Instead of using a table or panel based display to interact with, I’ve decided to work on a pair of Minority Report style gloves. Basically, there is a small IR LED on each thumb and pointer finger enabling all the typical multi-touch features like click, scroll, drag, etc.

The problem I’m having is with the software. Touchlib treats each blob as a click event which works fine for a multi-touch table but not when the glove LEDs are continuously detected. What I would like is to have the software track the primary blob (first finger it sees) with the mouse until two blobs are merged by pinching the thumb and pointer finger to initiate a click event.

Any ideas on how to make this happen would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Why don’t you build a small led area and make the thing with a wii-mote.See Johnny Lee’s video about head tracking , it has a sample on how he made finger tracking with the wiimote.
You could use touchlib in a similar manner.

Thanks for your response. The problem is that to my knowledge there is no mouse simulation software for the wiimote finger tracking. Otherwise, that would be a perfect alternative.

u need ir controlers?

no?