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Hacking the Xbox 360 Kinect is all about baby steps on the way to what
could ultimately amount to some pretty useful homebrew. Here's a good
example cooked up by some kids at the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces
Group attempting to redefine the human-machine interactive experience.
DepthJS is a system that makes Javascript talk to Microsoft's Kinect
in order to navigate web pages, among other things. Remember, it's not
that making wild, arm-waving gestures is the best way to navigate a
web site, it's just a demonstration that you can. Let's hope that the
hacking communinity picks up the work and evolves it into a multitouch
remote control plugin for our home theater PCs. Boxee, maybe you can
lend a hand?
Update: If you're willing to step outside of the developer-friendly
borders of open-source software then you'll want to check out
Evoluce's gesture solution based on the company's Multitouch Input
Management (MIM) driver for Kinect. The most impressive part is its
support for simultaneous multitouch and multiuser control of
applications (including those using Flash and Java) running on a
Windows 7 PC. Evoluce promises to release sofware "soon" to bridge
Kinect and Windows 7. Until then be sure to check both of the
impressive videos after the break.
[Thanks, Leakcim13]
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