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Handtrack.js Impact Notes
This wiki page is used to keep track on relevant discussions on how handtrack.js is being used today by developers.
Handtrack.js was created as an accessible Library for Prototyping Handtracking Interactions Directly in the Browser. It enables developers who cannot or are not interested in building their own AI models for handtracking, to easily integrate this capability in their web applications. It achieves this, by providing a simple API which abstracts aways admin aspects of the model use process (model hosting, loading). Underneath, Handtrack.js is an object detection model (MobilenetV2, SSD) converted to @tensorflow js, wrapped in a js library with some helpful methods (load, detect, renderpredictions, start video, etc).
When we think about it, some college students might come up with amazing things with hand track application. Might me something to do with serious projects counting on gesture password.
- Other students have reached out personally indicating their use of Handtrack.js for prototyping school projects. Most of these students have mentioned limited AI and sometimes web experience.
Handtrack.js has been well received by the community. Some of these are referenced below.
- Top trending Javascript Library Worldwide on Github.
- Discussed and upvoted on Reddit
- Posted on HackerNews (YCombinator)
- [Turkey] A beautiful Impressive Library. https://twitter.com/zaferdemirkol/status/1111165084863205376 This user used Handtrack.js to build doodles and wanted to do more.
- [Japan] https://twitter.com/n3104/status/1109725670710480896 “It works normally when I try the demo, and it's really amazing.”
- [France] https://twitter.com/SergiMMX/status/1109096190094856192 “I posted about it a few days ago, it still has me crazy”
- https://twitter.com/aaronfrost/status/1104084550211141633 Handtrack.js is so awesome. Thank you for building it and sharing it and taking the time to make that such an easy way to get hand tracking into an app.
- https://dev.to/i_ankurbiswas/comment/9kdl There are so many things on this list that I've never heard before. Like Handtrack.js, it's so cool. And code time extension for vs code is going to be super useful for me. Iknu and Nordic fonts looks so cool too.
- [Translation] https://www.infoq.cn/article/AEBYR-eOYAXogzeDPOKJ Translated to Chinese
- [News Article] 10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for March 2019 . https://tutorialzine.com/2019/03/10-interesting-javascript-and-css-libraries-for-march-2019