windows version of this app. Since this is their 1st initiative, they may extend this idea to get all kinds of inputs in future in this way so that just webcam can serve as an input device by accepting all sort of inputs eliminating the need for separate device for different mode of inputs... 

Navneet Dalal whose native is Chandigarh, India and who currently resides in San Francisco did this great job. Really Indians are talented. This blog is an evidence to it. :-)

I really loved this technique and i'm sharing this to you. You can download this app in www.flutterapp.com I request everyone to give a try on this app during your idle time. You'll feel the thrill as i did...

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