Friday, July 22, 2011

Experimenting with Kinect


This Peter Wayner article from the New York Times of July 20th details how the hacker-friendly Kinect is being adapted for artistic uses and as a unique home amusement. Kinect’s cameras collect body movements in three dimensions. This could create an opportunity for adapted game playing. Various software helps non-programmers easily create visual or sound feedback environments operated by gestures and movements. It is also possible to do keyboard activities using gestures instead.

Link to this article: nytimes.com/2011/07/21/technology/personaltech/kinect-hacking-finds-a-wider-crowd.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Related New York Times article:
nytimes.com/2010/11/22/technology/22hack.html

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