How to be a rock star, virtually

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(There's a video demonstration at the page linked at the bottom of the article excerpts.)

How to be a rock star, virtually
By David Sillito
BBC News arts correspondent

There are usually only two things that stop most adolescent males from being guitar "rock gods" - lack of a guitar and a total lack of talent.

Now a group of young Finnish scientists have found a way to overcome these little obstacles.

The Virtual Air Guitar can be mastered in just a few seconds.

You simply put on a pair of orange gloves, stand in front of a camera which is attached to a computer and the software reads your hand movements to create music, of a sort.

There are two basic programs: chords and solo. The chords on offer are perhaps a little basic but even the most musically inept can, within a minute or two, produce the opening riff to Deep Purple's classic Smoke on the Water.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4694482.stm