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I am interested in making a game that relies on hand gestures being detected by a webcam. In search for how to go about this, I came across videos like this and this which used Open CV to detect hand gestures.

I then found this tutorial series on YouTube. In the process of working through it I learned a lot! Checkout the series if you want a great intro to Open CV.

Since this is one of the few times the only time I managed to keep a dev log, I present it below.

I came across James Alliban’s work on Augmented Reality,

Here’s his full article including the demo in the video. And while you are there, his projects are amazing!

After watching several of his videos I was inspired to try it out. I found these two awesome tutorials on getting started,