CHIMERA

Camera-controlled experiences. One engine, many manifests — an app here is a JSON genome, not a codebase.

Every demo needs a webcam and runs entirely on your device. No video leaves the browser. Stand back far enough that your arms are in frame.

Grade these

The grid →

23 behaviourally distinct experiences from MAP-Elites illumination. Pick any cell, allow the camera, try it. Fitness shown is a machine floor, not taste — that is what your grading is for.

Northwind Retail — swipe →

Room-scale. Pose wrists, swipe left/right, audio + visual feedback. Thresholds in body widths, so one profile holds at 1.5m and 4m.

Helio Sports — hit →

Strike branded targets. Speed-gated, so a resting hand never scores. The verb that sold 18.32M copies unbundled.

Vantage Museum — zone →

Step-into-zone from body position. Occlusion-robust, no gesture vocabulary to teach.

Kestrel Studio — mirror →

See yourself branded. NEX's most-played 2025 title by minutes-per-user is built on this, and it is not a gesture game at all.

The console →

Edit the genome as JSON and boot it. Swap a brick, change a number, export a client pack. This is the machine room, not a demo.

Original pointer demo →

Hand tracking, dwell activation. The first thing that worked.

What to grade it against

Does it respond when you expect, and stay quiet when you expect?
Does a resting arm ever trigger something? It should not.
Does it still work when you step back? That is the claim under test.
Does the mark reform crisply after you disturb it?
Which of the modes would you actually put in front of a client?

Known limits — stated, not hidden

Tuning numbers came from published research and synthetic fixtures. Until now no human arm has ever driven this. Expect to retune.
One person at a time. A second body in frame is a coin flip, not a policy.
No player-acquisition or confidence gating yet — two known reliability gaps.
Not tested against any venue, lighting rig, or hardware but this one.
One golden-video replay fixture now drives real MediaPipe output through the pipeline headlessly — but the video is a HAND demo, so the body barely moves.