Playing Atari 2600 defender using my hands as motion controls

[Eran Feit2]

 

Hi,

This is a cool project of controlling Atari 2600 Defender game using the hands pose as a virtual joystick

The project demonstrate how can we replace the traditional joystick with our hand and fingers

The code estimate if the second finger is open or close for simulating “Fire” button , and the directions of the finger

In order to simulate : up, down, left and right

 

You can watch the enjoyable result here : https://youtu.be/iQGDvn3bZrI

The project is based on OpenCV , Mediapipe and Python

 

Eran

[+Stephen Moss]

A novelty gimmick to be sure but I think ultimately pointless.

Playing for 5 minutes may be OK, but more than 5 minutes holding your arm in a relatively fixed spot so the camera can track I think will quickly become tiring making it impractical for long periods of play compared to a Joystick.

 

Also Left/Right direction control is claimed but interestingly not shown, if tilting your hand up is Up and tilting it down is Down, is that because you have to flip it 180 degrees for Right as that would be damn awkward.