Is This the Cheapest, Most Wacky-Looking Gestural Interface in the World?

Robert Wang's system just requires a Webcam--and some awesomely crazy-looking Lycra gloves.

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Gestural interfaces aren't quite mainstream yet, partly because they can be ruinously expensive--involving multiple cameras and custom detectors. But a student at MIT has devised one requires only a Webcam, and some crazy looking Lycra gloves that look like they'd be worn by hipsters from the future.

The obvious forbear to this tech is the Sixth Sense system, also out of MIT, which relied on colorful...