Gesture Controlled Virtual Reality Based Conferencing

The technology available today for interacting with a virtual environment involves wired or wireless hand controls with limited buttons or a large setup involving a camera and/or a sensor to capture movements. The cost of such a setup is such that it makes it inaccessible to most. The project aims at providing a cost effective VR solution which can produce the same effect with precision and flexibility, which is accessible to all. The proposed idea is to provide a hardware device that provides the user with an immersive VR experience and uses hand gestures captured via a camera placed on the device to control and interact with the VR environment. As an application of the project, an interactive workspace environment would be simulated, using a single hardware component that provides the user the viewing interface as well as can be controlled by simple hand gestures eliminating the need for additional hand-held devices controls. The project will also delve into the field of supervised learning to make possible the implementation of gesture recognition.