In nuce: The user Xavier (Jack), developer, animator and programmer in one, has presented the current development status of his real-time hand tracking app via Twitter. On 23 January, Xavier posted a moving image on Twitter that demonstrates what his app currently looks like in use. See below:

Good news!

I got a small grant to experiment with the creative use of real-time hand tracking in the browser.

First step, get that hand rig working with mediapipe (@tensorflow) and @threejs pic.twitter.com/RwXocbxZqJ

— Xavier (Jack) (@KMkota0) January 23, 2023

In toto: The highlight: His app should work directly in the web browser. According to Xavier, his app should still achieve good results even if the fingers being recorded are obscured by objects in the foreground of the image, for example. During development, Xavier utilised both the open source library TensorFlow , which focuses on machine learning for research and production, and Three.js, a cross-browser JavaScript library and application programming interface that can be used to create animated 3D graphics in the web browser.

Click further: To the Twitter account of the user Xavier (Jack).

Source: 80.lv ( message from Theodore McKenzie)

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Andersson Technologies releases Synth Eyes 2106 – the latest version of its 3D tracking software.

Synth Eyes 2106 now also supports AprilTag, a source-free system that can be used to create tracking targets. The created targets resemble QR codes. In appearance, they are circular and square in shape and – compared to a QR code – appear comparatively simple. This should make them readable, even from a greater distance. There are a total of eight tag families, each containing between 30,000 and 65,000 different designs. In addition, Synth Eyes now supports 25 different languages; and symbols in Unicode can now also be displayed in tracker names and nodes. Synth Eyes was developed by the Robotics Lab at the University of Michigan.

A list of all changes can be found in the corresponding announcement at Andersson Technologies. The video below demonstrates how this works with the AprilTags in Synth Eyes 2106.

 

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