GELToC is an open-source application based on the original idea of Atlas Gloves. Atlas Gloves is a physical interface for controlling 3D mapping applications like Google Earth using a webcam and a pair of illuminating gloves.
I've decided to develop my own Google Earth controller for two main reasons:
- I've tested Atlas Gloves and even though it's very interesting and fun to use it is still somewhat unstable. It was developed using Processing, an open-source programming language for handling images, animations and sounds, which is still in a Beta release
- I was curious about this kind of technology myself for sometime now and decided to use my own time to do some research on it and was amazed on how easy it is to implement something like this
Figure - Led Torches
GELToC was developed using the Java Programming Language. It uses the JMF (Java Media Framework) API to access images from the webcam and it uses the java.awt.Robot Class to control the mouse.