While Microsoft’s Project Natal Xbox 360 add-on has been [URL=http://mashable.com/2010/05/17/project-natal-price/]rumored[/URL] to have a price tag of around $200, MIT researchers have created a gesture-based computer interface that requires only a cheap pair of colored Lycra gloves (in addition to a webcam).

Billed as low-latency, Grad student Robert Wang, from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory sees the most “obvious application” for the invention as videogames.

The technology, [URL=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/gesture-computing-0520.html]as noted on MIT’s website[/URL], is based on “a new algorithm for rapidly looking up visual data in a database.”

Colors used on the gloves were specifically chosen so that they could easily be distinguished from each other by the computer.

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