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Atlas Gloves:  A DIY Hand Gesture Interface for Google Earth


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May 8th, 2006 May 8th, 2006    11:12am 11:12am

We have finally uploaded the code and the application and would love to let you try. Start by making your own gloves, following the step-by-step instructions in Build Your Own Atlas Gloves.

Minimum Requirements

  • Google Earth (built for version 3)
  • Java Software
  • Quicktime 6.5 (or newer version)
  • Webcam (known to work with most basic webcams)
  • A pair of Atlas Gloves
  • Extra

  • In some cases we use WinVDIG to overcome Quicktime/Java incompatabilities (please use version 1.0.1)
  • Atlas Gloves Version 0.1

    Download Windows Version (176 KB)

    Download Mac OSX Version (198 KB)

    Download Linux Version (170 KB)

    Atlas Gloves is written in Processing, which is an open-source programming language based on Java. If you want to play with the code and include the demo mode with the instruction animation, download this archive, and open the file in Processing (the code is known to work with Processing 0114 BETA):

    Source code and materials (9.213 M)

    Let us know if you come up with anything interesting…

    Enjoy,

    Dan & Mushon

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    20 Responses

    1. RRE Embrunais Savinois

      We would like to test your DIY Atlas globes for educational applications in primary schools

    2. totoro

      good!

    3. Chris Haller

      This would be great for public meetings around urban planning issues, for example to explore different scenarios. Would love to play around with it!

    4. pepe

      Very good product, i hope to test it as soon as posibel

    5. Sonja Hortela

      We are Communication design students and would like to try this in our school (ESTGP-Portugal)…its a very good app. :)

    6. alfio

      Greet!!!

    7. donatello

      i can’t download it… why?

    8. Abdallah El Guindy

      How do I download it?

    9. Sam

      Are you still planning on posting a download?

    10. mushon

      Yes we are, we’re sorry for the delay. We are trying to optimize the code as much as we can before posting it, we need to consider different operating systems, CPUs and webcams. We promise to post the code soon and notify all of you guys (who left/sent us an e-mail)

      thanks for all of your support,

      Dan& Mushon

    11. Atlas Gloves: A DIY Hand Gesture Interface for Google Earth

      […] sorry for the long wait, we wanted to polish the code and comment the source well before putting it here for download, but now it’s up. Go download the application and build your own Atlas Gloves. As you probably can imagine, this app is pretty hacky and is bound to work differently with different types of computers and webcams. We encourage you to play with the code and adjust it, we’ve made it as accessable as we could. Now it’s your turn. […]

    12. Le Blogue du LFG - Guadalajara, Mexique

      Atlas Glove, une première version disponible :o )…

      Au mois de mai (voir ce post), j’avais bloggué sur Atlas Gloves, une interface qui permet de piloter Google Earth à la manière de “Minority Report” :o )

      Une première version, estampillée 0.1, a été mise en ligne :o )

      @ té…

    13. falum

      the webcam window does not come up. The java iconedwindow loads but the window remains grey. I’ve tried it on a intel duo laptop, xp, 2 different webcams, newest java, downgraded from G Earth4 to GEarth 3, running out of ideas for getting it working. any suggestions greatfully recieved.
      A fantastic project.

    14. donatello

      the same problem…

    15. mushon

      Please refer to the forum for some troubleshooting,

      cheers,

      AG team

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