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Samir Back in Action with HandWave; Gesture-based Controls for S60

Posted by Zach Epstein on Sep 12, 2008 12:22 pm 6 comments
Filed in Nokia, Software, Symbian

You remember Samir, right? Made popular by his RotateMe application that enables automatic screen rotation in accelerometer-equipped S60 handsets, Samir has become one of the S60 community’s favorite young developers. He now has a pretty great catalog of apps that own the accelerometer so Samir has apparently decided to move on. What will he tackle next? Apparently the front-facing camera! And why not - it should be good for something, right? Samir’s first new project since launching his new AikonLab website is called HandWave and it’s definitely unique to say the least. The video above shows that the app is essentially a very basic gesture control system that makes use of the front camera and allows users to swipe their hand in front of the phone to trigger actions. So far it looks like only right and left d-pad commands are supported but as you can see it’s working quite well. Hopefully we can consider this a proof of concept and future builds will provide some addition movement recognition. If nothing else it will be funny to watch people swipe at their handsets as the flip through images or skip tracks. Efficient? Probably no, but cool none the less. According to Samir’s site, HandWave will be available for download beginning tomorrow.

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6 comment(s) for this post.

  1. On Sep 12, 2008 @ 12:37 pm, Eddie Dollaz Said:

    Samir? Isn’t that the guy from Office Space?

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  2. On Sep 12, 2008 @ 1:16 pm, BBMan Said:

    Too cool!!!

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  3. On Sep 12, 2008 @ 1:34 pm, jared eldredge Said:

    sure, why not - but unlike the office space samir, this samir doesn’t work for initech or any other horid corporate mas-grave making each day of his life the worst one yet. instead, this samir codes for himself and writes rather fun, innovative apps for (my) nokia devices.

    go samir!

    -bit

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  4. On Sep 13, 2008 @ 10:07 pm, TareX Said:

    Awesome, Samir.

    And I thought Windows Mobile 7 was onto something revolutionary.

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  5. On Oct 4, 2008 @ 6:02 am, Samir apps lover Said:

    that damn samir is not releasing any handwave or ass wave since the promised 12 sept.what is wrog with him?

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  6. On Nov 9, 2008 @ 12:52 pm, 1 Said:

    when the handwave will be able to download

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