The system can recognise when the wearer is pointing with a finger, grasping an object or resting their hands on a surface.
Pointing can direct the camera towards a target. Or it can be used to overlay virtual objects on a video picture. This video shows virtual objects being generated and positioned with different hand gestures.
"If you are going to use wearable computers, you cannot use a computer and mouse," Mayol Cuevas says. Instead, users may one day assemble their own "virtual workspace" around them using a wearable computer and a head-mounted display, he suggests.
"A person's hands are always there to see," he told New Scientist. "I want to have the system use that to tell if you are, say, cooking or eating." This information could warn a computer to reroute phone calls to avoid interruptions, or cause it to bring up information on a computer screen or head-mounted display related to the task in hand.
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