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Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller [Clips]
kotaku.com - 10/27/2009
Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller [Clips]
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Welcome to Bobby Kotick's nightmare, a world in which Guitar Hero controllers could be rendered useless , a world in which video games can be played by monitoring muscle actions. A brave new air guitar future! In reality, this technical demonstration of muscle-computer interfaces, as shown ...
performancetrap.org - 29 days ago
Too Much of a Good Thing: Explaining the decline of Guitar Hero and Rock Band
— performancetrap.org — In 2006, after its acquisition by Activision, RedOctane dismissed Harmonix Music Systems as lead developer for the... Guitar Hero brand of music games. Harmonix was then acquired by Viacom, which resulted in a bifurcation in instrument-based rhythm ... (more) Too Much of a Good Thing: Explaining the decline of ...

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uk.ps2.ign.com - 10/24/2009
Activision: Initial DJ Hero Sales Might Be Slow
— uk.ps2.ign.com — October 23, 2009 - Activision's newest upcoming music title, DJ Hero , has a lot to live... up to. After releasing several successful iterations of the Guitar Hero franchise, the publisher decided to try something new by releasing a DJ-based game using a ... (more) Activision: Initial DJ Hero Sales Might Be Slow

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procrastineering.blogspot.com - 10/27/2009
Guitar Hero without a guitar
— procrastineering.blogspot.com — This year, I'm helping the User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) conference put their proceedings videos online... so that more people can access them. So far, I've gotten most of the videos from this year uploaded to the conference YouTube ... (more) Guitar Hero without a guitar

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GoNintendo:  Guitar Hero mod allows for air guitar input

Joystiq:  Science makes Air Guitar Hero a reality

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Guitar Hero mod allows for air guitar input
GoNintendo — Direct link here

Science makes Air Guitar Hero a reality
Joystiq — ... his thumb, and strum by, well, strumming the air. See it in action after the break! This is just a demonstration of some experimental technology. It's not specifically a game controller, and Activision won't be shipping electrodes to stores any time soon. This is a presentation for the Association for Computer Machinery's Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology -- the Guitar Hero thing just makes for an impressive show. [Via Kotaku] Continue reading Science makes Air Guitar Hero a reality ...

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University of Washington Ph.D. student Scott Saponas demonstrated his muscle-movement interface for computer systems, by using it to control a familiar application: Guitar Hero. The system appears to guess finger movements by reading the signals from muscles in the forearm. The result: a true ...