Wait, am I really the only guy who just hits the mute button?
Cool technology, but that's a strange use case.
Wait, am I really the only guy who just hits the mute button?
Cool technology, but that's a strange use case.
There's always the speaker menu that I can pop up and select mute, but it's unnatural enough that my brain goes into panic mode when it needs to shut off the sound quickly. I'd probably just slap the power switch on my external amp.
So, this strikes me as a much, much more natural user interface than what I assume most people have on their existing system.
Maybe if I primarily used a laptop directly, I'd have a different opinion, but having played with alternative input devices (e.g. Bluetooth remote control), I really like having a unified method of muting all my media, and in a familiar form factor. Since holding my hand up seems very natural and familiar to me, I imagine that I'd like this hand-recognition system.