About AirVA · press kit

AirVA turns airinto a canvas.

AirVA turns any webcam into a drawing surface you control with your bare hand. No headset, no stylus, no install — a browser tab, a pinch, and a line of light that follows your fingertip.

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Free · no account · the camera stays on your device

In one breath

What AirVA is

AirVA turns any webcam into a drawing surface you control with your bare hand. It runs in a browser tab: the camera watches your hand, hand tracking finds 21 points on it many times a second, and the shape your fingers make becomes an instruction — pinch to draw, three fingers to pan, thumb and middle to zoom.

Input

Your bare hand, read by the webcam you already own.

Tracking

Google's MediaPipe hand tracking, running on your device.

Gestures

Six: draw, point, erase, menu, pan and zoom.

Brushes

Six: Marker, Neon, Velocity, Rainbow, Mono and Sparks.

Colour

Six palettes of eight, plus an HSV wheel for any colour.

Canvas

Infinite, with pan and zoom, in landscape or portrait.

Smart tools

AirShape snaps a held stroke to a clean shape; Sculpt lets you grab and bend lines.

Export

Full-resolution PNG, MP4 or WebM video, and 2×, 3× or 5× timelapse.

Price

Free. No account, no trial, no paywall.

Privacy

Frames are processed in your browser and never uploaded.

Why it exists

Spatial computing, without the headset

Drawing in mid-air with your hands is one of the oldest dreams in computing, and until recently it came with a price tag: a headset at $3,499, or a controller, a stylus, a tablet. Yet almost everyone who wants to try it already owns the one device it really needs — a camera.

So AirVA starts from the other end: no hardware to buy, nothing to install, no account. A web page turns the camera on the laptop or phone in front of you into an input for your hands, so a student on a school Chromebook, a teacher on a classroom PC and a creator filming for Reels all start from the same tab. The longer version of that argument is in AirVA vs Apple Vision Pro.

$3,499A spatial-computing headset: impressive, heavy, and a price most people will never pay.
+ a penA stylus or a drawing tablet: precise, and one more device to buy, charge and carry.
$0The webcam already in your laptop or phone, and a browser tab. That is all AirVA asks for.
Where it is going

From a canvas to AirVA OS

Drawing comes first because it is the clearest thing a hand can do: a pinch, and a line. But the same gesture vocabulary already opens menus and switches tools, and that points somewhere bigger — an operating system you run with your hands, from any webcam.

That is a direction, not a list of dates. The fuller picture — notes and shapes, floating windows, spatial apps — is in the AirVA OS article.

How it is built

Four things AirVA holds to

01

Your camera stays yours

Hand tracking runs inside your browser. Frames are processed on your device and discarded — nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to attach anything to.

02

Free means free

No account, no trial that turns into a subscription, no paywall behind the good brush.

03

We say what it cannot do

Every page lists the limits: no layers, no collaboration, a small corner mark on exports, and a camera that needs to see your hand.

04

Gestures are the interface

Fewer buttons, not more. Each thing you can do should be something your hand can say — not a toolbar, a language.

Press kit

Writing about AirVA?

Everything you need is here. The images and videos are for coverage and reviews — please credit getairva.com. The product is written AirVA.

One line

AirVA is a free web app that turns any webcam into a drawing surface controlled by bare-hand gestures — no headset, stylus or install.

Short

AirVA turns the webcam you already own into a spatial interface. Hand tracking runs in the browser, so a pinch of the thumb and index finger draws in mid-air, three fingers pan the canvas, and other gestures zoom, erase and open menus. It is free, needs no account or install, and processes the camera on the user's own device.

Longer

AirVA is a browser-based spatial computing project that starts with drawing. Open getairva.com on a laptop or phone, allow the camera, and your hand becomes the input: pinch to draw on an infinite canvas, pan and zoom with other pinches, and choose from six brushes and six palettes. Drawings export as full-resolution images or as video, including timelapse. Hand tracking runs on the user's device, and nothing from the camera is uploaded. AirVA is free, with no account and nothing to install. The long-term plan is AirVA OS — an operating system you control with your hands, from any webcam.

NameAirVA
Websitegetairva.com
What it isA web app for drawing in mid-air with your hand
PriceFree — no account, no subscription
Runs onLaptops and phones with a camera and a modern browser
InputBare-hand gestures, read by the webcam
PrivacyCamera frames are processed on the device; nothing is uploaded
Contactsupport@getairva.com
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AirVA screenshot: zooming the canvas
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Demo videoMP4 · 6.6 MB
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Colours and type

The palette is a dark ink with four lights, purple leading. Headlines are set in Gambetta, text in Cabinet Grotesk, and labels in DM Mono.

Purple#7C3AED · the brand
Violet#A855F7 · accent
Magenta#FF2D9B · accent
Cyan#4FE3FF · accent
Light purple#C084FC · emphasis
Ink#05030A · background
Say hello

Questions, schools, press

One inbox reads everything. Teachers planning a lesson, journalists on a deadline and people who found a bug are all welcome — and the fastest answers go to messages that say what you tried, and on which device.

support@getairva.com
Questions

Asked, and
answered.

Still stuck? Open the canvas and try it — the thing answers faster than reading about it does.

Try it Free

AirVA is a free web app that turns any webcam into a drawing surface you control with your bare hand. A pinch of your thumb and index finger draws in mid-air; other gestures pan, zoom, erase and open menus. It runs in the browser with nothing to install.

AirVA is an independent project — not a feature inside a big company's product. The best way to reach the people behind it is support@getairva.com.

Yes. There is no account, no trial and no paywall.

No. Hand tracking runs inside your browser on your own device; frames are processed there and discarded. Nothing from the camera is uploaded.

Your webcam's video goes to the browser tab, where Google's MediaPipe hand tracking finds the points of your hand. AirVA reads the shape your fingers make — a pinch, three fingers together, a pointing finger — and turns it into drawing, panning, zooming and menus.

Yes. The press-kit images and videos on this page are here for coverage and reviews. Please credit getairva.com.

Drawing is the first chapter. The plan is AirVA OS: notes, shapes and text next, then floating windows and apps you run with your hands — all from a webcam.

Try the thing itself.

Everything on this page is easier to understand in ten seconds of drawing than in ten minutes of reading.

Start drawing in air
Keep reading

More on drawing
in mid-air.

The six AirVA gesturesEvery feature, verifiedHow to air draw — the guidePut AirVA on your devicePrivacy policyInfinite canvasNeon drawingThe AirVA blogWhat is hand tracking?A short history of drawing in the airDo you need a VR headset?