1. A method comprising: calibrating an interactive media device to identify and visually track: an object moved through space by a user; recording a trajectory of a movement of the object through space extracted from a multi-frame video sequence, the trajectory directly representing a desired handwritten character; displaying the trajectory on a display device; based at least in part on a shape of the trajectory, translating the trajectory into two or more suggested characters; ranking each of the two or more suggested characters based on a likelihood that each of the two or more suggested characters are the desired handwritten character; simultaneously displaying the two or more suggested characters on the display device so that display positions of each of the two or more suggested characters relative to an endpoint of the trajectory are based on the ranking of each of the two or more suggested characters, wherein the ranking is based on the likelihood that each of the two or more suggested characters are the desired handwritten character; and receiving selection information indicating which of the two or more suggested characters represents the desired handwritten character.
7. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising displaying a live video stream of the at least a portion of the user with the trajectory on the display device.