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Hand detection when using gloves
Hey all,
I'm currently developing an application on HoloLens which schould be used in a factory environment. Probably, the workers will wear gloves, I guess, which would make the hand interaction difficult. Or can the handdetection algorithm of HoloLens handle such scenarios? Moreover, speech interaction is also limited since it could be very loud there. Has anybody had any experience with such scenarios? Thanks for the help 
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I don't see why the hand interaction wouldn't work when wearing gloves. I haven't tried it but, its just looking for something that looks like a known hand gesture.
As for your speech interactions it really just depends on how loud the environment is. I've had some success in loud environments but, most of the time it actually still works. So it really just depends on how loud it really is and if it is more of a constant loud or just kind of loud in bursts.
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I don't see why the hand interaction wouldn't work when wearing gloves. I haven't tried it but, its just looking for something that looks like a known hand gesture.
As for your speech interactions it really just depends on how loud the environment is. I've had some success in loud environments but, most of the time it actually still works. So it really just depends on how loud it really is and if it is more of a constant loud or just kind of loud in bursts.
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Thanks! I was wondering because I thought it would use also some kind of color detection to track hands. So if someone would wear, for example, blue gloves that it would have a hard time detecting the hands. But if it mostly works by hand gesture detection then it should do fine.
I am a bit late here, but I think it also used color to improve the detection because when I am using grey gloves the interaction is still working but with more failure (to detect).