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Guides, tutorials, and comparisons for touchless control with AirTouch.
Guides
How touchless control works and where it fits.
Scroll Recipes With Messy Hands: No Touching Needed
Flour on your fingers and the recipe just scrolled away. How to scroll recipes without touching the screen, using a laptop webcam and hand gestures.
Does Gesture Control Work With Surgical Gloves?
Touchscreens fail with gloved hands. How camera-based hand tracking handles surgical gloves, which colors need a setting change, and what to test first.
Kinect in the OR: What Happened to Touchless Surgery
A decade ago surgeons used Xbox Kinect sensors for touchless image control in the OR. Why those projects stalled, and what camera-based gesture control changed.
Tutorials
Step by step setup for AirTouch.
TouchDesigner Hand Tracking After Kinect: 3 Options
Kinect is gone but TouchDesigner installations live on. Your 2026 options: Orbbec through the Kinect operators, MediaPipe, and AirTouch as the input layer.
How to Make Any Screen a Touch Screen With a Camera
You can make any screen a touch screen without new hardware. AirTouch turns hand gestures from a camera into real touch input. Setup, modes, and displays.
AirTouch Advanced Settings for Crowds and Kiosks
The settings that make gesture control work in crowds, operating rooms, and kiosks: AutoZoom, surgical glove support, gaze checks, and proximity triggers.
Comparisons
How AirTouch compares to other gesture systems.
Ultraleap Alternatives in 2026: 5 Options Compared
Ultraleap's hand tracking has a new owner and a new focus. Five Ultraleap alternatives for kiosks, XR, and custom apps, with honest tradeoffs for each.
AirTouch vs Zoom and Teams Built-In Gestures
Zoom gesture recognition turns a thumbs up into an emoji. It does not control your slides. What built-in meeting gestures do, and what gesture control adds.
Leap Motion Alternatives in 2026: 5 Options Compared
Leap Motion's hand tracking business has a new owner focused on music. Five Leap Motion alternatives for desktop, kiosk, and XR projects, with honest tradeoffs.
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