Touch-less technology is the future (especially after the Covid-19 pandemic).
So, I made Zesture, a Mac/Windows app that uses your laptop's camera to give you touch-free control over your media, entertainment and presentation applications (without any extra hardware).
Privacy: Using your webcam is totally secure. Gesture recognition is done locally on your computer and hence we don't record, save or send any images or videos at all. Your camera is turned off automatically after a certain period of inactivity (configurable via the app).
We’d love to get your feedback and look forward to answering any questions!
What makes you think that's the case? What's the reasoning to start to use touch-less technologies, and why would they be the future? IMHO the lack of physical feedback makes it a non-starter though that's just my personal preference.
Edit: I forgot to add that it looks like a great product, and the landing page is quite good! I just don't see what are the arguments in favor of touch-less techs.
This is very neat looking and at some point I may give this a go to control Spotify.
One concern I have though is with this running the LED light on camera is always going to be active (which is fine) but I then won't know if some other (malicious) app is accessing my camera.
Another thing to keep in mind is I am sure some form of this eventually makes it into MacOS. No way Apple acquired all those gesture patents without having some kind of plan for them.
I had once a summer intern work on this. I wanted to use it in our chemical and biological labs because scientists had to constantly take off their gloves to use the computers next to e.g. HPLC's.
Funny that people can create a company around such ideas.
This looks pretty neat! I'm definitely going to give it a try!
Also, I really appreciate the price, with the $9,99 one time purchase it seems like it's afforable to a lot of people, especially if they'd use it professionally.
Some college kid could get this done in a day with TF.js/BlazePalm. It's like the Flutter app which google bought for the domain & instead of releasing it or doing anything with it they decided to just use the name for their attempt at another mobile app development framework...
radhakrsna|5 years ago
Touch-less technology is the future (especially after the Covid-19 pandemic).
So, I made Zesture, a Mac/Windows app that uses your laptop's camera to give you touch-free control over your media, entertainment and presentation applications (without any extra hardware).
You can watch a demo video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_swm09Xmtg&feature=emb_titl...
Supported Apps and Websites:
- Music: Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Spotify (Web Player), YouTube Music, Amazon Music (Web Player) and Deezer.
- Video: VLC Media Player, YouTube and Netflix.
- Presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint and Keynote.
️Supported Actions: Play/Pause, Next/Previous Track, Enter/Exit Full-screen, Forward/Rewind, Mute/Unmute, Volume Up/Down.
Privacy: Using your webcam is totally secure. Gesture recognition is done locally on your computer and hence we don't record, save or send any images or videos at all. Your camera is turned off automatically after a certain period of inactivity (configurable via the app).
We’d love to get your feedback and look forward to answering any questions!
dgellow|5 years ago
What makes you think that's the case? What's the reasoning to start to use touch-less technologies, and why would they be the future? IMHO the lack of physical feedback makes it a non-starter though that's just my personal preference.
Edit: I forgot to add that it looks like a great product, and the landing page is quite good! I just don't see what are the arguments in favor of touch-less techs.
jarym|5 years ago
One concern I have though is with this running the LED light on camera is always going to be active (which is fine) but I then won't know if some other (malicious) app is accessing my camera.
Another thing to keep in mind is I am sure some form of this eventually makes it into MacOS. No way Apple acquired all those gesture patents without having some kind of plan for them.
de6u99er|5 years ago
Funny that people can create a company around such ideas.
beeman|5 years ago
Also, I really appreciate the price, with the $9,99 one time purchase it seems like it's afforable to a lot of people, especially if they'd use it professionally.
reiichiroh|5 years ago
villgax|5 years ago
timwis|5 years ago
ronakjain90|5 years ago
Looks very neat, would give it a try.
Amishabirje|5 years ago
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