18-Year-Old Student Develops Innovative Hand Gesture Control For Racing Games
Imagine being able to control a video game with your fingers-- not with your fingertips on the game controllers, but with gestures! Ayaan Khan, an 18-year-old student from?Bengaluru?has an innovative hand gesture control system for popular PC racing games. According to him?by?using this, gamers can control their cars by just waving their fingers in front of a webcam.
Started coding in school
Khan claimed that using gesture controls for games can create an immersive?experience and offer a fresh approach to the genre.
Khan, a first-year Computer Science student from Scaler School of?Technology?said he first started coding?when he was?in High School.
"Three years ago, during class 12, I wrote a simple code that allowed users to control car racing games with hand gestures. I was fascinated by the idea of blending technology with gaming, and that's how this project came to life," Khan said.
Built using Python
According to him, the concept was simple and uses a webcam to capture hand?gestures
"Players could steer virtual cars through challenging race tracks. It combined my passion for coding and gaming, creating an immersive experience," he said.
Built using Python, the code leverages libraries like OpenCV for computer vision and MediaPipe for pose estimation. The system translates these captured hand movements into the?game's steering commands for virtual cars.
How social media reacted
Khan also posted a video on his LinkedIn account showing how easily?the games can?be controlled?using gestures.?While many appreciated his skills and congratulated Khan for his innovative work, some were skeptical.
One person expressed apprehension that it was fake, to which Khan responded by sharing a detailed video on what goes behind and how the technology works.
Sign language translation model
Apart from the gesture-based game control, the 18-year-old is also developing a sign language translation model using TensorFlow and Python to bridge the communication gap for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
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