Just a pinch of rock
As seen in a post by the amazing Kevin over at grinding.be, here is a video from the delightful people at the User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) conference (check out their YouTube channel for more awesomeness!).
University of Washington student, T. Scott Sponas, has created a muscle to computer interface which (among other wonderful things, like possibly mapping ASL/sign language) will allow you to play Guitar Hero without a guitar.
I wanted someone to break out into a ‘Deeledeeleedeeleee Wyld Stallyns!’ at some point there. If you go and skip ahead to 00:56 seconds you’ll see the magic, but I highly recommend watching the whole movie.
Notice the bad-ass monitors they had to strap onto the guy’s arm just to show this off, too. Not exactly plug-and-play enabled, to say the very least.
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Awesome though this is, can you imagine attempting hammer-ons with this thing strapped to your arm? Sounds like a short road to arthritis!
… which I far prefer being on the medium road to
Does this just further reinforce the Rock Band developer’s point that DLC is where the future of the music gaming business is at, not producing and selling plastic instruments?
Also if this ever gets off the ground then everybody at DV8 on a Saturday night will automatically be able to crush RB / GH on expert. Thar be some serious air guitarists there!