Computers have gone through big changes since their release to the public. They have gone from a cubed-shaped box to a simple folding laptop. They started heavy and ugly and through innovation became light and elegant. Their usage became much more simple and nowadays most of the population is using a computer. Each year new features are being added or updated to our devices and one of them could soon be “Typealike”.
Typealike is a new technology that uses your computer camera to sense your hand movement and carry out commands based on what symbol you are showing with your hand. For example, when the user shows the webcam their thumb pointing upwards, the volume will change to higher. The technology was built by machine learning techniques and is able to understand a variety of different hand movements. Each user could set their own hand gestures to specific commands based on their liking. The point of this is to make the user experience faster and smoother.
The question is whether this system will actually make it easier to use the computer. You can change the volume of your device with a press of a button anyway so making a hand gesture to do it might not make such a big difference in accessibility. Perhaps Typalike could be implemented in different fields such as replacing the need for controllers for gaming consoles.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220105094430.htm
I believe that such a technology would be very niche. I think most people today would still prefer to type or talk to send messages. The same goes for using computers or phones, people would still prefer to type or swipe. I can easily see people thinking, “wait, isn’t that awkward if I need to make gestures to my phone?” Who knows, maybe someday people will get used to it?
On the other hand, I think this technology could be amazing as it would potentially encourage people to learn sign language.
I think that this technology is not a dead end, as there’s definitely need to use computers just as easy as mobile phones without losing the benefits of the computer. Just such trivial thing as changing monitor’s setting may become many times faster, due to that.
This is one of the innovation that i want to experience in the next 10 years along with accurate voice-to-text converter
Generally speaking – this project may be the newest game changer. At first glanceI see pros of this solution. On the other hand, the question should be asked: what about security? as we read in the article the camera will be in use in the reference to activity of the mentioned “app”: “Typealike is a new technology that uses your computer camera to sense your hand movement and carry out commands based on what symbol you are showing with your hand.”