I can still remember that day when I was helping a friend to find a topic for her thesis, then I came across with a lot of related materials regarding “human-user-interface” and to deal with this project, you need to have a very-sophisticated camera (sensor camera) so it will be the one to calculate your gestures and have it render on your computer as an output for different interfaces. That was 10 years ago, and you can see my surprise when Microsoft revealed Kinect last year (Natal) and all of the details that’s being clamored to have this HUI became a reality– was now possible in this one piece of motion-based video game peripheral. So far, its like a dream come true for hackers to see the open-source Kinect program to control it. Something that makes Microsoft delighted as well. Today, it gets even better!
As some of you may remember, Kinect is now the toy of some of our benevolent MIT students. Apparently, cats from MIT Media Lab Fluid Interface have found a way to create a system (DepthJS) that makes JS language command Kinect to do all sort of things and that means leveraging any Javascript programs to do its bidding for Kinect. So their first project for today is none other than, Gesture Browser on Windows 7. Check out the video
Combine this with multitouch, and refine it with more complex programs and we may really find that day whereas you can control your computer with just a flick from your finger!
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cool, but not practical. you can’t click links, you have to use your both your arms in retardedly huge motions to make things happen, when you could easily use a multitouch trackpad. the only thing i found impressive was when 2 people did something at the same time (change the size of pictures…), but i mean having to stay perfectly rigid just to use it makes it pretty useless