Hong Kong students take air guitar to the next level with iPhone app that lets you play all day, anytime, anywhere
- University of Hong Kong trio win first prize at contest organised by Apple
- While another group takes second prize for app that helps visually impaired
Music lovers might sometimes find themselves wanting to strum some strings or play some riffs, but without a guitar in hand this used to mean waving your hands in the air like you just didn’t care.
Not any more.
Now, air guitarists can pluck away to their heart’s content with the innovative Air Guitar iOS application, invented by three computer engineering students from the University of Hong Kong, – Will Lam Wun-yin, Daniel Kwok Ching-fung and Alex Teoh Jian-ning.
The app allows wannabe guitarists and more accomplished musicians alike to “play” guitar anywhere, anytime, with their iPhone.
And the trio behind it won first prize at the 2018 China Collegiate Computing Contest – 3rd Mobile Application Innovation Contest, organised by Zhejiang University and Apple Inc.
The app detects the motions and the gestures of the player, transforming their actions into guitar chords, mimicking the experience of playing a guitar.