The Virtual Air Guitar

Playing the Virtual Air Guitar is like playing rock guitar, only without an actual instrument, or musical skills.

To play Air Guitar, pull on a pair of orange gloves, press the start pedal, and take a playing pose as if you were holding an imaginary guitar - left hand on the guitar's neck, and right hand near your hip. You will see yourself on a TV screen, with your orange gloves highlighted.

Now swing the right hand as if you were strumming a big chord. And you will actually hear a power chord with punchy distortion. If you move your left hand along the imaginary neck and strum, you'll hear a different chord. You can't play any "wrong" chords as they have been pre-selected for you.

When you're ready for your solo, press the switch pedal to change from chord mode to solo mode.

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Developed at the Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory and the Acoustics Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology.