Build your own motion tracking system
Stewart Hamilton-Arrandale shows how to get game with a webcam and Flash
Most laptops and computers nowadays have a webcam, so in this tutorial we are going to look at utilising Flash to create a simple motion tracking system.
The uses for such a system vary, but here we will be looking at using the webcam to control a simple Flash game via moving our arms left to right.
This could also be used for tracking elements in a video in Flash, and maybe even adding speech bubbles to track people in the video.
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