Machine Child hand tracking scene from hal application Watch Video
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Description: A part of the VR composition premiered at Cyberfest 97 hosted by Roger Ebert. The scene demonstrates the hand gesture interface in analogy to the vision intelligence of the computer HAL in the movie 2001. The performer's hand is controlling the formant characteristics of voice synthesis model adapted from Xavier Rodet at IRCAM, Paris. Hand gesture interface R&D application was made possible by collaboration between HCII group and NCSA Audio Development group at UIUC.
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