Microsoft announces the release of it’s Kinect SDK. This allows the use of the Kinect HCI to be used on computers (Windows only). The video on the link shows some pretty amazing (but non-mainstream) labs. I would have loved to see someone use this along with a 3D monitor…
While the concept is great, I think we are at least a couple of Kinect generations away from the Spielbergian ‘Minority Report’ vision. The Kinect simply does not have the resolution to identify individual fingers and subtle 3D movements.
I cannot really imagine a scientist standing in front of a really large screen and waving her arms about to try to manipulate a 3D model of the DNA – or an Air Traffic Controller doing a dance routine trying to manage a 3D air control model.
BUT… this is a step in the right direction… a new way to interface with computing devices
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