Built for the Figma Makeathon, Airwwave transforms your iPad’s camera into a motion-capture performance space. The interface displays 28 ambient loops (drones, nature, industrial, piano/ensemble) hosted on Cloudinary, each with 12-second fade in/out transitions for concert-style seamless changes. A 7-step LCD onboarding with a hold-to-complete progress bar guides users through the gesture vocabulary. The experience uses two-hand tracking with skeleton overlays and labeled landmarks, providing visual feedback as you conduct. Each of the 28 pads features long highlight persistence, making it easy to see active selections even during complex gestural sequences.
The gesture set transforms physical movement into musical expression. Left hand rotation cycles through sounds, while returning to vertical stops or confirms selection. Right hand pinch toggles the selected sound, with pinch amount controlling speed. Right rotation adjusts reverb, and holding a left OK gesture locks or unlocks parameters. Global gestures include hands apart/together for stereo width, hands left/right for pan, shake velocity for tremolo and echo motion, right fist for filter resonance, and left hand toward camera for volume reduction on approximately half the active loops. Effects processed in real time include reverb, filter/resonance, stereo width, pan, volume, tremolo, delay/echo motion, speed, and octave shifting.
As a webapp designed for Safari on iPad, Airwwave prioritizes theatrical performance over clinical precision. The Figma prototype foundation means responsiveness may vary across browsers, and the experience requires good lighting for accurate hand tracking. While not a replacement for traditional music apps, it represents an innovative direction for gesture-based music creation in mobile AR, perfect for ambient improvisation or experimental live sets where the visual performance is as important as the sound.
Key features include:
- 28 ambient loops: drones, nature, industrial, piano/ensemble via Cloudinary
- 12s fade in/out per sound for seamless transitions
- Two-hand tracking with skeleton overlays and labeled landmarks
- Extensive gesture controls: rotation, pinch, fist, shake, hand position
- Real-time effects: reverb, filter, stereo width, pan, volume, tremolo, echo, speed, octave
- 7-step LCD onboarding with hold-to-complete progress bar
App price: Free
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